Bill Text: VA SB636 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Standards of Learning; Board of Education to review assessments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-02-26 - Tabled in Education by voice vote [SB636 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2014-SB636-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL NO. 636 Offered January 17, 2014 A BILL to direct the Board of Education to review the Standards of Learning assessments and develop a plan to reduce such assessments. ---------- Patron-- Hanger ---------- Referred to Committee on Education and Health ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. §1. The Board of Education shall review the Standards of Learning assessments and develop a plan to reduce, by the 2015-2016 school year, the number of such assessments by at least 25 percent. The Board shall report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor no later than October 1, 2014.