SD24 - Report of the Joint Subcommittee Studying the Feasibility of Requiring Guidance Counselors in the Public Elementary Schools

  • Published: 1984
  • Author: Joint Subcommittee Studying the Feasibility of Requiring Guidance Counselors in the Public Elementary Schools
  • Enabling Authority: Senate Joint Resolution 69 (Regular Session, 1982)

Executive Summary:
The Joint Subcommittee Studying the Feasibility of Requiring Guidance Counselors in the Public Elementary Schools was authorized to conduct its study by Senate Joint Resolution No. 69, agreed to during the 1982 Session of the General Assembly. The resolution may be found in the appendices of this report.

Senate Joint Resolution No. 69, 1982, requested that the Joint Subcommittee reconvene each year to consider the status and needs of elementary guidance and counseling programs in the Commonwealth and to submit its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the 1983 and 1984 Sessions of the General Assembly. Appointed to serve on the Joint Subcommittee were Senators Stanley C. Walker of Norfolk, Chairman, A. Joe Canada, Jr., of Virginia Beach, and Richard L. Saslaw of Annandale; Delegates George P. Beard, Jr., of Culpeper, Vice-Chairman, Willard Finney of Rocky Mount, Joan H. Munford of Blacksburg, and Mitchell Van Yahres of Charlottesville. Citizen members appointed to the Joint Subcommittee's Citizen's Advisory Task Force were George M. Bright, M.D., of Richmond, Dr. Anna G. Dodson of Norfolk, The Honorable Willard H. Douglas, Jr., of Richmond, Dr. William Van Hoose of Charlottesville, R. Roger Koontz of Winchester, The Honorable Gammiel Poindexter of Surry, Nana Lou Sauder of Lexington, Gary A. Smith of Harrisonburg, and Dr. Gaynelle Whitlock of Richmond.