Summary
Meets on: Monday and Wednesday at 9:00 a.m (Monday) 8:00 a.m (Wednesday) in House Committee Room
Members: Roslyn Tyler (Chair) – John Avoli – Lamont Bagby – Amanda Batten – Jeff Bourne – David Bulova – Joshua Cole – Mark Cole – Glenn Davis – Nancy Guy – Elizabeth Guzman – Mark Keam – Danny Marshall –
John McGuire – Delores McQuinn – Martha Mugler – Sam Rasoul – Roxann Robinson – Suhas Subramanyam – Schuyler VanValkenburg – Will Wampler
13 Democrats and 9 Republicans
Subcommittees:
- Post-Secondary and Higher Ed
- Pre-K-12
OnAir Post: Education Committee
News
Note: Details on bill passed below are in the Heading “Bills passed”
- HB 1747 Clinical nurse specialist; licensure of nurse practitioners as specialists, etc.
- HB 1776 Education, Board of; temporary extension of certain teachers’ licenses.
- HB 1790 Public schools; severe weather conditions and other emergency situations.
- HB 1798 Brunswick County school board; appointed school board salaries.
- HB 1823 Public schools, child day programs, and certain other programs; carbon monoxide detectors required.
- HB 1827 Education, Board of; geographic representation of members.
- HB 1838 Loudoun County school board; staggered terms of its members.
- HB 1855 Mines, Minerals and Energy, Department of; renamed the Department of Energy.
- HB 1865 Kindergarten through grade 3; reading intervention services for certain students.
- HB 1904 Teachers and other licensed school board employees; cultural competency.
- HB 1905 Economic education and financial literacy required in middle and high school grades; employment.
- HB 1918 Student driver safety; driver education program shall include dangers of speeding.
- HB 1930 Higher educational institutions, public; admissions applications criminal history questions.
- HB 1940 Students; guidelines on excused student absences, civic engagement.
- HB 1980 Enslaved Ancestors College Access Scholarship and Memorial Program; established, report.
- HB 1986 George Mason University; management agreement with the Commonwealth.
- HB 1998 Public schools; lock-down drills, annual requirement.
- HB 2013 School boards; board policy for students unable to pay for a meal at school.
- HB 2019 Public elementary and secondary schools; administration of undesignated stock albuterol inhalers.
- HB 2027 Standards of Learning assessments; reading and mathematics; grades three through eight.
- HB 2035 Virginia Initiative for Education and Work; participants, modifies Full Employment Program.
- HB 2058 Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board; established, report.
- HB 2105 Early childhood education; quality rating and improvement system participation.
- HB 2119 Student driver education program; parent/student component exemption.
- HB 2120 Higher educational institutions, public; governing boards, meetings, input, and disclosures.
- HB 2123 Students; eligibility for in-state tuition.
- HB 2135 School boards, certain; participation in the Afterschool Meal Program.
- HB 2148 Small renewable energy projects; energy storage.
- HB 2176 School board policies; abusive work environments, definitions.
- HB 2182 Traumatic brain injury; definition.
- HB 2204 Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and Program; established.
- HB 2218 Pharmaceutical processors; permits processors to produce & distribute cannabis products.
- HB 2299 Special education; training for school divisions on developing IEPs for children w/ disabilities.
- HB 2316 Students w/ disabilities; Dept. of Education to update its special education and related services.
Virginia Mercury, – April 1, 2021
Makya Little was helping her fourth-grade daughter review for the Virginia Studies SOL, a standardized test on state history, when she found herself taken aback by one of the questions on the study guide.
“She gets to this one question that says ‘What’s the status of the early African?’” said Little, who lives in Prince William County. The correct answer, according to the class materials, was “unknown. They were either servants or enslaved.”
“I got really, really upset,” Little said. While historians widely agree that the first Africans to arrive at the Jamestown settlement were enslaved, there’s been contentious discussion on the topic — some of the state’s own study materials also state that it’s “unknown” whether they arrived as slaves or indentured servants. The school division didn’t provide any of that context, and Little said multiple thoughts flashed through her head. The information was “misleading,” she added, and seemed designed to “soften how early Americans treated Black and Indigenous people” (another prompt on the study guide stated that native people and English settlers had a “trade relationship”).
Virginia Mercury, – March 29, 2021
Low-income students in Virginia will soon be getting financial help with all the costs of getting an education.
Gov. Ralph Northam on Monday signed into law the “Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back” program, which will provide full tuition for community college for low-income students in certain majors, as well as incidental expenses such as food and transportation.
The bill, which passed the legislature overwhelmingly last month, budgets $36 million a year over the next two years.
The bill covers education that leads to in-demand jobs in fields such as technology, skilled labor and health care. Officials gathered at Northern Virginia Community College for the signing Monday said the bill would open doors to people who were considering higher education.
“I am so incredibly proud of this initiative,” said House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn. “This has been something that we’ve been working on for a number of years.” She said there was a lot of bipartisan support for the bill even before COVID-19, but with a lot of lower-skill jobs disappearing because of the pandemic, “It’s more important now than ever.”
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