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This memorandum provides information regarding revisions to the Standards of Quality (SOQ), § 22.1-253.13:1 through 22.1-253.13:9 of the Code of Virginia, passed by the 2013 General Assembly. The revisions became effective July 1, 2013, unless otherwise noted. The General Assembly revised Standards One, Two, Three, Four, Five and Seven through the following legislation: HB 1350
Amends Standard Four to require first-time ninth grade students in the 2016-2017 school year to receive training in emergency first aid, CPR, and the use of an AED, including hands-on practice of the skills necessary to perform CPR, in order to earn a Standard or Advanced Studies Diploma. Reference: §§ 22.1-253.13:1 and 22.1-253.13:4 of the Code.
SB 1171 Amends Standard One (§ 22.1-253.13:1) and Standard Two (§ 22.1-253.13:2). Amends Standard One by requiring local school divisions to provide reading intervention services to students in kindergarten through grade three who demonstrate deficiencies based on their individual performance on the SOL reading test or any reading diagnostic test that meets criteria established by the Department of Education. Local school divisions are required to report the results of the diagnostic tests to the Department of Education on an annual basis. Each student who receives early intervention reading services must be assessed at the end of that school year.
Amends Standard Two by permitting local school divisions that provide algebra readiness intervention services and reading intervention services to employ mathematics teacher specialists and reading specialists to provide the required intervention services. Reference: §§ 22.1-253.13:1 and 22.1-253.13:2 of the Code.
Amends Standard Three (§ 22.1-253.13:3) by permitting any local school board to request the Board of Education for release from state regulations on behalf of one or more of its schools. Waivers of regulatory requirements may be granted based upon a request from the division superintendent and chairman of the local school board. The Board may grant, for a period up to five years, a waiver of regulatory requirements that are not mandated by state or federal law or designed to promote health or safety. The Board may also grant local school boards waivers of specific staffing requirements in § 22.1-253.13:2 of the Code, permitting the local school board to assign instructional personnel to the schools with the greatest needs, so long as the school division employs a sufficient number of personnel division-wide to meet the total number required by § 22.1-253.13:2 and all pupil/teacher ratios and class size maximums required by the SOQ are met. Reference: § 22.1-253.13:3 of the Code.