HB634
School Divisions of Innovation; local assessments.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. School Divisions of Innovation; local assessments.
Allows a local school board, when applying for its school division to be designated as a School Division of Innovation, to apply to the Board of Education to replace the Virginia Studies and Civics and Economics Standards of Learning assessments with local assessments that include performance-based assessments. The bill requires ... (More) any such application to (i) demonstrate that the proposed local assessment requires that students demonstrate the knowledge and skills required by the relevant Standards of Learning and that students demonstrate one or more of the skills and qualities of critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication, or citizenship and (ii) provide evidence of the local school board's capacity to administer and score performance-based assessments. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/06/2020 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101291D
- 01/06/2020 - House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/13/2020 - House: Assigned Education sub: SOL and SOQ
- 01/20/2020 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
- 01/20/2020 - House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/22/2020 - House: Reported from Education (16-Y 6-N)
- 01/22/2020 - House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/23/2020 - House: Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
- 01/23/2020 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB634)
- 01/24/2020 - House: House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- 01/24/2020 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 1-N)
- 01/27/2020 - House: House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- 01/27/2020 - House: Reported from Appropriations with amendments (21-Y 1-N)
- 01/29/2020 - House: Read first time
- 01/30/2020 - House: Read second time
- 01/30/2020 - House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 01/30/2020 - House: Engrossed by House as amended HB634E
- 01/30/2020 - House: Printed as engrossed 20101291D-E
- 01/31/2020 - House: Passed by for the day
- 02/03/2020 - House: Read third time and passed House (65-Y 33-N)
- 02/03/2020 - House: VOTE: Passage (65-Y 33-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/04/2020 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/04/2020 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/05/2020 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB634E)
- 02/13/2020 - Senate: Continued to 2021 in Education and Health (13-Y 0-N)
