Virginia Senate Bill 72

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on December 28 2023 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-08 - Continued to 2025 in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
Pending: Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Board of Education; creation and maintenance of Virginia Parent Data Portal. Requires the Board of Education, on or before July 1, 2025, to create and maintain the Virginia Parent Data Portal that, among other things, (i) displays individualized student assessment data on all state-supported assessments, as that term is defined in the bill, (a) in a format that shows both current and cumulative data over time and (b) within 45 days of a state-supported assessment window closing for each state-supported assessment; (ii) provides a description of the purpose of each state-supported assessment, an explanation of how to interpret student data on each state-supported assessment, and a comparison of a student's performance on each state-supported assessment with the performance of the student's school, the student's school division, and the Commonwealth; (iii) is viewable from a mobile device in addition to a desktop computer; and (iv) provides functionality to enable school division personnel to manage and restrict user access to students and their parents. Board of Education; creation and maintenance of Virginia Parent Data Portal. Requires the Board of Education, on or before July 1, 2025, to create and maintain the Virginia Parent Data Portal that, among other things, (i) displays individualized student assessment data on all state-supported assessments, as that term is defined in the bill, (a) in a format that shows both current and cumulative data over time and (b) within 45 days of a state-supported assessment window closing for each state-supported assessment; (ii) provides a description of the purpose of each state-supported assessment, an explanation of how to interpret student data on each state-supported assessment, and a comparison of a student's performance on each state-supported assessment with the performance of the student's school, the student's school division, and the Commonwealth; (iii) is viewable from a mobile device in addition to a desktop computer; and (iv) provides functionality to enable school division personnel to manage and restrict user access to students and their parents. The bill requires the Board and the Department of Education to provide certain guidance and technical assistance to local school divisions on professional development for principals and teachers in parent engagement on and interpretation of student assessment data available through the Portal and requires each school board to annually provide high-quality professional development to principals and teachers on such topics. The bill satisfies the reenactment requirement of Chapter 652 of the Acts of Assembly of 2023.

Virginia Parent Data Portal; creation and maintenance by Board of Education.

Sen. Jeremy McPike [D]

2024-02-08 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2025 in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-08	Senate	Continued to 2025 in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
2024-02-01	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2024-02-01	Senate	Committee substitute printed 24105007D-S1
2024-02-01	Senate	Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
2024-01-24	Senate	Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education
2023-12-28	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2023-12-28	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102892D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	253.13:3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	253.13:5	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB72
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB72+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB72S1+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/24105007D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+SB72FS1122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S04V0087+SB0072
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+vot+S05V0251+SB0072