Public school accreditation; triennial review.
Summary
Public school accreditation; triennial review. Eliminates the ability of a school that only maintains a passingrate on Virginia assessment program tests or additional tests approvedby the Board of Education of 95 percent or above in each of the fourcore academic areas for two consecutive years to apply for and receivea waiver of accreditation from the Department of Education, whichwaiver confers full accreditation for a three-year period. Current law provides high-performing schools a separate pathway to obtainthree-year accreditation.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Mar 2020
Signed into Law
Apr 2020
Introduced Jan 8, 2020
Signed Apr 6, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Mar 3, 2020 · House of Delegates Feb 10, 2020
How they voted
37–3
Passed
Total votes 40
Mar 3, 2020
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican19
84% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
26
Key actions
7
Committee
7
Apr 6, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 688 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Mar 3, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (37-Y 3-N)
upper
Mar 2, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Feb 27, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 1-N 1-A)
upper
Feb 18, 2020
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Public Education
upper
Feb 11, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
upper
Feb 10, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 5, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Education (21-Y 0-N)
lower
Feb 3, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 13, 2020
Committee
Assigned Education sub: SOL and SOQ
lower
Jan 8, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 8, 2020
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102722D
lower
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Dawn Adams
DDemocratic
Co
Ellen Campbell
RRepublican
Co
Ibraheem S. Samirah
DDemocratic
Co
Martha M. Mugler
DDemocratic
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