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SB 683 High school diploma; Board of Education to establish requirements thereof for students with LEP.

Introduced by: Charles J. Colgan | H. Russell Potts, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

High school diploma requirements and students with limited English proficiency. Requires the Board and Department of Education to collect certain statewide data on Virginia's public school students with limited English proficiency and school division programs for such LEP students, analyze the data, and recommend steps to resolve the issues relating to the requirements for obtaining a high school diploma and students with limited English proficiency that will retain high academic standards and accountability, while assisting such students in their endeavors to obtain an education and to become productive Virginians.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Modified standard--English proficiency diploma. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing requirements for a high school diploma, to provide in the requirements for obtaining the modified standard--English proficiency diploma that students who first entered Virginia schools on or after September 2002 at the high school level with limited English proficiency or unable to speak any English and who are unlikely to meet the credit requirements for a standard diploma may satisfy the following requirements: (i) successfully complete courses that may be counted as standard units of credit towards a standard diploma; (ii) earn verified units of credit for any four of such successfully completed courses by achieving passing scores on any four standards of learning assessments relating to such courses; and (iii) be allowed to take the standards of learning assessment for eighth grade English and, if successfully achieving the score required of eighth graders, be allowed to substitute such satisfactory performance on such eighth grade English standards of learning test in lieu of achieving satisfactory performance on the standards of learning assessments for eleventh grade English.