Elementary Schools
Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Public elementary & secondary school bldgs.; standards for maintenance & operations, etc. [HB-2307]
Board of Education; standards for the maintenance and operations, renovation, and new construction of public elementary and secondary school buildings. Requires the Board of Education to make recommendations to the General Assembly for amendments to the Standards of Quality to establish standards for the maintenance and operations, renovation, and new construction of public elementary and secondary school buildings. The bill requires such recommendations to include standards for the percentage of the current replacement value of a public school
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Sponsored by: Rep. Shelly Simonds
Left In Education on 02/07/2023
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Public elementary or secondary schools, certain; parent liaison position. [HB-2149]
Certain public elementary schools; parent liaison position. Certain public elementary schools; parent liaison position. Requires a local school board to employ, in any public elementary or secondary school in which at least 20 percent of enrolled students are identified as members of a single racial or ethnic group that constitutes a minority of the total population of the United States, at least one full-time parent liaison who is also a member of such racial or ethnic group per the first 200 students who are identified as members of such group
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Trauma Learning Modules; DOE & VTSS-RIC to make modifications. [SB-1300]
Department of Education; Virginia Tiered Systems of Supports Research and Implementation Center; Trauma Learning Modules; modifications; report. Directs the Department of Education to collaborate with the Virginia Tiered Systems of Supports Research and Implementation Center (VTSS-RIC) to modify the existing Trauma Learning Modules provided by VTSS-RIC to incorporate (i) the definitions of "childhood trauma" and "trauma-informed" provided in the bill and (ii) information and guidance on concepts including (a) the impacts of childhood trauma on a
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0572) on 03/26/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Public school teachers; SCHEV to study feasibility of offering reduced in-state tuition. [HJR-511]
Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; offering reduced rate in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth to dependents of public elementary and secondary school teachers in the Commonwealth; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study, in collaboration with the Department of Education, the feasibility and efficacy of offering the dependents of public elementary and secondary school teachers in the Commonwealth reduced rate in-state tuition at public institutions
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dan Helmer
Left In Rules on 02/07/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary school teachers; calculations for competitive compensation. [SB-1215]
Department of Education; stakeholder work group; competitive teacher pay; report. Requires the Department of Education to convene a stakeholder work group no later than August 15, 2023, to consider and make recommendations no later than November 1, 2023, on the appropriateness, feasibility, potential fiscal impact, and potential unintended consequences of certain definitions for and calculations of competitive teacher pay. Department of Education; stakeholder work group; competitive teacher pay; report. Requires the Department of Education to convene
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mamie Locke
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0725) on 03/27/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Regulations governing use of seclusion and restrain in schools; applies to school security officers. [HB-1981]
Board of Education; Regulations Governing the Use of Seclusion and Restraint in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools in Virginia; school security officers and school resource officers. Requires the Board of Education's Regulations Governing the Use of Seclusion and Restraint in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools in Virginia to apply to school security officers and school resource officers and requires the Board to make such amendments to such regulations as may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of the bill.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; establishment of opportunity classrooms. [HB-1909]
Public elementary and secondary schools; establishment of opportunity classrooms. Provides that, subject to school board or school administration approval, each local school board shall enter into an agreement to establish an opportunity classroom, or a classroom in which an alternative curriculum is offered, with a requesting party if such party represents more than 20 students and permits such local school board to enter into such an agreement if such requesting party represents fewer than 20 students. The bill provides that a "requesting party"
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Sponsored by: Rep. Amanda Batten
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (10-y 5-n) on 02/16/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Public elementary & secondary school bldgs.; amdmts. to SOQ, standards for maintenance & operations. [SB-1124]
Board of Education; standards for the maintenance and operations, renovation, and new construction of public elementary and secondary school buildings. Requires the Board of Education to make recommendations to the General Assembly for amendments to the Standards of Quality to establish standards for the maintenance and operations, renovation, and new construction of public elementary and secondary school buildings. The bill requires such recommendations to include standards for the percentage of the current replacement value of a public school
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0752) on 04/12/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; certain opportunities for parental involvement. [HB-1803]
Public elementary and secondary schools; certain opportunities for parental involvement. Requires the opportunities for parental involvement required to be provided by each school board to include the opportunity for parents of students enrolled in the local school division to receive advance written or electronic notification of and opt their child out of any speech, presentation, or performance in the relevant school by any outside individual or entity. Public elementary and secondary schools; certain opportunities for parental involvement. Requires
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dave LaRock
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (9-y 6-n) on 02/16/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Public elementary school teachers; length of daily lunch breaks. [HB-1696]
Public elementary school teachers; daily lunch breaks; length. Requires each school board to ensure that all elementary school teachers in its employment are provided one lunch break per school day that is at least 30 minutes in length and unencumbered by any teaching or supervisory duties but that may be shortened or eliminated in the case of a bona fide emergency relating to health or safety.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary school teachers; frequency of certain training activities, report. [HB-1717]
Public elementary and secondary school teachers; certain training activities; frequency; report. Prohibits any public elementary or secondary school teacher from being required to participate more frequently than once every five years in any training relating to the etiology, prevention, transmission modes, and effects of blood-borne pathogens; treating students with seizures and seizure disorders, including information about seizure recognition and related first aid; the appropriate management of student conduct and student offenses in violation
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Sponsored by: Sen. Schuyler VanValkenburg
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Arrests, certain, and convictions of certain individuals; reports to division safety officials. [HB-1704]
Public elementary and secondary schools; reports of certain arrests and convictions; receipt, report, and compilation. Requires each division superintendent to annually designate an employee in the local school division as the division safety official whose duty is to receive all reports required to be made pursuant to relevant law from (i) every state official or agency and every sheriff, police officer, or other local law-enforcement officer or conservator of the peace having the power to arrest for a felony upon arresting a person who is known
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Bell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0282) on 03/22/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Elementary and secondary schools; participation in female sports, civil cause of action. [SB-962]
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. Bryce Reeves
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (9-y 6-n) on 02/02/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Internet Safety Advisory Council; powers and duties. [HB-1575]
Internet Safety Advisory Council; collaboration, model instructional content, and resources. Permits the Internet Safety Advisory Council (the Council) established by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to collaborate with certain agencies and organizations with expertise in child online safety issues and human trafficking prevention and requires the Council to establish model instructional content on certain student internet safety topics and post on the Department of Education website resources and assistance programs available for any child
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Sponsored by: Rep. Wendell Walker
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0111) on 03/21/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; fundamental right of parents. [HB-1507]
Public elementary and secondary schools; fundamental right of parents. Requires each school board and employee and agent thereof to seek to ensure that the fundamental right of parents in the care and upbringing of their children is recognized and protected and also requires each local school board to provide opportunities for parental involvement in several ways, including providing to parents of students enrolled in the local school division direct access to and an opportunity to review, within a reasonable period of time after the parent so requests,
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Sponsored by: Sen. John McGuire
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (9-y 6-n) on 02/16/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; immunization requirements. [SB-876]
Public elementary and secondary schools; enrollment; immunization requirements. Prohibits any child from being denied admission to school for not receiving a COVID-19 vaccination. The bill also prohibits the State Board of Health from adopting any regulation requiring immunization against COVID-19 for attendance at any public elementary or secondary school.
Sponsored by: Sen. Amanda Chase
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (8-y 6-n 1-a) on 02/02/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; comprehensive school counseling program. [SB-856]
Public elementary and secondary schools; comprehensive school counseling program; development and implementation. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a written plan for a comprehensive school counseling program for the purpose of providing support that meets the mental and emotional health needs of all students and guiding students in academic progress, postsecondary planning, and social-emotional learning. The bill requires each local school board to develop and implement such written plan by the beginning of the 2024–2025
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lionell Spruill
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health With Letter (15-y 0-n) on 01/26/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Parental Choice Education Savings Accounts; established. [SB-823]
Parental Choice Education Savings Accounts. Permits the parent of a public preschool, elementary, or secondary school student who meets certain criteria to apply to the school division in which the student resides for a one-year, renewable Parental Choice Education Savings Account that consists of an amount that is equivalent to a certain percentage of all applicable annual Standards of Quality per pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes and apportioned to the resident school division in which the student resides, including the
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Sponsored by: Sen. Amanda Chase
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (9-y 6-n) on 01/26/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; programs of instruction on mental health education. [SB-818]
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: Sen. Mamie Locke
Failed To Report (defeated) In Education (10-y 12-n) on 02/13/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Elementary schools, etc.; designation of interscholastic, etc., sports, student participation. [HB-1399]
Elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education; interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, and club athletic teams and sports; student participation; certain requirements. Requires each interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic team or sport that is sponsored by a public elementary or secondary school or a public institution of higher education to be expressly designated as one of the following based on each team member's biological sex at birth: (i) for "males," "men," or "boys"; (ii) for "females,"
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Sponsored by: Rep. Marie March
Left In Education on 02/07/2023