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2022 SESSION
HB 221 STEM+C; included in Standards of Learning, Bd. of Education to incorporate certain provisions.
Introduced by: Glenn R. Davis | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
STEM+C; Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board. Adds science, technology, engineering, mathematics and computing (STEM+C), which includes real-world, interdisciplinary, and computational instruction and preparation of students in STEM+C, to the list of topics that shall be included in the Standards of Learning for the Commonwealth. The bill also directs the Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board to develop and submit to the Board of Education (i) a rubric that shall be used by the Board of Education in setting out what factors permit a school to be defined as a STEM school and (ii) recommendations for the Board to create a measurement for quality of STEM programming in general education instruction. The bill also directs the Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board to draft and report to the Department of Education proposed common language and terminology that better defines the basic literacies employed in STEM+C as methodological approaches to solving universal human challenges and, as essential, generalizable and transferable literacy toward the application of skills and content needed to solve those challenges. The bill also directs the Department of Education, based on such proposed language and terminology and no later than December 1, 2022, to recommend finalized language and terminology to the Board of Education. The bill clarifies that nothing in the foregoing provisions of the bill shall be construed to establish any new course or credit requirements for students.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103909D pdf | impact statement
- 02/14/22 House: Printed as engrossed 22103909D-E pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House amendments adopted
HISTORY
- 01/10/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103909D
- 01/10/22 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/28/22 House: Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood/Innovation
- 02/02/22 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/22 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/07/22 House: Reported from Education with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/22 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/07/22 House: Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
- 02/09/22 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/22 House: Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/22 House: Read first time
- 02/14/22 House: Read second time
- 02/14/22 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/14/22 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB221E
- 02/14/22 House: Printed as engrossed 22103909D-E
- 02/15/22 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/22 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/16/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/24/22 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/22 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 03/02/22 Senate: Continued to 2023 in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 1-N)