Elementary Schools
Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary school students, certain; excused absences. [HB-1022]
Certain public elementary and secondary school students; excused absences; attendance at pow wow. Provides that, subject to guidelines established by the Department of Education, any student who is a member of a state-recognized or federally recognized tribal nation that is headquartered in the Commonwealth and who is absent from school to attend such tribal nation's pow wow gathering shall be granted one excused absence per academic year, provided that the parent of such student provides to the student's school advance notice of such absence in
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Keam
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0233) on 04/08/2022
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Gettr Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; student citizenship skills, etc. [HB-781]
Public elementary and secondary schools; student citizenship skills; certain instructional policies prohibited; parental rights; disclosures; penalties; other remedies. Requires the Board of Education to incorporate into each relevant Standard of Learning and associated curriculum framework a requirement that each student demonstrate the understanding of, among other concepts, the fundamental moral, political, and intellectual foundations of the American experiment in self-government, as well as the history, qualities, traditions, and features of
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Sponsored by: Rep. Wren Williams
Left In Education on 02/15/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Annual public elementary and secondary school safety audits; creation or review of school building. [HB-741]
Annual public elementary and secondary school safety audits; creation or review of school building floor plans required. Requires each local school board, as part of each annual school safety audit, to create a detailed and accurate floor plan for each public school building in the local school division or certify that the existing floor plan for each such school is sufficiently detailed and accurate but provides that such floor plan may be withheld from public disclosure. Annual public elementary and secondary school safety audits; creation or
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Bell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0057) on 04/01/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Public elementary or secondary school student; moral and character education, etc. [HB-787]
Teaching or promotion of certain concepts in public elementary and secondary education; declaration as unlawful and discriminatory practice. Declares it an unlawful and discriminatory practice for any local school board or employee or contractor thereof to teach any public elementary or secondary school student to believe or promote to any such student as valid the belief that (i) one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex; (ii) an individual, by virtue of the individual's race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dave LaRock
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (9-y 6-n) on 03/03/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; agreements to establish opportunity classrooms. [HB-533]
Public elementary and secondary schools; agreements to establish opportunity classrooms. Requires each school board to enter into an agreement, upon request, with a public elementary or secondary school teacher or a group of such teachers in a local school division who represents more than 20 students to establish an opportunity classroom, which the bill defines as a classroom in which a curriculum in English, mathematics, science, history and social science, and any other subject area, as set forth in such agreement, is offered that is different
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Sponsored by: Rep. Amanda Batten
Left In Education on 02/15/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary school students; ability to pay for meals and school meal debt. [HB-583]
Public elementary and secondary school students; ability to pay for meals and school meal debt; extracurricular school activities. Requires each school board to adopt policies that prohibit the school board or any school board employee from denying a student the opportunity to participate in any extracurricular school activity because the student cannot pay for a meal at school or owes a school meal debt.
Sponsored by: Sen. Danica Roem
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0686) on 04/11/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Elementary and secondary education, public; at-risk add-on funds. [HB-418]
Public elementary and secondary education; at-risk add-on funds; Reading Recovery. Removes Reading Recovery from the list of programs and initiatives for which school boards may use at-risk add-on funds. Public elementary and secondary education; at-risk add-on funds; Reading Recovery. Removes Reading Recovery from the list of programs and initiatives for which school boards may use at-risk add-on funds.
Sponsored by: Sen. Suhas Subramanyam
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0061) on 04/01/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Public elementary and secondary schools; competitive compensation for certain positions. [SB-157]
Competitive compensation for certain positions in public elementary and secondary schools. Declares it the goal of the Commonwealth that its public school teachers and all other individuals employed in Standards of Quality-funded positions be compensated at a rate that is competitive, defined as at or above the national average salary for the position, in order to attract and keep highly qualified individuals in such positions. The bill requires state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act in a sum sufficient to fund a
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Sponsored by: Sen. Ghazala Hashmi
Continued To 2023 In Finance And Appropriations (14-y 2-n) on 02/09/2022
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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Through-year growth assessment system; BOE to seek & incorporate input & suggestions into system. [HB-197]
Public elementary and middle schools; student growth assessments. Requires the Board of Education, in implementing the through-year growth assessment system for the administration of reading and mathematics assessments in grades three through eight, to seek input and suggestions from each interested local school division in the Commonwealth regarding ways in which the administration of such assessments and the reporting of assessment results can be improved, and shall, to the extent possible, incorporate such input and suggestions into the through-year
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Webert
Referred To Committee On Education And Health on 04/07/2022
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Virginia 2021 Special I
School nurses; nursing services in a public elementary or secondary school. [HB-1736]
School nurses; nomenclature. Prohibits any individual who provides nursing services in a public elementary or secondary school as a school board employee or through a contract with the local health department from using the title of school nurse unless such individual is a registered nurse who possesses an active license to practice in the Commonwealth. School nurses; nomenclature. Prohibits any individual who provides nursing services in a public elementary or secondary school as a school board employee or through a contract with the local health
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Failed To Report (defeated) In Education And Health (6-y 8-n) on 02/18/2021
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Virginia 2021 Special I
Public elementary and secondary schools; administration of undesignated stock albuterol inhalers. [HB-2019]
Public elementary and secondary schools; possession and administration of undesignated stock albuterol inhalers and valved holding chambers. Requires each local school board to adopt and implement policies for the possession and administration of undesignated stock albuterol inhalers and valved holding chambers in every public school in the local school division, to be administered by any school nurse, employee of the school board, employee of a local governing body, or employee of a local health department who is authorized by the local health
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Approved By Governor-chapter 508 (effective - 1/1/22) on 03/31/2021
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Maine 127th Legislature
An Act To Allow a School Administrative Unit To Implement a Firearm Safety Education Program for Elementary School Students [HB-128]
An Act To Allow a School Administrative Unit To Implement a Firearm Safety Education Program for Elementary School Students
Sponsored by: Sen. Stacey Guerin
Pursuant To Joint Rule 310.3 Placed In Legislative Files (dead) on 04/01/2015
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Michigan 97th Legislature
A resolution to encourage elementary schools throughout Michigan to incorporate the gun safety curriculum found in the Michigan Model for Health program and to encourage all schools to incorporate gun safety programs at all grade levels. [HR-104]
A resolution to encourage elementary schools throughout Michigan to incorporate the gun safety curriculum found in the Michigan Model for Health program and to encourage all schools to incorporate gun safety programs at all grade levels.
Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Dianda
Introduced By Representative Bruce Rendon on 04/23/2013
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Maine 126th Legislature
Resolve, To Create a Working Group To Identify Elementary School and Middle School Applied Learning Opportunities [SB-370]
Resolve, To Create a Working Group To Identify Elementary School and Middle School Applied Learning Opportunities
Sponsored by: Sen. Geoffrey Gratwick
Finally Passed, In Concurrence. on 05/01/2013
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
School boards; annual report on pupil/teacher ratios in elementary, middle, etc., school classrooms. [HB-2174]
School boards; pupil/teacher ratios; public report. Requires each school board to annually report to the public the actual pupil/teacher ratios in middle school and high school by school for the current school year.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0321) on 03/13/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
School personnel; staffing ratios; school nurses. [HB-1757]
School personnel; staffing ratios; school nurses. Requires each local school board to employ at least one full-time equivalent school nurse position in each elementary school, middle school, and high school in the local school division and at least one full-time equivalent school nurse position per 1,000 students in grades kindergarten through 12.
Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Left In Appropriations on 02/08/2017
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Student vision screenings; requirements for certain students. [HB-1408]
Student vision screenings. Requires (i) the principal of each public elementary school to cause the vision of students in kindergarten and grade two or grade three to be screened unless certain exceptions apply and (ii) the principal of each public middle school and high school to cause the vision of students in grade seven and grade 10 to be screened unless certain exceptions apply and permits any such screening to be conducted by a qualified nonprofit vision health organization that uses a digital photoscreening method pursuant to a comprehensive
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Kaye Kory
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0312) on 03/13/2017