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SB 1127 Standards of Quality; career and technical education.

Introduced by: Thomas K. Norment, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Standards of Quality; career and technical education. Expands the current Standards of Quality (SOQ) requirement that local school boards provide career and technical education programs to require school boards to establish as a priority the provision of those career and technical education courses for which verified units of credit may be earned through passage of a Standards of Learning assessment or through relevant industry certification or state licensure examinations as provided in Board of Education regulations.

Standard 3 of the SOQ permits the Board of Education "to provide, in the requirements for the verified units of credit stipulated for obtaining the standard or advanced studies diploma, that appropriate and relevant industry certification or state licensure examinations may be substituted for correlated Standards of Learning examinations. The Board may also provide that students completing career and technical education programs designed to enable such students to pass such industry certification examinations or state licensure examinations may be awarded, upon obtaining satisfactory scores on such industry certification or licensure examinations, the appropriate verified units of credit for one or more career and technical education classes into which relevant Standards of Learning for various classes taught at the same level have been integrated."

The Board of Education adopted Guidelines for Awarding Differentiated Numbers of Verified Credit for Career and Technical Education Certification and Licensure Examinations on June 27, 2002. According to Superintendent's Memo No. 45 (July 12, 2002), the guidelines state that "students who pass a board-approved certification or licensure examination would earn one or two student-selected verified credits in career and technical education, depending on the course of study taken in preparation for the examination. The division superintendent or his/her designee will determine whether an individual student earns one or two verified credits for each examination passed based on the application of Board of Education guidelines and criteria."

Currently, verified units of credit may be earned through a variety of industry certifications and licenses, such as those for Air Conditioning Installation, Automotive Technician, Certified Computer Service Technician, Certified Internet Webmaster Application Developer, Nurse Aide, School Bus Technician, Cosmetologist, and Real Estate Salesperson.


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