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SB 1263 Academic Opportunities Pilot Program.

Introduced by: Benjamin J. Lambert III | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

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Academic Opportunities Pilot Program. Creates the Academic Opportunities Pilot Program to provide a model for school divisions to explore innovative options and creative instructional programs for the education of secondary school students, within the same facility, who are (i) educationally at-risk, (ii) assigned to the regular instructional program, (iii) identified as gifted or talented or enrolled in advanced placement or honors classes, (iv) identified as having special needs, (v) over-age and for whom the regular instructional program is inappropriate, (vi) enrolled in vocational and technical education programs, or (vii) have been suspended, excluded, or expelled from school attendance. The Board of Education is required to promulgate regulations for the implementation of the Program, which shall be administered by the Department of Education. The regulations must require that school boards offer two or more instructional program components in the same facility. The Program will consist of no more than five pilot projects located throughout Virginia; the projects must comply with the Standards of Quality, the Standards of Learning, and the Standards of Accreditation. Upon the appropriation for funds to support the Program, grants must be awarded on a competitive basis, through the request for proposal process. Projects must comply with federal and state laws and regulations which govern various instructional programs. The measure expires on July 1, 2004.


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