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2024 SESSION


CHAPTER 623
An Act to direct the Board of Education to develop and adopt policies relating to supporting Students with Limited and/or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE) in staying in and graduating from high school.
[S 433]
Approved April 8, 2024

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. The Board of Education shall develop and adopt policies relating to supporting Students with Limited and/or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE students) in staying in and graduating from, or otherwise completing, high school in the Commonwealth. In developing such policies, the Board shall develop a formula for calculating high school drop-out rates and a formula for calculating high school graduation rates that do not include in such calculations any SLIFE student who dropped out if such student had not yet been enrolled in a public high school in the Commonwealth for at least two semesters.