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Senate Committee on Education and Health
Subcommittee Public Education

Carrico (Chairman), Dunnavant, Garrett, Howell, Locke

Clerk: Patty Lung
Staff: Thomas Stevens, Ryan Brimmer
Date of Meeting: February 25, 2016
Time and Place: 30 Minutes After Adjournment - 3rd Fl. East Conf. Room

H.B. 46

Patron: Greason

Secretary of Education; establishment of School Readiness Committee. Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a School Readiness Committee with the first goal of addressing the development and alignment of an effective professional development and credentialing system for the early childhood education workforce in the Commonwealth, including the (i) development of a competency-based professional development pathway for practitioners who teach children birth to age five in both public and private early childhood education programs; (ii) consideration of articulation agreements between associate and baccalaureate degree programs; (iii) refinement of teacher licensure and education programs to address competencies specific to early childhood development; (iv) alignment of existing professional development funding streams; and (v) development of innovative approaches to increasing accessibility, availability, affordability, and accountability of the Commonwealth's workforce development system for early childhood education teachers and providers.

H.B. 381

Patron: Greason

Children with disabilities; alternative means to demonstrate achievement of the Standards of Learning. Requires the Board of Education to prescribe alternative means for children with disabilities who meet criteria established by the Board to demonstrate achievement of the Standards of Learning.

H.B. 894

Patron: Greason

Standards of Learning Innovation Committee; membership. Requires that the membership of the Standards of Learning Innovation Committee include at least one representative of a four-year public institution of higher education and at least one representative of a two-year public institution of higher education and specifies that the business representative or representatives on the Committee shall represent the business community. The bill also staggers the terms of legislative members and nonlegislative citizen members. The bill contains an emergency clause.

EMERGENCY