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2017 SESSION
HB 936 Students, certain, with limited English proficiency; Board shall make provision in its regulations.
Introduced by: David J. Toscano | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Certain students with limited English proficiency; standard diploma; credit flexibility. Requires the Board of Education to make provision in its regulations for flexibility for any student with limited English proficiency to earn the credits required for a diploma. The bill requires such flexibility to permit local school divisions to award credit to such students who have failed reading, writing, or mathematics Standards of Learning assessments by a narrow margin, as defined by the Board.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/16 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16102198D pdf | impact statement
- 02/10/16 House: Committee substitute printed 16105357D-H1 pdf | impact statement
HISTORY
- 01/12/16 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16102198D
- 01/12/16 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/19/16 House: Assigned Education sub: Education Innovation
- 02/09/16 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (9-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/16 House: Reported from Education with substitute (16-Y 5-N)
- 02/10/16 House: Committee substitute printed 16105357D-H1
- 02/11/16 House: Read first time
- 02/12/16 House: Read second time
- 02/12/16 House: Committee substitute agreed to 16105357D-H1
- 02/12/16 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB936H1
- 02/15/16 House: Read third time and passed House (69-Y 30-N)
- 02/15/16 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (69-Y 30-N)
- 02/16/16 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/16/16 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/18/16 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 02/25/16 Senate: Continued to 2017 in Education and Health (10-Y 5-N)
- 12/02/16 Senate: Left in Education and Health