VirginiaStandards of Quality; measurement of student educational performance and academic achievement.
What it does
Standards of Quality; standards of accreditation; measurement of student educational performance and academic achievement; calculation of proportionality score required. Directs the Board of Education (the Board), in consultation with the Department of Education (the Department), to establish and implement standards for determining and recognizing student educational performance and academic achievement in the form of a weighted proportionality score for each school, to account for no less than five percent of such school's accreditation rating score or metric under the current school accountability system, for the purpose of identifying, accounting for in determining accreditation ratings, and addressing disparities in access to educational resources across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups in public schools in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Department to (i) develop a metric for calculating the weighted proportionality score for each school using certain variables calculated by the Department; (ii) develop a metric for calculating the improvement of a school's proportionality score received year over year; (iii) assign for each school based on such school's proportionality score a proportionality designation of "highly proportional," "proportional," "somewhat disproportional," and "highly disproportional"; and (iv) require any school board that contains within the school division a school assigned a proportionality designation of "highly disproportional" to develop and submit to the Department a remediation plan detailing the actions such school board will take to reduce disparities in access to education resources.
More detail
The bill directs the Board to (a) amend its regulations to include as a school quality indicator the weighted proportionality score developed in accordance with the bill and (b) submit to the U.S. Department of Education within 90 days of the effective date of the bill any amendments necessary to its state plan pursuant to the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended, that are necessary to implement the provisions of the act. Finally, the bill requires its provisions to be implemented beginning with the 2025–2026 school year.
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- Introduced
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- Passed Senate
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History
- 2025
- Apr 2House sustained Governor's vetoLatest
- Mar 24Vetoed by Governor Glenn YoungkinMajor
- Mar 11Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025To Governor
- Mar 11Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025Minor
- Mar 10Signed by PresidentMajor
- Mar 7Signed by SpeakerMajor
- Mar 7Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2244)
- Mar 7Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2244ER)Major
- Mar 7EnrolledMinor
- Feb 20Senate substitute agreed to by House (51-Y 47-N)Major
- Vote recorded Senate substitute agreed to by House (51-Y 47-N). Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 19Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 19-N)Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 19-N). Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 19Engrossed by Senate - committee substituteMajor
- Feb 19Education and Health Substitute agreed to
- Feb 19Reading of substitute waived
- Feb 19Read third timeMinor
- Feb 18Passed by for the day
- Feb 17Passed by for the day
- Vote recorded Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N). Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading). Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 17Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- Feb 17Rules suspended
- Feb 14Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2244)
- Feb 13Committee substitute printed 25107254D-S1Major
- Vote recorded Reported from Education and Health with substitute (9-Y 5-N). Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 13Reported from Education and Health with substitute (9-Y 5-N)Minor
- Feb 10Assigned Education sub: Public EducationMinor
- Feb 5Referred to Committee on Education and HealthMinor
- Feb 5Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- Feb 4Read third time and passed House (52-Y 47-N)Passed House
- Vote recorded Read third time and passed House (52-Y 47-N). Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 3Read second time and engrossedMinor
- Jan 31Read first timeMinor
- Jan 29Reported from Education (12-Y 10-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported from Education (12-Y 10-N). Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 28Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
- Vote recorded Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N). Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 28Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2244)
- Jan 24Assigned Educ sub: K-12 SubcommitteeMinor
- Jan 7Referred to Committee on EducationMinor
- Jan 7Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101067DIntroduced