HB2144: Standards of Quality; waivers from third grade Standards of Learning assessments in certain schools.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. § 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to
the contrary, the Board of Education shall grant a two-year waiver from the science
or history and social science Standards of Learning assessment requirement, or
both, for third grade students to a public elementary school that had an
adjusted pass rate of less than 75 percent on the [ third
grade Standards of Learning reading assessment Standards of Learning
reading assessments ] administered during the previous school year and
that: (a) applies for a waiver in the form and by the deadline prescribed by
the Board pursuant to regulation; (b) hires a full-time reading specialist to
work with the third grade students and teachers in the school; (c) develops a
system to monitor the academic progress of all third grade students in the
subject area in which the assessment waiver is sought, which shall include the
administration of a summative assessment or another divisionwide assessment to
third grade students in that subject area; (d) commits to publishing the
adjusted pass rate of third grade students on such summative assessment or
other divisionwide assessment once the results are available; and (e) commits
to providing at least 30 minutes of instruction per day to third grade students
in the subject area in which the assessment waiver is sought.
The Board of Education shall consider applications and
grant waivers based on the criteria above from the third grade Standards of Learning
assessment in science or history and social science or both in advance of the
2013-2014 school year, based on the school's adjusted pass rate on the [ third
grade ] Standards of Learning reading [ assessment
assessments ] administered during the 2011-2012 school year.
2. That the provisions of this act shall expire on July 1, 2015.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. § 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the Board of Education shall grant a two-year waiver from the science or history and social science Standards of Learning assessment requirement, or both, for third grade students to a public elementary school that had an adjusted pass rate of less than 75 percent on the third grade Standards of Learning reading assessment administered during the previous school year and that: (a) applies for a waiver in the form and by the deadline prescribed by the Board pursuant to regulation; (b) hires a full-time reading specialist to work with the third grade students and teachers in the school; (c) develops a system to monitor the academic progress of all third grade students in the subject area in which the assessment waiver is sought, which shall include the administration of a summative assessment or another divisionwide assessment to third grade students in that subject area; (d) commits to publishing the adjusted pass rate of third grade students on such summative assessment or other divisionwide assessment once the results are available; and (e) commits to providing at least 30 minutes of instruction per day to third grade students in the subject area in which the assessment waiver is sought.
The Board of Education shall consider applications and grant waivers based on the criteria above from the third grade Standards of Learning assessment in science or history and social science or both in advance of the 2013-2014 school year, based on the school's adjusted pass rate on the third grade Standards of Learning reading assessment administered during the 2011-2012 school year.
2. That the provisions of this act shall expire on July 1, 2015.
HOUSE BILL NO. 2144
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the Board of Education shall grant a two-year waiver from the science or history and social science Standards of Learning assessment requirement for third grade students to a public elementary school that is either (i) accredited with warning based on the adjusted pass rates on the third grade Standards of Learning reading assessment administered during the previous school year or (ii) had an adjusted pass rate of less than 75 percent on the third grade Standards of Learning reading assessment administered during the previous school year and that: (a) applies for a waiver in the form and by the deadline prescribed by the Board pursuant to regulation; (b) hires a full-time reading specialist to work with the third grade students and teachers in the school; (c) develops a system to monitor the academic progress of third grade students in the subject area in which the assessment waiver is sought, which shall include the administration of a summative assessment or another divisionwide assessment to third grade students in that subject area; (d) commits to publishing the adjusted pass rate of third grade students on such summative assessment or other divisionwide assessment once the results are available; and (e) commits to providing at least 30 minutes of instruction per day to third grade students in the subject area in which the assessment waiver is sought.
The Board of Education shall consider applications and grant waivers from the third grade Standards of Learning assessment in history and social science in advance of the 2013-2014 school year, based on the school's adjusted pass rate on the third grade Standards of Learning reading assessment administered during the 2012-2013 school year.
The Board of Education shall consider applications and grant waivers from the third grade Standards of Learning assessment in science in advance of the 2014-2015 school year, based on the school's adjusted pass rate on the third grade Standards of Learning reading assessment administered during the 2013-2014 school year.
2. That the provisions of this act shall expire on July 1, 2016.