SB636: Standards of Learning; Board of Education to review assessments.


SENATE BILL NO. 636
Senate Amendments in [ ] -- February 3, 2014
A BILL to direct the Board of Education to review the Standards of Learning assessments and develop a plan to reduce such assessments.
Patrons Prior to Engrossment--Senators Hanger and Garrett

Referred to Committee on Education and Health

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. The Board of Education shall review the Standards of Learning assessments and develop a plan to reduce, by the 2015-2016 school year, the number of such assessments  [ , based on the number of such assessments required during the 2013-2014 school year,  ] by at least 25 percent. The Board shall report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor no later than October 1, 2014.

SENATE BILL NO. 636

Offered January 17, 2014
A BILL to direct the Board of Education to review the Standards of Learning assessments and develop a plan to reduce such assessments.
Patron-- Hanger

Referred to Committee on Education and Health

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. The Board of Education shall review the Standards of Learning assessments and develop a plan to reduce, by the 2015-2016 school year, the number of such assessments by at least 25 percent. The Board shall report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor no later than October 1, 2014.