Bill Text: VA SB433 | 2024 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: SLIFE; Board of Education to develop and adopt policies related to supporting students.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2024-04-08 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0623) [SB433 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2024-SB433-Prefiled.html

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SENATE BILL NO. 433 Offered January 10, 2024 Prefiled January 9, 2024 A BILL to direct the Board of Education to develop and adopt policies relating to supporting Students with Limited and/or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE) in staying in and graduating from high school. ---------- Patron-- Suetterlein ---------- Referred to Committee on Education and Health ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. The Board of Education shall develop and adopt policies relating to supporting Students with Limited and/or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE students) in staying in and graduating from, or otherwise completing, high school in the Commonwealth. In developing such policies, the Board shall develop a formula for calculating high school drop-out rates and a formula for calculating high school graduation rates that do not include in such calculations any SLIFE student who dropped out if such student had not yet been enrolled in a public high school in the Commonwealth for at least four semesters.