RD350 - Study on Requiring Local School Boards to Provide Early Childhood Education in Virginia’s Public Schools - November 1, 2014
Executive Summary: At the 2014 General Assembly Session, Senate Bill 372 (SB 372) was introduced which mandated, by fiscal year 2020, that local school boards provide early childhood education programs for Virginia children meeting the following criteria: • are age four or five; • are not eligible to attend at-risk early childhood education programs or kindergarten; and, • whose parents wish to enroll them in such programs. The bill was passed by indefinitely in the Senate Committee on Education and Health. The Clerk of the Senate, in a letter to the Secretary of Education, referred the subject matter contained in SB 372 to the Secretary for study and requested that the chair of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the bill patron receive a written report, with a copy provided to the Clerk of the Senate, by November 1, 2014. |
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