Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council; established.
Summary
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (Council), including at least one teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization, school administrator, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy. The bill requires the Council to (i) develop and recommend to the Board of Education for adoption a model policy for local school boards that would enable such school boards to better support the digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy of all students in the local school division; (ii) develop and recommend to the Board for adoption model instructional practices for the safe, ethical, and responsible use of media and technology by students in public elementary and secondary schools; (iii) design and post on the Department of Education's website a page with links to successful instructional practices, curricula, and other teacher resources used in school divisions within and outside of the Commonwealth for the safe, ethical, and responsible use of media and technology by students; and (iv) submit a report of its findings to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than October 31, 2020. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2021.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2019
Committee Review
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Governor
Introduced Jan 7, 2019
Last action Feb 5, 2019
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Jan 21, 2019
Committee
Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
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Jan 21, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
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Jan 7, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Science and Technology
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Jan 7, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100531D
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1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
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Rip Sullivan
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