HB 495

Abstract

Board of Education; Standards of Quality; Standardsof School Safety. Requires the Board of Education, in collaborationwith the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety and such otherstakeholders as it deems appropriate, to establish pursuant to regulationthe Standards of School Safety for the purpose of assessing schoolsafety in each local school division in the Commonwealth and eachschool building therein based on such objective, quantifiable measuresof safety as the Board deems appropriate. The bill requires the Boardto incorporate compliance with the Standards of School Safety asa school and school division accountability measure for the purposes of the Standards of Accreditation.