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2020 SPECIAL SESSION I

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HB 5008 School closure; education vouchers, funding for home instruction, etc.

Introduced by: Mark L. Cole (by request) | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

School closure; education vouchers; emergency. Requires, in the event that a public school in the Commonwealth is closed for in-person instruction for 30 or more days during a school year, the parent of an enrolled student who withdraws his child from attendance at such school to receive, upon request, an education voucher in an amount equal to a prorated share of the applicable Standards of Quality per-pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes and apportioned to the school division, including the per-pupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid and any state per-pupil share of special education funding for which the child is eligible, to cover the expenses of providing home instruction or tuition and fees at a nonpublic school for such student for the remainder of the school year. The bill permits the Department of Education to establish rules, regulations, or procedures for the issuance of such education vouchers. The bill contains an emergency clause.


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