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2016 SESSION
16106315DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 22.1-253.13:10 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 22.1-253.13:10. Standards of Learning Innovation Committee.
The Secretary of Education, upon receiving recommendations for
appointments from the Virginia Parent Teacher Association, Virginia Education
Association, Virginia School Boards Association, Virginia Association of
Secondary School Principals, Virginia Association of Elementary School
Principals, Virginia Association of School Superintendents, Virginia State
Reading Association, Virginia School Counselor Association, and Virginia
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, shall establish and appoint
nonlegislative citizen members from each of the specified groups to
the Standards of Learning Innovation Committee (Committee). The Committee shall
also include consist of (i) four members of the Virginia House of
Delegates, appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates; (ii) two
three members of the Virginia Senate, appointed by the Senate Committee on
Rules on the recommendation of the Chair of the Senate Committee on Education
and Health; and (iii) at least one (iii) parent of a currently enrolled
public school student, (iv) public elementary school teacher, (v)
public secondary school teacher, (vi) public secondary school guidance
counselor, (vii) school board member, (viii) public school
principal, (ix) division superintendent, (x) curriculum and
instruction specialist, (xi) higher education faculty member, (xii)
business representative of a four-year public institution of higher
education in the Commonwealth, representative of a two-year public institution
of higher education in the Commonwealth, and representative, of
the business community in the Commonwealth and such other stakeholders as
the Secretary deems appropriate, appointed by the Secretary. Members of
the Committee should reflect geographic diversity and rural and urban school
systems as far as practicable. The Superintendent of Public Instruction, the
President of the Board of Education or his designee, and the Secretary of
Education or his designee shall serve ex officio. All other members shall be
appointed for terms of two years. The Committee, under the direction of the
Secretary, shall periodically make recommendations to the Board of Education
and the General Assembly on (a) the Standards of Learning assessments, (b)
authentic individual student growth measures, (c) alignment between the
Standards of Learning and assessments and the School Performance Report Card,
and (d) ideas on innovative teaching in the classroom. An affirmative vote
by a majority of the legislative members in attendance and a majority of
nonlegislative members in attendance shall be required for the Committee to
adopt any recommendations. The Board of Education shall review the
recommendations of the Committee and submit to the Chairmen of the House
Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health, in
advance of the next regular session of the General Assembly, any comments on
such recommendations that the Board of Education deems appropriate.
2. That appointments of nonlegislative citizen members made by the Secretary of Education after the effective date of this act shall be staggered such that half or approximately half of the nonlegislative citizen members shall serve terms of three years and the other half or approximate half of the nonlegislative citizen members shall serve terms of two years. After such staggering of terms, nonlegislative citizen members shall serve terms of two years.
3. That appointments of legislative members made after the effective date of this act shall be staggered as follows: two members of the Virginia House of Delegates for a term of three years appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates; two members of the Virginia House of Delegates for a term of two years appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates; two members of the Virginia Senate for a term of three years appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules on the recommendation of the Chair of the Senate Committee on Education and Health; and one member of the Virginia Senate for a term of two years appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules on the recommendation of the Chair of the Senate Committee on Education and Health. After such staggering of terms, legislative members shall serve terms of two years.
4. That an emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.