HB 1947 Virginia House of Delegates · 2021 Regular Session

High school graduation requirements; certain substitutions.

Summary
Board of Education; high school graduation requirements; certain substitutions. Requires the Board of Education, in establishing high school graduation requirements, to provide for the substitutionof computer coding course credit for any foreign language coursecredit required to graduate with a standard or advanced diploma forchildren with disabilities. Such requirement replaces a narrowerprovision in current law that requires the Board to permit a studentwho is pursuing an advanced diploma and whose individualized educationprogram specifies a credit accommodation for world language to substitutetwo standard units of credit in computer science for two standardunits of credit in a world language.
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Jan 2021
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Introduced Jan 11, 2021 Last action Feb 5, 2021
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Committee
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Jan 25, 2021
Lower · Passed
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
lower
Jan 14, 2021
Committee
Assigned Education sub: SOL and SOQ
lower
Jan 11, 2021
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
Jan 11, 2021
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101837D
lower
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors

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