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1999 SESSION
SB 1263 Academic Opportunities Pilot Program.
Introduced by: Benjamin J. Lambert III | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
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.
FULL TEXT
- 01/21/99 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 991082693 pdf
- 02/04/99 Senate: Committee substitute printed 991120693-S1 pdf
- 02/19/99 House: Committee substitute printed 991136693-H1 pdf
- 03/04/99 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1263ER) pdf
- 04/01/99 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0426) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/21/99 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 991082693
- 01/21/99 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/22/99 Senate: Assigned to Ed. & Health sub-committee: Public Education
- 02/04/99 Senate: Committee substitute printed 991120693-S1
- 02/04/99 Senate: Reported from Ed. & H. with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/99 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/99 Senate: Read second time
- 02/08/99 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/08/99 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 991120693-S1
- 02/08/99 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - comm. sub. 991120693-S1
- 02/08/99 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/99 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/99 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/99 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/99 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/10/99 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/10/99 House: Read first time
- 02/10/99 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/12/99 House: Assigned to Education sub-committee: 3
- 02/19/99 House: Reported from Education with substitute (21-Y 1-N)
- 02/19/99 House: Committee substitute printed 991136693-H1
- 02/22/99 House: Read second time
- 02/23/99 House: Read third time
- 02/23/99 House: Committee substitute agreed to 991136693-H1
- 02/23/99 House: Engrossed by House - com. sub. 991136693-H1
- 02/23/99 House: Passed House with substitute (95-Y 1-N)
- 02/23/99 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (95-Y 1-N)
- 02/25/99 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/25/99 Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/99 Senate: VOTE: CONCUR HOUSE SUBSTITUTE (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/04/99 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1263ER)
- 03/12/99 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/12/99 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/15/99 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/25/99 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 426 (effective 7/1/99)
- 04/01/99 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0426)