2025 SESSION

INTRODUCED

25100603D

HOUSE BILL NO. 1599

Offered January 13, 2025

Prefiled January 3, 2025

A BILL to require the Department of Education to eliminate certain end-of-course Standards of Learning assessments and school boards to administer certain local alternative assessments.

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Patron—Cole

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Referred to Committee on Education

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. The Department of Education shall eliminate the end-of-course Standards of Learning assessments for Chemistry and World History II. The Board of Education shall establish and make available to each local school board guidelines for the administration of a local alternative end-of-course assessment in each such course, and each local school board shall ensure that each student enrolled in either such course completes the relevant local alternative assessment. Nothing in this act shall be construed to alter any high school graduation requirement established in § 22.1-253.13:4 of the Code of Virginia or in Board of Education regulations.