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2024 SESSION
HB 535 Early childhood care and education; comprehensive review of certain findings and recommendations.
Introduced by: Karen Keys-Gamarra | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Division of Early Childhood Care and Education; Department of Education; comprehensive review of certain findings and recommendations relating to the quality of early childhood care and education in the Commonwealth; report. Requires the Division of Early Childhood Care and Education of the Department of Education, in consultation with the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation and such other stakeholders as it deems appropriate, to (i) conduct a comprehensive review of the findings and recommendations contained in the 2017 report of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, Improving Virginia's Early Childhood Development Programs, to determine what barriers, gaps, and deficiencies continue to exist in the provision of high-quality early childhood education and care in the Commonwealth, with a particular focus on gaps and deficiencies in the ongoing monitoring of Virginia Preschool Initiative program quality, including the collection and analysis of data relating to outcomes and kindergarten readiness, and (ii) report its findings and any associated policy recommendations to the Board of Education, the Governor, and the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2024.
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HISTORY
- 01/08/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101851D
- 01/08/24 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/19/24 House: Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood
- 01/31/24 House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 by voice vote
- 02/05/24 House: Continued to 2025 in Education by voice vote