Elementary Schools
Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Minors admitted to inpatient treatment; discharge plans. [HB-1017]
Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools. Provides that prior to the discharge of any minor or individual who has been admitted to inpatient treatment and is a student at a public elementary or secondary school, a copy of such minor's or individual's discharge plan shall be provided to the division superintendent and the division safety official in the local school division in which such minor or individual attends such school.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tony Wilt
Read Third Time And Defeated By House (42-y 55-n) on 02/13/2024
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Gettr Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; policies and requirements relating to naloxone. [SB-387]
Public elementary and secondary schools; policies and requirements relating to naloxone. Requires each local school board to develop, in accordance with the guidelines developed by the Department of Health in collaboration with the Department of Education, plans and policies for each public elementary and secondary school relating to opioid overdose prevention and reversal, including (i) the procurement, storage, and maintenance of at least two unexpired doses of naloxone at each such school; (ii) the possession and administration of naloxone by
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Sponsored by: Sen. Stella Pekarsky
Incorporated By Education And Health on 02/01/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; programs of instruction on mental health education. [HB-603]
Public elementary and secondary schools; health instruction, certain topics relating to mental health. Requires health instruction provided to elementary and secondary school students to include certain topics relating to mental health that are enumerated in the bill, including (i) general themes of social and emotional learning, including self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision making, relationship skills, and social awareness; (ii) signs and symptoms of common mental health challenges; and (iii) mental health wellness and healthy
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0812) on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Special education and related services; definitions, utilization of Virginia IEP. [SB-220]
Special education and related services. Makes several changes relating to special education and related services for children with disabilities in public elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth, including requiring (i) the Department of Education to (a) develop, establish, review and update as necessary at least once every five years, and make available to each local school board an IEP writing, facilitation, tracking, and transfer system to be referred to as the Virginia IEP that includes, at a minimum, an IEP template component and
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Sponsored by: Sen. Barbara Favola
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0502) on 04/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; cardiac emergency response plans required. [SB-181]
Public elementary and secondary schools; cardiac emergency response plans required; grant program established. Requires each public elementary or secondary school to develop a cardiac emergency response plan (CERP) that addresses the appropriate use of school personnel to respond to incidents involving an individual who is experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or a similar life-threatening emergency while on school grounds and, in the event that such school has an athletic department or organized athletic program, while attending or participating in
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Sponsored by: Sen. Aaron Rouse
Continued To 2025 In Appropriations By Voice Vote on 03/04/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public elementary school teachers; length of daily lunch breaks. [HB-583]
Public school teachers; daily lunch breaks; data collection; report. Requires the Department of Education to annually collect and present in the Virginia School Survey of Climate and Working Conditions school-level and division-level data on the share of teachers that are provided each working day a lunch break of at least 30 minutes in length and unencumbered by any teaching or supervisory duties. Public school teachers; daily lunch breaks; data collection; report. Requires the Department of Education to annually collect and present in the Virginia
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Hope
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0196) on 03/28/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline, etc. [HB-398]
Public elementary and secondary schools; student discipline; evidence-based restorative disciplinary practices. Prohibits, except in certain cases involving specific offenses enumerated in applicable law or in cases in which the division superintendent or his designee finds that aggravating circumstances, as defined by the Department of Education, exist, any public elementary or secondary school student from being suspended, expelled, or excluded from attendance at school without first considering at least one evidence-based restorative disciplinary
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Elementary and secondary schools; participation in female sports, civil cause of action. [SB-68]
Elementary and secondary schools; athletics; participation in female sports; civil cause of action. Requires each public elementary or secondary school and each private elementary or secondary school that competes in sponsored athletic events against such public schools to designate all interscholastic athletic teams and intramural athletic teams sponsored by such school based on biological sex as follows: (i) for "males," "men," or "boys"; (ii) for "females," "women," or "girls"; or (iii) as "coed" or "mixed" if such team is open to participation
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Peake
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (9-y 6-n) on 02/08/2024
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Maine 131st Legislature
An Act to Expand Maine's High-quality Early Learning and Care for Children by Increasing Public Preschool Opportunities in Communities [SB-1799]
An Act to Expand Maine's High-quality Early Learning and Care for Children by Increasing Public Preschool Opportunities in Communities
Sponsored by: Sen. Teresa Pierce
Passed To Be Enacted, In Concurrence. on 07/26/2023
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Urging The Department Of Education To Start High Schools No Earlier Than 9:00 A.m. And Elementary And Middle Schools No Earlier Than 8:30 A.m. [SR-191]
Urging The Department Of Education To Start High Schools No Earlier Than 9:00 A.m. And Elementary And Middle Schools No Earlier Than 8:30 A.m.
Sponsored by: Sen. Angus McKelvey
Referred To Edu/lbt. on 03/15/2023
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Urging The Department Of Education To Start High Schools No Earlier Than 9:00 A.m. And Elementary And Middle Schools No Earlier Than 8:30 A.m. [SCR-165]
Urging The Department Of Education To Start High Schools No Earlier Than 9:00 A.m. And Elementary And Middle Schools No Earlier Than 8:30 A.m.
Sponsored by: Sen. Angus McKelvey
Referred To Edu/lbt. on 03/15/2023
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Requesting The Department Of Education To Assign School Resource Officers Or Guards To Serve At Each Public Elementary School And State Prekindergarten Program. [SR-140]
Requesting The Department Of Education To Assign School Resource Officers Or Guards To Serve At Each Public Elementary School And State Prekindergarten Program.
Sponsored by: Sen. Kurt Fevella
Referred To Edu. on 03/15/2023
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Requesting The Department Of Education To Contract With A Qualified Nonprofit Organization To Establish Aquatic Safety Education Programs In Certain Department Of Education Schools. [HCR-75]
Requesting The Department Of Education To Contract With A Qualified Nonprofit Organization To Establish Aquatic Safety Education Programs In Certain Department Of Education Schools.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daynette Morikawa
Received From House (hse. Com. No. 498). on 03/31/2023
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Requesting The Department Of Education To Contract With A Qualified Nonprofit Organization To Establish Aquatic Safety Education Programs In Certain Department Of Education Schools. [HR-76]
Requesting The Department Of Education To Contract With A Qualified Nonprofit Organization To Establish Aquatic Safety Education Programs In Certain Department Of Education Schools.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daynette Morikawa
Reported From Edn (stand. Com. Rep. No. 1730) As Amended In Hd 1, Recommending Adoption. on 03/30/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary school teachers; temporary employment, training activities, report. [HB-2457]
Public elementary and secondary school teachers; frequency of certain training activities; length of temporary teacher employment. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school teacher from being required to participate more frequently than once every five years in certain training relating to the appropriate management of student conduct and student offenses in violation of school board policies or relating to secure mandatory test violations. The bill also permits, during the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years, any school board to employ
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Sponsored by: Rep. Amanda Batten
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0641) on 03/26/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Elementary and secondary schools; temporary funding for instructional assistants. [HB-2439]
Elementary and secondary schools; temporary funding for instructional assistants. Directs temporary funding to be provided to each elementary and secondary school identified as an underperforming school, as defined in the bill, for the purpose of hiring instructional assistants to aid and support teachers in providing small group and individualized instruction, meet the various instructional and behavioral needs of students, and reduce teacher workloads.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michelle Lopes-Maldonado
Left In Education on 02/07/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; programs of instruction on mental health education. [HB-2388]
Public elementary and secondary schools; programs of instruction; mental health education; curriculum guidelines; instruction required. Requires each public elementary, middle, and high school to provide at each grade level, in addition to health instruction, an additional age-appropriate course of instruction on mental health. The bill directs the Board of Education to develop mental health curriculum guidelines for an age-appropriate, sequential mental health curriculum for each grade level and requires such curriculum guidelines to include instruction
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Left In Education on 02/07/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; automated external defibrillators required. [SB-1453]
Public elementary and secondary schools; automated external defibrillators required. Requires each local school board to develop a plan for the placement, care, and use of an automated external defibrillator in every public elementary and secondary school in the local school division and to place an automated external defibrillator in every public elementary and secondary school in the local school division. Under current law, such a plan is optional and there is no requirement for each school board to place an automated external defibrillator in
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jeremy McPike
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0767) on 04/12/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Virginia College Savings Plan; hybrid schools, classification. [SB-1429]
Virginia College Savings Plan; hybrid schools; classification. Provides that the Virginia College Savings Plan shall consider any hybrid public-private elementary or secondary school to be a public elementary or secondary school or a private elementary or secondary school such that a beneficiary's account under a qualified tuition program established and maintained by the Plan may be used to cover up to $10,000 in expenses in any taxable year for tuition in connection with the beneficiary's enrollment or attendance at such a hybrid school as permitted
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Suetterlein
Passed By Indefinitely In Finance And Appropriations (11-y 5-n) on 02/01/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; threat assessment team members, training requirement. [SB-1359]
Public elementary and secondary schools; threat assessment team members; training requirement. Requires new threat assessment team members at each public elementary and secondary school to complete initial threat assessment training and all threat assessment team members to complete refresher training every three years.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bryce Reeves
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0295) on 03/23/2023