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HJ 721 Study; fiscal impact of Standards of Accreditation.

Introduced by: Flora D. Crittenden | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Study; fiscal impact of Standards of Accreditation. Establishes a joint subcommittee to examine the impact of the Standards of Learning (SOL) and the Standards of Accreditation (SOA) on students and localities. The joint subcommittee shall consider, among other things, current funding levels for meeting the SOA; specific needs and challenges identified by Virginia school divisions in striving to achieve and maintain accreditation; the varying fiscal capacities and demographics of the Commonwealth’s school divisions; the constitutional, fiscal, and policy implications of maintaining separate regulations and statutes imposing minimum standards for public schools in Virginia; the effect of the new standards on educationally at-risk students, teachers, and schools in urban and small rural school divisions; and such other issues as it deems appropriate.


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