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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Public Education

Carrico (Chairman), Howell, Locke, Smith, Cosgrove

Clerk: Patty Lung
Staff: Thomas Stevens, Ryan Brimmer
Date of Meeting: February 9, 2015
Time and Place: 9:00 a.m. - 3rd Floor East Conf. Room

H.B. 1615 Standards of Learning; integrated assessments to include multiple subject areas.

Patron: Greason

Standards of Learning; integrated assessments. Permits the end-of-course and end-of-grade Standards of Learning assessments prescribed by the Board of Education to be integrated to include multiple subject areas.

H.B. 1616 Career and technical education; alignment with national certification requirements.

Patron: Greason

Career and technical education; alignment with national certification requirements. Requires each sequence of courses constituting a career and technical education program to be aligned with national certification requirements, if such requirements exist for the sequence of courses.

H.B. 1674 School accreditation; review of status by Board of Education.

Patron: Greason

School accreditation frequency. Eliminates the requirement for the Board of Education to annually review the accreditation status of public elementary and secondary schools and permits the Board to review the accreditation status of schools annually, once every two years, or once every three years. The bill requires the frequency of such review to be based on criteria established by the Board that take into consideration each school's accreditation history, most recent accreditation status, and performance on metrics contained in the School Performance Report Card. The bill requires the Board to review in the subsequent the accreditation status of any school that fails to achieve full accreditation. The bill requires Standards of Learning assessments scores to continue to be reported on the School Performance Report Card annually, regardless of accreditation frequency.

H.B. 2318 High school graduation rate; Board of Education's formula for assessing rates.

Patron: Orrock

High school graduation rate formula; Standards of Accreditation; exclusions. Requires the Board of Education's formula for assessing high school graduation rates, as applied to the Standards of Accreditation, to exclude from rates of on-time graduates each student who fails to graduate on time based on extenuating circumstances that are outside of the control of the local school board, as determined by the Board. Such provisions has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2016. The bill requires the Board to report to the chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health on the Board's progress towards updating its formula for collecting, analyzing, and reporting high school graduation and dropout data no later than December 1, 2015.