Bill Text: VA HB1501 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Standards of Learning Innovation Committee; adoption of recommendations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-01 - Passed by indefinitely in Rules (11-Y 6-N) [HB1501 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2018-HB1501-Introduced.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §22.1-253.13:10 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§22.1-253.13:10. Standards of Learning Innovation Committee.
The Secretary of Education, upon receiving recommendations for
appointments from the Virginia Parent Teacher Association, Virginia Education
Association, Virginia School Boards Association, Virginia Association of
Secondary School Principals, Virginia Association of Elementary School
Principals, Virginia Association of School Superintendents, Virginia State
Reading Association, Virginia School Counselor Association, and Virginia
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, shall establish and
appoint nonlegislative citizen members to the Standards of Learning Innovation
Committee (Committee). The Committee shall consist of (i) four members of the
Virginia House of Delegates, appointed by the Speaker of the House of
Delegates; (ii) three members of the Virginia Senate, appointed by the Senate
Committee on Rules on the recommendation of the Chair of the Senate Committee
on Education and Health; and (iii) at least one parent of a currently enrolled
public school student, public elementary school teacher, public secondary
school teacher, public secondary school guidance counselor, school board
member, public school principal, division superintendent, curriculum and
instruction specialist, higher education faculty member, representative of a
four-year public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth,
representative of a two-year public institution of higher education in the
Commonwealth, and representative of the business community in the Commonwealth
and such other stakeholders as the Secretary deems appropriate, appointed by
the Secretary. Members of the Committee should reflect geographic diversity and
rural and urban school systems as far as practicable. The Superintendent of
Public Instruction, the President of the Board of Education or his designee,
and the Secretary of Education or his designee shall serve ex officio. All
other members shall be appointed for terms of two years. The Committee, under
the direction of the Secretary, shall periodically make recommendations to the
Board of Education on (a) the Standards of Learning assessments, (b) authentic
individual student growth measures, (c) alignment between the Standards of
Learning and assessments and the School Performance Report Card, and (d) ideas
on innovative teaching in the classroom. An affirmative vote by a majority of
the legislative members in attendance and a majority
of nonlegislative members in attendance shall be required
for the Committee to adopt any recommendations. The Board of Education shall
review the recommendations of the Committee and submit to the Chairmen of the
House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health,
in advance of the next regular session of the General Assembly, any comments on
such recommendations that the Board of Education deems appropriate.
