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2023 SESSION


CHAPTER 480
An Act to require the Department of Education to convene a stakeholder work group to examine and make recommendations on reducing barriers to access to paid work-based learning experiences for English language learner students.
[S 1430]
Approved March 24, 2023

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. The Department of Education shall convene a stakeholder work group to make recommendations on reducing barriers to and improving the access of paid work-based learning experiences for English language learner students. In making its recommendations, the work group shall (i) identify best practices that are currently implemented in local school divisions in the Commonwealth to overcome barriers impeding the access of English language learner students to paid work-based learning experiences and (ii) consider strategies to further improve the access of English language learner students to paid work-based learning experiences. The work group shall submit its recommendations to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than November 1, 2023.