SB 933

Abstract

Department of Education; common statewide definition; "students with limited or interrupted formal education." Requires the Department of Education to develop and adopt a common statewide definition for the term "students with limited or interrupted formal education" and to require local school divisions to report on the number of students who fall under such definition as part of the required data collection and reporting on average daily membership for the purposes of documenting any changes in such numbers over time. The bill requires that theBoard of Education evaluate the supports and programs available to "students with limited or interrupted formal education" in local school divisions to determine whether the calculations for the school quality indicators within the Board's Regulations Establishing the Standards for Accrediting Public Schools in Virginia are appropriate or whether changes in methodology could be made to more comprehensively measure the academic and nonacademic achievement of such student population.

Department of Education; common statewidedefinition; "students with limited or interrupted formal education."Requires the Department of Education to develop and adopt a commonstatewide definition for the term "students with limited or interruptedformal education" and to require school boards to report on the numberof students who fall under such definition as part of the requireddata collection and reporting on average daily membership for thepurposes of documenting any changes in such numbers over time andallowing for comparisons of such numbers across local school divisions.The bill provides that in developing and adopting such common statewidedefinition, the Department of Education shall consider and may adoptexisting definitions of "students with limited or interrupted formaleducation."