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2016 SESSION
16105799DBe 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 shall report any recommendations of the Committee
the Board adopts or endorses to the General Assembly.
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.