Richmond City Public Schools Learning Excellence by Aligning Public Schools Commission; established. (HB2253)

Introduced By

Del. Delores McQuinn (D-Richmond) with support from co-patron Sen. Joe Morrissey (D-Richmond)

Progress

Introduced
Passed Committee
Passed House
Passed Senate
Signed by Governor
Became Law

Description

Richmond City Public Schools Learning Excellence by Aligning Public Schools Commission. Establishes the Richmond City Public Schools Learning Excellence by Aligning Public Schools Commission for the purposes of evaluating Richmond City Public Schools facilities and making recommendations to the Richmond City School Board, Richmond City Council, and Mayor of Richmond. The bill also establishes a trust to fund the recommendations of the Commission. The provisions of the bill sunset on July 1, 2017. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Failed

History

DateAction
01/19/2015Committee
01/19/2015Presented and ordered printed 15103454D
01/19/2015Referred to Committee on Education
01/23/2015Assigned Education sub: Education Reform
02/03/2015Subcommittee recommends striking from docket
02/10/2015Left in Education

Comments

Bert Berlin writes:

Terrible name.

Vote of "no confidence" in council and school board. It says that of all school boards in the Commonwealth, only Richmond is incapable of doing its job.

It creates another unnecessary level of government.

Carol A.O. Wolf writes:

Did either McQuinn or Morrissey even bother to ask the Attorney General if this bill is Constitutional? As it reads, it is over-reaching and smacks of a power grab by local authorities.

Garet Prior writes:

Please do not pass this bill. For the past 5 months, I been volunteering on the RPS facilities task force and believe that good work is being done by the citizens of the city and school administration to address this problem. We are very close to presenting our findings to the community. Let local officials, who are accountable to local citizens, make decisions. Additional layers of bureaucracy would slow down, and possibly stifle, this process.

Thank you for your concern on this issue. It is of the utmost importance to be addressed.

Gray, Parent of RPS kids writes:

Please vote no to this bill. It targets our town of Richmond only. No other school division has such a commission. Our School Board and Superintendent and his cabinet work closely with the schools and the people of Richmond. The proposed commission -another layer of bureaucracy - would not only duplicate the work our School Board, facilities task force, and Superintendent's office is already doing, it would distance the people of Richmond and their input. With our new school administration we have more public forums than ever before and our input is taken seriously. Our schools are moving in the right direction. Please don't interfere by passing this bill to benefit a few.