Students; transferring out of a public school. (HB259)
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Introduced |
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Passed Committee |
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Description
Students transferring out of a local school division. Requires a local school division to obtain written documentation, to the extent practicable, from the school to which a student has transferred before making any status classification in an information management system. Read the Bill »
Outcome
Bill Has Passed
History
Date | Action |
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01/02/2008 | Committee |
01/02/2008 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/08 088042504 |
01/02/2008 | Referred to Committee on Education |
01/16/2008 | Impact statement from DPB (HB259) |
01/23/2008 | Reported from Education with amendment (21-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
01/24/2008 | Read first time |
01/25/2008 | Read second time |
01/25/2008 | Committee amendment agreed to |
01/25/2008 | Engrossed by House as amended HB259E |
01/25/2008 | Printed as engrossed 088042504-E |
01/28/2008 | Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) |
01/28/2008 | VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
01/28/2008 | Communicated to Senate |
01/28/2008 | Impact statement from DPB (HB259E) |
01/29/2008 | Constitutional reading dispensed |
01/29/2008 | Referred to Committee on Education and Health |
02/12/2008 | Assigned Education sub: Public Education |
02/21/2008 | Reported from Education and Health with amendment (13-Y 0-N) |
02/22/2008 | Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) |
02/25/2008 | Read third time |
02/25/2008 | Reading of amendment waived |
02/25/2008 | Committee amendment agreed to |
02/25/2008 | Engrossed by Senate as amended |
02/25/2008 | Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) |
02/25/2008 | Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
02/25/2008 | Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N) |
02/26/2008 | Placed on Calendar |
02/27/2008 | Senate amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N) |
02/27/2008 | VOTE: --- ADOPTION (96-Y 0-N) |
02/29/2008 | Enrolled |
02/29/2008 | Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB259ER) |
02/29/2008 | Impact statement from DPB (HB259ER) |
02/29/2008 | Signed by Speaker |
03/03/2008 | Signed by President |
03/05/2008 | G Approved by Governor-Chapter 422 (effective 7/1/08) |
03/14/2008 | G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0422) |
Comments
The purpose of this bill is to encourage schools to track down students when their whereabouts are unknown and to prevent dropouts from being mislabeled as transfers. It does not require anything extra from schools -- they should already receive records requests from the receiving school when a student is a bona fide transfer. Soon high school accreditation in Virginia will be based on graduation and completion statistics as well as test scores. There will be mounting pressure to mislabel dropouts as transfers in order to maintain full accreditation.
No mention is made of the EIMS state testing/tracking number assigned to all students. The Department of Education is now able to track all students using the State Testing Identifier and the four State Reporting submissions. If a student transfers within Virginia, the fail-safe is already in place, and school districts already are tracking these "lost sheep" students. If this bill is considered a high priority, then I would fully expect a funding bill to be attached for the state to fund such a position in each school district.