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(10628, 7, '2022-05-09 16:38:09', '2022-05-09 20:38:09', '<h3>2022</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Federal-Advocacy-Update--May-9--2022.html?soid=1132484837359&amp;aid=PeEOSu8y-Y8">May 9, 2022</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Federal-Advocacy-Update--May-2--2022.html?soid=1132484837359&amp;aid=zBCzISwKvbw">May 2, 2022</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Federal-Advocacy-Update--April-25--2022.html?soid=1132484837359&amp;aid=v6x0islAN1s">April 25, 2022</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Federal-Advocacy-Update--April-18--2022.html?soid=1132484837359&amp;aid=y8iL7KeIb0M">April 18, 2022</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://conta.cc/3jIH4Fv">April 11, 2022</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/April-4-Federal-Advocacy.pdf">April 4, 2022</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/federal-advocacy-report-March.pdf">March 28, 2022</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Federal-Advocacy-Update-1.7.2022.pdf">January 7, 2022</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3>2021</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Federal-Advocacy-Update-12.17.2021.pdf">December 17, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Federal-Advocacy-Update-12.13.2021.pdf">December 13, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Federal-Advocacy-Update-10.22.2021.pdf">October 22, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Federal-Advocacy-Update-10.11.2021.pdf">October 11, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Federal-Advocacy-Update-10.1.2021.pdf">October 1, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Federal-Advocacy-Update-9.27.2021.pdf">September 27, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Federal-Advocacy-Update-9.17.2021.pdf">September 17, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Federal-Advocacy-Update-9.13.2021.pdf">September 13, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Federal-Advocacy-Report-9.7.2021.pdf">September 7, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Federal-Advocacy-Update-8.27.2021.pdf">August 27, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Federal-Advocacy-Report-8.20.2021.pdf">August 20, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Federal-Advocacy-Update-8.16.2021.pdf">August 16, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Federal-Advocacy-Update-8.2.2021.pdf">August 2, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Federal-Advocacy-Update-7.26.2021.pdf">July 26, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Federal-Advocacy-Update-7.16.2021.pdf">July 16, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Federal-Advocacy-Update-7.12.2021.pdf">July 12, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Federal-Advocacy-Update-7.6.2021.pdf">July 6, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Federal-Advocacy-Report-6.28.2021.pdf">June 28, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Federal-Advocacy-Update-7.14.2021.pdf">June 14, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Federal-Advocacy-Report-6.7.2021.pdf">June 7, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Federal-Advocacy-Update-6.1.2021.pdf">June 1, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Federal-Advocacy-Report-5.22.2021.pdf">May 22, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Federal-Advocacy-Update-5.15.2021.pdf">May 15, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Federal-Advocacy-Report-5.8.2021.pdf">May 8, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Federal-Advocacy-Report-5.1.2021.pdf">May 1, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Federal-Advocacy-Update-4.26.2021.pdf">April 24, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Federal-Advocacy-Report-4.17.2021.pdf">April 17, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Federal-Advocacy-Report-4.3.2021.pdf">April 3, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Federal-Advocacy-Report-3.27.2021.pdf">March 27, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Federal-Advocacy-Report-3.20.2021.pdf">March 20, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Federal-Advocacy-Update-3.13.2021.pdf">March 13, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Federal-Advocacy-Update-3.6.2021.pdf">March 6, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Federal-Advocacy-Report-2.27.2021.pdf">February 27, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Federal-Advocacy-Report-2.20.2021.pdf">February 20, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/February-13-2021-Federal-Advocacy-Update.pdf">February 13, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Federal-Advocacy-Report-2.6.2021.pdf">February 6, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Federal-Advocacy-Report-1.30.2021.pdf">January 30, 2021</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Federal-Advocacy-Update-1.16.2021.pdf">January 16, 2021</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>2020</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Federal-Advocacy-Update-12.19.2020.pdf">December 19, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Federal-Advocacy-Report-12.5.2020.pdf">December 5, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Federal-Advocacy-Report-11.21.2020.pdf">November 21, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Federal-Advocacy-Report-11.6.2020.pdf">November 6, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Federal-Advocacy-Report-10.30.2020.pdf">October 30, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_10.24.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_10.24.2020.pdf">October 24, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report10.17.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report10.17.2020.pdf">October 17, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_10.10.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_10.10.2020.pdf">October 10, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_10.5.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_10.5.2020.pdf">October 5, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Update_9.26.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Update_9.26.2020.pdf">September 26, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_9.19.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_9.19.2020.pdf">September 19, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_9.12.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_9.12.2020.pdf">September 12, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_9.4.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_9.4.2020.pdf">September 4, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_8.29.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_8.29.2020.pdf">August 29, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_8.15.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_8.15.2020.pdf">August 15, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_8.8.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_8.8.2020.pdf">August 8, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_8.1.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_8.1.2020.pdf">August 1, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_7.25.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_7.25.2020.pdf">July 25, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_7.19.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_7.19.2020.pdf">July 19, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_7.3.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_7.3.2020.pdf">July 3, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_6.29.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_6.29.2020.pdf">June 29, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_6.22.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_6.22.2020.pdf">June 22, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Update_6.12.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Update_6.12.2020.pdf">June 12, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Update_6.8.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Update_6.8.2020.pdf">June 8, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_6.1.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_6.1.2020.pdf">June 1, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_5.26.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_5.26.2020.pdf">May 26, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Update_5.16.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Update_5.16.2020.pdf">May 16, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_5.9.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_5.9.2020.pdf">May 9, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Update_5.2.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Update_5.2.2020.pdf">May 2, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_4.27.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_4.27.2020.pdf">April 25, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_4.6.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_4.6.2020.pdf">April 6, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Update_3.30.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Update_3.30.2020.pdf">March 30, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_3.16.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_3.16.2020.pdf">March 16, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_2.29.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_2.29.2020.pdf">February 29, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_2.22.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_2.22.2020.pdf">February 22, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_2.15.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_2.15.2020.pdf">February 15, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><img 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href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_1.18.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_1.18.2020.pdf">January 18, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_1.13.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_1.13.2020.pdf">January 13, 2020</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_1.6.2020.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_1.6.2020.pdf">January 6, 2020</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>2019</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_12.13.2019.pdf" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Federal_Advocacy_Report_12.13.2019.pdf">December 13, 2019</a></li>\r\n 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Nine winners were selected by a panel consisting of the Kajeet and the VSBA Executive teams. The winners were announced at school board meetings held March through last week. The district winners are:\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>Southside – Goochland County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Tidewater – Williamsburg/James City County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Eastern – Essex County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Northeastern – Fredericksburg City Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Central – Nelson County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Southern – Lunenburg County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Blue Ridge – Botetourt County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Southwest – Tazewell County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Valley – Harrisonburg City Public Schools</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n“We are thrilled for the winning districts and congratulate all the applicants looking to increase connectivity for their students,” said Daniel Neal, CEO and Founder of Kajeet. “Our partnership with VBSA is a significant way for us to stay focused on closing the homework gap that exists for far too many students in Virginia. We look forward to seeing how this investment will change lives.”\r\n\r\nThe majority of winning divisions plan to incorporate WiFi hotspots (Kajeet SmartSpot) and bus WiFi (Kajeet SmartBus) into their student connectivity plans. With the average student spending up to 46 minutes roundtrip on the bus traveling to and from school each day, more divisions are looking to provide productive, safe options for students to complete online assignments, study for exams, or access additional educational resources. All Kajeet solutions include firewall protection and robust filtering, including CIPA (Children’s Internet Protection Act)-compliant filters to ensure devices are secure and safe.\r\n\r\nHarrisonburg City Public Schools plans to use their grant to include all Kajeet’s Education Broadband solutions which include WiFi hotspots, school bus WiFi, LTE-embedded Chromebooks, and routers. According to the divisions’s Executive Director of Technology, Toni Sheets, “Roughly 60% of the households in the city of Harrisonburg with school-age children, do not have broadband internet access at home. Unfortunately, that means hundreds of our students are digitally being left behind. This grant will allow us to focus on our goal of equitable access for all HCPS students.”\r\n\r\nIn 2021, VSBA commemorated it’s 115-year anniversary, to celebrate this milestone VSBA partnered with Kajeet to create a funding opportunity would allow school divisions across the Commonwealth to connect students to safe, reliable Internet outside of the classroom. Kajeet awarded nearly $250,000 in broadband services to Virginia school boards to solve the digital divide and help ensure that all students have access to learn, anytime, anywhere.\r\n\r\n“VSBA is thrilled to partner with Kajeet to help local divisions around the state improve on their broadband initiatives,” said Gina Patterson, Executive Director of VSBA. “We look forward to continuing the relationship with Kajeet to help even more divisions around the state on their broadband needs.”\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>About</strong> <a href="https://www.kajeet.net/industries/education/">Kajeet</a>\r\n\r\nKajeet is a leading managed IoT connectivity service provider and a trusted leader in education, providing software and hardware solutions that deliver safe, reliable, and controlled internet connectivity to nearly 3,000 businesses, schools and districts, state, and local governments, and IoT solution providers. 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Nine winners were selected by a panel consisting of the Kajeet and the VSBA Executive teams. The winners were announced at school board meetings held March through last week. The district winners are:\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>Southside – Goochland County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Tidewater – Williamsburg/James City County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Eastern – Essex County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Northeastern – Fredericksburg City Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Central – Nelson County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Southern – Lunenburg County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Blue Ridge – Botetourt County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Southwest – Tazewell County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Valley – Harrisonburg City Public Schools</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n“We are thrilled for the winning districts and congratulate all the applicants looking to increase connectivity for their students,” said Daniel Neal, CEO and Founder of Kajeet. “Our partnership with VBSA is a significant way for us to stay focused on closing the homework gap that exists for far too many students in Virginia. We look forward to seeing how this investment will change lives.”\r\n\r\nThe majority of winning divisions plan to incorporate WiFi hotspots (Kajeet SmartSpot) and bus WiFi (Kajeet SmartBus) into their student connectivity plans. With the average student spending up to 46 minutes roundtrip on the bus traveling to and from school each day, more divisions are looking to provide productive, safe options for students to complete online assignments, study for exams, or access additional educational resources. All Kajeet solutions include firewall protection and robust filtering, including CIPA (Children’s Internet Protection Act)-compliant filters to ensure devices are secure and safe.\r\n\r\nHarrisonburg City Public Schools plans to use their grant to include all Kajeet’s Education Broadband solutions which include WiFi hotspots, school bus WiFi, LTE-embedded Chromebooks, and routers. According to the divisions’s Executive Director of Technology, Toni Sheets, “Roughly 60% of the households in the city of Harrisonburg with school-age children, do not have broadband internet access at home. Unfortunately, that means hundreds of our students are digitally being left behind. This grant will allow us to focus on our goal of equitable access for all HCPS students.”\r\n\r\nIn 2021, VSBA commemorated it’s 115-year anniversary, to celebrate this milestone VSBA partnered with Kajeet to create a funding opportunity would allow school divisions across the Commonwealth to connect students to safe, reliable Internet outside of the classroom. Kajeet awarded nearly $250,000 in broadband services to Virginia school boards to solve the digital divide and help ensure that all students have access to learn, anytime, anywhere.\r\n\r\n“VSBA is thrilled to partner with Kajeet to help local divisions around the state improve on their broadband initiatives,” said Gina Patterson, Executive Director of VSBA. “We look forward to continuing the relationship with Kajeet to help even more divisions around the state on their broadband needs.”\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>About</strong> <a href="https://www.kajeet.net/industries/education/">Kajeet</a>\r\n\r\nKajeet is a leading managed IoT connectivity service provider and a trusted leader in education, providing software and hardware solutions that deliver safe, reliable, and controlled internet connectivity to nearly 3,000 businesses, schools and districts, state, and local governments, and IoT solution providers. 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Nine winners were selected by a panel consisting of the Kajeet and the VSBA Executive teams. The winners were announced at school board meetings held March through last week. The district winners are:\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>Southside – Goochland County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Tidewater – Williamsburg/James City County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Eastern – Essex County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Northeastern – Fredericksburg City Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Central – Nelson County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Southern – Lunenburg County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Blue Ridge – Botetourt County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Southwest – Tazewell County Public Schools</li>\r\n 	<li>Valley – Harrisonburg City Public Schools</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n“We are thrilled for the winning districts and congratulate all the applicants looking to increase connectivity for their students,” said Daniel Neal, CEO and Founder of Kajeet. “Our partnership with VBSA is a significant way for us to stay focused on closing the homework gap that exists for far too many students in Virginia. We look forward to seeing how this investment will change lives.”\r\n\r\nThe majority of winning divisions plan to incorporate WiFi hotspots (Kajeet SmartSpot) and bus WiFi (Kajeet SmartBus) into their student connectivity plans. With the average student spending up to 46 minutes roundtrip on the bus traveling to and from school each day, more divisions are looking to provide productive, safe options for students to complete online assignments, study for exams, or access additional educational resources. All Kajeet solutions include firewall protection and robust filtering, including CIPA (Children’s Internet Protection Act)-compliant filters to ensure devices are secure and safe.\r\n\r\nHarrisonburg City Public Schools plans to use their grant to include all Kajeet’s Education Broadband solutions which include WiFi hotspots, school bus WiFi, LTE-embedded Chromebooks, and routers. According to the divisions’s Executive Director of Technology, Toni Sheets, “Roughly 60% of the households in the city of Harrisonburg with school-age children, do not have broadband internet access at home. Unfortunately, that means hundreds of our students are digitally being left behind. This grant will allow us to focus on our goal of equitable access for all HCPS students.”\r\n\r\nIn 2021, VSBA commemorated it’s 115-year anniversary, to celebrate this milestone VSBA partnered with Kajeet to create a funding opportunity would allow school divisions across the Commonwealth to connect students to safe, reliable Internet outside of the classroom. Kajeet awarded nearly $250,000 in broadband services to Virginia school boards to solve the digital divide and help ensure that all students have access to learn, anytime, anywhere.\r\n\r\n“VSBA is thrilled to partner with Kajeet to help local divisions around the state improve on their broadband initiatives,” said Gina Patterson, Executive Director of VSBA. “We look forward to continuing the relationship with Kajeet to help even more divisions around the state on their broadband needs.”\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>About</strong> <a href="https://www.kajeet.net/industries/education/">Kajeet</a>\r\n\r\nKajeet is a leading managed IoT connectivity service provider and a trusted leader in education, providing software and hardware solutions that deliver safe, reliable, and controlled internet connectivity to nearly 3,000 businesses, schools and districts, state, and local governments, and IoT solution providers. 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Criteria for honorees include the following:\n<ol>\n 	<li>Makes the effort to get to know the superintendent and board chair.</li>\n 	<li>Understands the division’s mission and goals.</li>\n 	<li>Reports school news in a manner that is fair, accurate, and balanced.</li>\n 	<li>Gives a high-profile position to good news about schools.</li>\n 	<li>Regularly visits the schools, attends board meetings, etc.</li>\n 	<li>Maintains a policy of “no surprises” by sharing information with school representatives.</li>\n</ol>\nPlease note that in addition to submitting individual reporters, you also can submit entire stations or newspapers. The deadline for receipt of the submission form and resolution is <strong>August 22, 2022.</strong>\n\n<a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MediaHonorRoll2022">Click here for the Online Form. </a>\n<a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/MediaHonorRollGuide_2022-1.pdf">Click Here for the 2022 Guide.</a>\n\nLater this year, VSBA will publish the Media Honor Roll in the VSBA Newsletter to recognize those honored through this program. We also will send you personalized certificates electronically that are suitable for presentation to reporters at a board meeting.\n\nFor additional information, please contact Brittany Moore, member services coordinator, at 434-295-8722 or email <a href="mailto:brittany@vsba.org">brittany@vsba.org</a>.\n\n<em>Participation in VSBA initiatives and observances is optional. Any related materials from the Association are shared as suggested ideas and resources for implementation. 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Criteria for honorees include the following:\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>Makes the effort to get to know the superintendent and board chair.</li>\r\n 	<li>Understands the division’s mission and goals.</li>\r\n 	<li>Reports school news in a manner that is fair, accurate, and balanced.</li>\r\n 	<li>Gives a high-profile position to good news about schools.</li>\r\n 	<li>Regularly visits the schools, attends board meetings, etc.</li>\r\n 	<li>Maintains a policy of “no surprises” by sharing information with school representatives.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nPlease note that in addition to submitting individual reporters, you also can submit entire stations or newspapers. The deadline for receipt of the submission form and resolution is August 22, 2022.\r\n\r\nLater this year, VSBA will publish the Media Honor Roll in the VSBA Newsletter to recognize those honored through this program. We also will send you personalized certificates electronically that are suitable for presentation to reporters at a board meeting.\r\n\r\nFor additional information, please contact Brittany Moore, member services coordinator, at 434-295-8722 or email <a href="mailto:brittany@vsba.org">brittany@vsba.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<em>Participation in VSBA initiatives and observances is optional. Any related materials from the Association are shared as suggested ideas and resources for implementation. Member school boards may choose not to participate locally.</em>\r\n<h3>Congratulations to our 2021 honorees:</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Alleghany County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Darrell Gleason, The Virginian Review</li>\r\n 	<li>Jerry Clark, The Alleghany Journal</li>\r\n 	<li>Mark Pifer, The Recorder</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Appomattox County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Dave Walls, WSET - ABC-13</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Bedford County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Jamey Cross, The News &amp; Advance</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Caroline County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Ted Schubel, B101.5</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Carroll County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>David Broyles, The Carroll News</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Covington City</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Jerome Johnson, The Virginian Review &amp; The Recorder</li>\r\n 	<li>Jerry Clark, Alleghany Journal</li>\r\n 	<li>Darrell Gleason, The Virginian Review</li>\r\n 	<li>Gregory A. Howard, Highlands Media Group</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Culpeper County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Jonathan Krawchuk, Culpeper Media Network</li>\r\n 	<li>Josh Gully, Culpeper Times</li>\r\n 	<li>Culpeper Media Network</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Cumberland County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Laura McFarland, Cumberland TodayAlexa Massey, The Farmville Herald</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Falls Church City</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Nicholas Benton, Falls Church News Press</li>\r\n 	<li>Matt Delaney, Falls Church News Press</li>\r\n 	<li>Heather Graf, WJLA TV</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Fredericksburg City</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Adele Uphaus, Fredricksburg Free Lance-Star</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Hanover County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Holly Prestidge, Richmond Times-Dispatch</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Henry County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Kendall Davis, WDBJ7Luis Romero, BTW21</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>King and Queen County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Chris Rose, Rappahannock Times</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Lexington City</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Harrison Mines Branham, The News Gazette</li>\r\n 	<li>Bruce Young, WDBJ7</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Louisa County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Rob Cardwell, WTVR CBS 6</li>\r\n 	<li>David Holtzman, The Central Virginian</li>\r\n 	<li>Carly Haynes, CBS19 News</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Lunenburg County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Crystal Vandergrift, The Kenbridge-Victoria Dispatch</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Lynchburg City</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Jamey Cross, The News &amp; Advance</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Mathews County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Charles Koenig, Gloucester-Mathews Gazette</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>New Kent County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Andre Jones, New Kent Charles City Chronicle</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Newport News City</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Katie Collet, WAVY 10</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Petersburg City</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Matthew Fultz, WTVR_TV CBS 6 News</li>\r\n 	<li>Jessica Nocera, Richmond Times-Dispatch</li>\r\n 	<li>Karina Bolster, NBC 12 News</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Powhatan County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Laura McFarland, Powhatan Today</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Prince George County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Michael Campbell, Prince George County Public Schools</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Radford City</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Janay Reece, WDBJ7</li>\r\n 	<li>Travis Wells, WDBJ7</li>\r\n 	<li>Katy Rashetk, WDBJ7</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Roanoke County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Claire Mitzel, The Roanoke Times</li>\r\n 	<li>Eric Miller, WDBJ-TV</li>\r\n 	<li>Debbie Adams, The Salem Viton Messenger</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Shenandoah County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>John Hood, WHSV TV 3</li>\r\n 	<li>Rich Cooley, Northern Virginia Daily</li>\r\n 	<li>Tommy Keeler, Northern Virginia Daily</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Smyth County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Linda Burchette, Smyth County News &amp; Messenger</li>\r\n 	<li>Stephanie Porter-Nichols, Smyth County News &amp; Messenger</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>', 'Media Honor Roll', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '481-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-10 12:46:40', '2022-05-10 16:46:40', '', 481, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10651', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(10655, 3, '2022-05-10 13:06:27', '2022-05-10 17:06:27', '<h3><img class="size-full wp-image-10653 alignnone" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Copy-of-2020-Conference-Headers-7.png" alt="" width="820" height="200">\r\n2022 Hybrid Budget Workshop: The Boards Role in Developing the School Budget\r\nMay 10, 2022\r\nHybrid</h3>\r\nIn this hybrid workshop, board members will learn their role in the budget process and how it relates to the board’s mission and vision for the school system.\r\n\r\n<b>Major topics covered during this session include: </b>\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>School Finance Basics</li>\r\n 	<li>Local, State, and Federal Funds</li>\r\n 	<li>The Budget Process</li>\r\n 	<li>Effective Budget Presentations</li>\r\n 	<li>Factors Affecting a Budget and Building Support for the budget</li>\r\n 	<li>School Board’s Role in Effective School Finance Management</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nRegister today! You do not want to miss out on this informative workshop.\r\n\r\n<strong>Date:</strong> May 10, 2022\r\n<strong>Location:</strong> VSBA Offices in Charlottesville\r\n200 Hansen Rd\r\nCharlottesville, VA 22911 or Virtual\r\n<strong>Cost:</strong> $180 per registration\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Thank You to Our Sponsor: </strong></p>\r\n<img class="aligncenter" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/STS-1.png" alt="" width="128" height="103">\r\n\r\nFor questions or more information, contact Mikaela Coffey, Coordinator of Board Development at <a href="mailto:mikaela@vsba.org">mikaela@vsba.org</a> or 1-800-446-8722.\r\n\r\nDisclaimer: <em>Participation in VSBA initiatives and observances is optional. Any related materials from the Association are shared as suggested ideas and resources for implementation. Member school boards may choose not to participate locally.</em>', 'Budget Training Workshop', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '929-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-10 13:06:27', '2022-05-10 17:06:27', '', 929, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10655', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10656, 7, '2022-05-10 13:38:48', '2022-05-10 17:38:48', '<strong>Important Notice:</strong> The Virginia School Boards Association is assisting the school boards below with the search process. Candidates should not make contact with individual school board members. Inquiries should be directed to Gina G. Patterson, executive director, Virginia School Boards Association, 200 Hansen Road, Charlottesville, VA 22911, 434-295-8722, or <a href="mailto:gina@vsba.org" data-cke-saved-href="mailto:gina@vsba.org">gina@vsba.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Announcement of Superintendent Search</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Isle of Wight County Public Schools</strong>\r\n\r\nThe School Board of Isle of Wight County Public Schools invites applications and nominations for the position of Superintendent.\r\n\r\n<strong>The County</strong>\r\n\r\nIsle of Wight County, located in Hampton Roads, is one of the oldest counties in the United States.  Nestled on the shores of Virginia''s James River, Isle of Wight''s residents enjoy the rural nature of the county coupled with the quaint atmosphere of the two incorporated towns, Smithfield and Windsor.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Division</strong>\r\n\r\nIsle of Wight County Public Schools focuses on a school culture that helps each student develop their own unique gifts and talents. The school division values student and teacher voice and choice. Teachers employ a variety of approaches to meet diverse learners and recognize the value of all students working together.  A rigorous curriculum includes the integration of project-based learning, the merging of academic disciplines, as well as performance-based assessments. Students develop projects, solve problems, and present their findings to a wider audience through school-wide expos.\r\n\r\nStudents in Kindergarten through fourth grade participate in a literacy framework through the American Reading Company which focuses on individual and grade-level literacy instruction for every student using the gradual release model.  Teachers work with their students, track their literacy progress, and introduce literacy strategies to move students from where they are to where they need to be. The literacy framework incorporates reader’s workshop and writer’s workshop to ensure students are covering all the components of literacy.\r\n\r\nThe Isle of Wight County Schools’ Elementary Coding program introduces students in Kindergarten through 6th grade to a wide variety of coding languages and applications.  Students participate in weekly coding classes as part of the elementary resource schedule.  Coding experiences in the primary grades include the use of "unplugged" activities such as songs and games to give younger students concrete experiences to help explain abstract coding concepts.  All elementary students use online tutorials to solve coding "puzzles" and develop a problem-solving mindset for creating and debugging their programs. The coding and programming courses challenge students to think critically as they problem solve, analyze data, and apply logic. These skills are also critical for successfully solving complex math problems. Students also apply their coding knowledge in language arts projects that include storytelling and animations.  Other project-based learning topics in coding include game design and robotics.\r\n\r\nIsle of Wight County Schools launched a significant redesign of the division’s Career and Technical Education program to better prepare students for college, careers, and life after high school.  Emphasis is placed on courses that satisfy career pathways and provide opportunities for industry certifications in demand by employers. Feedback from the business community indicated a shortage of high school graduates capable of collaborating on a team with little supervision, skilled at brainstorming for conflict resolution, adept at communicating effectively, and able to display a strong work ethic.  The program incorporates these skills into hands-on, real-world experiences, both in and out of the classroom.  New disciplines have been added in building trades, cosmetology, culinary, nurse aid, welding, early childhood education, and manufacturing.  Many of the programs are located in new facilities or renovated spaces with industry-standard equipment.\r\n\r\nIsle of Wight County Schools is home to a working farm, known as the Land Lab, which is used to support the agricultural program. A full-time farm manager and agriculture teacher collaborate to provide authentic real-world learning in the areas of agricultural business management and mechanization, along with plant, animal, and soil science.  Students transformed the space from six acres of uncut grass, to four fenced pastures, a vegetable garden, and housing for chickens, rabbits, pigs, cows, and goats. Students receive real world experiences through the Land Lab, such as participation in “farm to table” marketing from the sale of farm products to the public and to the division’s culinary arts program.   In December 2018, the division opened a barn and classroom building at the Land Lab to enhance the learning experience for students.\r\n\r\nThe division’s emphasis on preparing students for a career after high school earned them recognition from several organizations.  In 2019, Isle of Wight County Schools received a Workforce Innovation Award from the Hampton Roads Workforce Development Board and a Workforce Readiness Award from the Virginia School Boards Association.\r\n\r\n<strong>The Schools</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Isle of Wight County Public Schools serve approximately 5,600 students from kindergarten through grade 12 in five elementary schools, two middle schools, and two high school. Each school is fully accredited by the Virginia Department of Education.\r\n\r\nWebsite: <a href="https://www.iwcs.k12.va.us/">https://www.iwcs.k12.va.us/</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Student Population:</strong>\r\n\r\nStudent enrollment is 5,600.\r\n\r\n<strong>Total of Employees</strong>\r\n\r\n758 including superintendent, full-time, part-time, and hourly employees\r\n\r\n<strong>Division Budget</strong>\r\n\r\nThe current 2021/2022 operating budget is $64,400,000\r\n\r\n<strong>Desired Qualifications</strong>\r\n\r\nAfter seeking input from its Board members, parents, staff, students, and community, The Isle of Wight County School Board seeks a decisive and visionary educational leader with outstanding qualifications and characteristics as reflected below.\r\n<blockquote>Doctorate preferred\r\nCandidate must have at least 5 years of experience as a superintendent, assistant superintendent, acting superintendent, principal, or administrator\r\nCandidates must meet the legal requirements to be licensed or be eligible for licensure as a superintendent in Virginia.\r\nCandidates must agree to live or move within 50 miles of the IWCS Central Office\r\nCandidate knows how to delegate authority but not responsibility\r\nCandidate is a team builder\r\nCandidate is not politically motivated but student motivated.\r\nCandidate brings fresh ideas (examples: new CTE programs, new clubs, new sports etc.)\r\nCandidate knows how to work with local governing body.\r\nCandidate is articulate and a good communicator\r\nCandidate is a decisive leader and deliberate in actions\r\nCandidate has a vision for academic excellence\r\nCandidate can handle complaints from parents in a successful way\r\nCandidate is attentive and good listener\r\nCandidate has ambition and is committed to student success\r\nCandidate understands school finance\r\nCandidate is a motivator of staff, students, and community\r\nCandidate is confident in their actions and decisions\r\nCandidate accommodates different perspectives\r\nCandidate creates an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect\r\nCandidate responds to concerns in an appropriate manner.\r\nCandidate promotes staff development and staff evaluation\r\nCandidate is skilled in developing business partnerships</blockquote>\r\nCandidates must meet the legal requirements to be licensed or be eligible for licensure as a superintendent in Virginia. Questions concerning the eligibility requirement should be directed to the Office of Licensure and School Leadership, State Department of Education, P.O. Box 2120, Richmond, VA 23218-2120, Telephone: (804) 371-2522.\r\n\r\n<strong>Salary</strong>\r\n\r\nCommensurate with experience and qualifications.\r\n\r\n<strong>Application Procedures</strong>\r\n\r\nApplication Procedures\r\nApply online: <a href="https://phl.applitrack.com/vsba/onlineapp/default.aspx?AppliTrackJobID=197&amp;ref=">https://phl.applitrack.com/vsba/onlineapp/default.aspx?AppliTrackJobID=197&amp;ref=</a>\r\n\r\nCompleted applications are due by May 27, 2022.\r\n\r\nCandidates should not make contact with school board members. Inquiries should be directed to Gina Patterson, Executive Director, Virginia School Boards Association, 200 Hansen Road, Charlottesville, VA 22911, 434-295-8722 or gina@vsba.org.\r\n\r\n<em>Equal Opportunity Employer </em>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<h3>Applitrack</h3>\r\nTo view a list of all positions that are <strong>currently accepting applications</strong>, please visit Application Procedures\r\nApply online: <a href="https://phl.applitrack.com/vsba/onlineapp/default.aspx?all=1">https://phl.applitrack.com/vsba/onlineapp/default.aspx?all=1</a>\r\n\r\nApplications for specific positions are linked below when available.\r\n<h4>To be notified when Superintendent Searches are available, please contact Tom Brewster, assistant executive director at tom@vsba.org or 1-800-446-8722.</h4>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Eligibility Requirements for Virginia Superintendents</strong>\r\nIMPORTANT NOTE: To be appointed as a superintendent in VIRGINIA, one must be listed on the "Eligible List of Division Superintendents" approved by the Virginia Board of Education. <em><strong>The Board of Education only meets eight or nine times per year which can cause delays in processing the applications for licensure. We encourage you to reach out ASAP to the Virginia Department of Education. </strong></em>For information regarding this list, contact the Office of Professional Licensure, State Department of Education, P.O. Box 2120, Richmond, VA 23218-2120, Telephone: (804) 371-2522.\r\n\r\nClick <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="https://www.vsba.org/services/other_superintendent_searches" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.vsba.org/services/other_superintendent_searches">here</a> for searches not being conducted by VSBA', 'Current Superintendent Searches', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '606-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-10 13:38:48', '2022-05-10 17:38:48', '', 606, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10656', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10657, 5, '2022-05-10 13:44:54', '2022-05-10 17:44:54', 'Reporters and local media outlets play an important role in public education. School division leaders rely on responsible reporting by local media representatives so that our community members receive timely information about division initiatives and programs. Considering the impact that media coverage can have on community attitudes and beliefs, the Media Honor Roll was created to recognize fair and balanced reporting about our schools and Virginia’s public education system.\r\n\r\nEach year, in the early Fall, the <em>VSBA Media Honor Roll</em> recognizes media representatives in three categories:  <strong>print</strong>, <strong>radio</strong>, and <strong>television</strong>. Criteria for honorees include the following:\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li>Makes the effort to get to know the superintendent and board chair.</li>\r\n 	<li>Understands the division’s mission and goals.</li>\r\n 	<li>Reports school news in a manner that is fair, accurate, and balanced.</li>\r\n 	<li>Gives a high-profile position to good news about schools.</li>\r\n 	<li>Regularly visits the schools, attends board meetings, etc.</li>\r\n 	<li>Maintains a policy of “no surprises” by sharing information with school representatives.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nPlease note that in addition to submitting individual reporters, you also can submit entire stations or newspapers. The deadline for receipt of the submission form and resolution is <strong>August 22, 2022.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MediaHonorRoll2022">Click here for the Online Form. </a>\r\n<a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/MediaHonorRollGuide_2022.pdf">Click Here for the 2022 Guide.</a>\r\n\r\nLater this year, VSBA will publish the Media Honor Roll in the VSBA Newsletter to recognize those honored through this program. We also will send you personalized certificates electronically that are suitable for presentation to reporters at a board meeting.\r\n\r\nFor additional information, please contact Brittany Moore, member services coordinator, at 434-295-8722 or email <a href="mailto:brittany@vsba.org">brittany@vsba.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<em>Participation in VSBA initiatives and observances is optional. Any related materials from the Association are shared as suggested ideas and resources for implementation. Member school boards may choose not to participate locally.</em>\r\n<h3>Congratulations to our 2021 honorees:</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Alleghany County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Darrell Gleason, The Virginian Review</li>\r\n 	<li>Jerry Clark, The Alleghany Journal</li>\r\n 	<li>Mark Pifer, The Recorder</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Appomattox County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Dave Walls, WSET - ABC-13</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Bedford County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Jamey Cross, The News &amp; Advance</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Caroline County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Ted Schubel, B101.5</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Carroll County</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>David Broyles, The Carroll News</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Covington City</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Jerome Johnson, The Virginian Review &amp; The Recorder</li>\r\n 	<li>Jerry Clark, Alleghany Journal</li>\r\n 	<li>Darrell Gleason, The Virginian Review</li>\r\n 	<li>Gregory A. 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Build brand awareness with school governance teams at the VSBA 2022 Annual Convention Exhibit Hall by reserving your booth now.\r\n\r\nEach booth includes two boxed lunches on Thursday for your representatives (additional available for purchase for one other representative), two chairs, draped table, carpeted exhibit area, wireless internet access, company identification sign, listing in the convention program, an opportunity for face-to-face marketing to a variety of education decision-makers, breakfasts, coffee breaks, and other events in the exhibit area.\r\n\r\nBooths will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis, and the best go fast! To confirm your spot at the Exhibit Hall please make sure to send in your payment to VSBA no later than two weeks after being invoiced. Please see below for the brochure for more information. 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(10673, 3, '2022-05-11 14:13:10', '2022-05-11 18:13:10', '<h3><img class="size-full wp-image-8110 alignnone" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Copy-of-2020-Conference-Headers-6.png" alt="" width="820" height="200">\r\n<strong>2022 VSBA Annual Convention</strong>\r\n<strong>November 16 – 18, 2022</strong>\r\n<strong>Colonial Williamsburg Resort</strong></h3>\r\n<a class="mtli_attachment mtli_pdf" href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2022-AC-Brochure.pdf">Please click here to view a 2022 VSBA Annual Convention Brief Schedule of Events. </a>\r\n<p class="Default">For questions or more information, contact Mikaela Coffey, Coordinator of Board Development at mikaela@vsbaDOTorg or 1-800-446-8722.</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySkWHG6M9FU">Click Here to View the 2021 AC Recap Video</a></p>\r\n<img class="aligncenter wp-image-10321 size-full" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/hello-may-Poster-2.png" alt="" width="1440" height="1920">\r\n\r\nDisclaimer: <em>Participation in VSBA initiatives and observances is optional. Any related materials from the Association are shared as suggested ideas and resources for implementation. Member school boards may choose not to participate locally.</em>', 'Annual Convention', '2022 VSBA Annual Convention is November 16 – 18, 2022 in Colonial Williamsburg Resort. The convention brief schedule of events is available. ', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '902-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-11 14:13:10', '2022-05-11 18:13:10', '', 902, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10673', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10674, 3, '2022-07-06 14:46:41', '2022-07-06 18:46:41', '<h3><img src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Copy-of-2020-Conference-Headers-6.png" sizes="(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px" srcset="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Copy-of-2020-Conference-Headers-6.png 820w, https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Copy-of-2020-Conference-Headers-6-300x73.png 300w, https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Copy-of-2020-Conference-Headers-6-768x187.png 768w" alt="" width="820" height="200">\n2022 VSBA Annual Convention Contests &amp; Competitions</h3>\n<span style="color: #e11a3b;"><strong>2022 VSBA Exhibition of School Architecture Competition\n</strong></span>The VSBA Exhibition of School Architecture is held annually in conjunction with the VSBA Annual Convention (November 16-18, 2022), which is attended by over 1,000 school division leaders from across the Commonwealth. The goal of the exhibition is to raise awareness among board members about the relationship between good design and effective teaching and learning. VSBA invites your firm to submit exemplary projects. Projects will be judged, and exceptional projects will garner recognition.\n\nEntries are now being accepted. The application deadline is September 12th and project slides are due by October 3rd. We look forward to seeing what great work you have done in Virginia''s schools. Please contact Brittany Moore, VSBA membership services coordinator, at brittany@vsba.org or 434-295-8722 should you have any questions.\n\n<a href="https://files.constantcontact.com/fef3b5da701/e411c06c-b7e2-4f57-8241-6dbea92a1b7d.pdf?rdr=true">Click Here to View the Contest Brochure</a>!\n\n<strong>Thank You to Our Sponsor:</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11654" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/first-citizens-bank-logo-300x91.png" alt="" width="300" height="91">\n\n<span style="color: #e11a3b;"><strong><img class="alignleft wp-image-10676" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Artwork_VSBA-2022-02-002-1.jpg" alt="" width="273" height="275"></strong></span>\n\n<span style="color: #e11a3b;"><strong>VSBA 5K Run/Walk</strong></span>\n<span class="JsGRdQ">We are looking forward to the 18th Annual VSBA 5K Run/Walk sponsored by Quinn Evans, and co-sponsored by Ascent and DMWPV! The 5K is scheduled to take place Thursday morning of the convention starting at 7:00 am. Awards are presented at the Closing General Session for:</span>\n<ul>\n 	<li><span class="JsGRdQ">Fastest Run (Male and Female Category)</span></li>\n 	<li><span class="JsGRdQ">Fastest Walk (Male and Female Category)</span></li>\n 	<li><span class="JsGRdQ">Team Spirit</span></li>\n 	<li><span class="JsGRdQ">Best Individual Spirit</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p class="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-justify para-style-body"><span class="JsGRdQ">All registrants for the 5K will receive a free t-shirt for participating! You do not want to miss out, so make sure that you register today!</span></p>\n<a href="https://register.chronotrack.com/r/66531">Click here to register for your spot in the line up!</a>\n\nFor questions or more information, contact Mikaela Coffey, Coordinator of Board Development at <a href="mailto:mikaela@vsba.org">mikaela@vsba.org</a> or 1-800-446-8722.', 'Annual Convention Contests and Competitions', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '6645-autosave-v1', '', '', '2022-07-06 14:46:41', '2022-07-06 18:46:41', '', 6645, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10674', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(10681, 7, '2022-05-11 16:30:57', '2022-05-11 20:30:57', '<strong>WHAT IS THE VSBA SHOWCASES FOR SUCCESS?</strong>\r\nAs a means of encouraging community awareness and positive press coverage of public education, the Virginia School Boards Association is inviting school divisions to recommend programs and initiatives that would serve as appropriate “Showcases for Success” in public education. Last year, 92 programs were profiled and the list was shared with journalists, school board members, superintendents, legislators, and top state officials. Press coverage was generated statewide, and this project served to be an effective tool for disarming the critics of public education.\r\n\r\n<strong>WHAT WAS THIS YEAR’S FOCUS?</strong>\r\nThe focus of the 2022 VSBA Showcases for Success is <em>Virginia Public Schools: Setting the Precedent</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>WHO DO I CONTACT IF I HAVE A QUESTION?</strong>\r\nBrittany Moore, coordinator of membership services, at <a href="mailto:brittany@vsba.org">brittany@vsba.org</a> or 434-295-8722\r\n\r\n<a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2022ShowcasesforSuccess.pdf">Click Here to View the Special Edition Newsletter.</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<h2>2022 Showcases for Success</h2>\r\n<strong>Alleghany County Public Schools: Middle School CTE Initiative </strong>\r\nClifton Middle School in Alleghany County is placing a growing emphasis on Career and Technical Education. The CTE classes have been revamped to provide students with more hands-on-learning experiences. Students in Grades 6, 7 and 8 are using technology, tools, and equipment to construct individual and group projects in class. The goal is to enhance the students’ awareness of the realm of possibilities offered to them through Career and Technical Education. The school celebrated Career and Technical Education Month in February 2022. The Technology Education classes combined with Business classes to study workplace readiness skills. Guest speakers addressed the classes during about career opportunities and students participated in a virtual career fair through Junior Achievement. Technology Education has been approved to change to Agriculture Education for the 2022-2023 school year. Through Agriculture Education students will cover topics such as CTE/Agriculture careers, workplace readiness skills, animal science, plant science, natural resources, and agriculture mechanics. The CTE/Agriculture program will be designed to feed students to an agriculture program at Alleghany High School. An FFA chapter will be established at the middle school to help expand students’ skills and knowledge.\r\nContact Information: Jennifer Hannah, Technology Education Teacher, <a href="mailto:jhannah@alleghany.k12.va.us">jhannah@alleghany.k12.va.us</a>, (540) 863-1726\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Alleghany County Public Schools: Living History Project </strong>\r\nDuring Black History Month in 2022, Alleghany High School in Alleghany County used the Living History Project to celebrate the achievements of African Americans. African Americans who live or once lived in Alleghany County were invited to speak to Social Studies classes. The speakers spoke on a variety of topics either in-person or through Zoom video conferencing. Former African American athletes highlighted how sports helped them focus on their academic studies. Former teachers spoke of how they were inspired by their students. Other speakers shared their stories and experiences of transitioning from segregated to integrated schools in the 1960s. Many of them shared warm memories from their all-Black schools, which are now closed. All of the guest speakers stressed to students the need for kindness in today’s world and they challenged them to overcome obstacles they will face in life. The students were left with new knowledge and goals that will not be easily forgotten. All of the sessions were recorded so they can be accessed to provide a living history to future generations.\r\nContact Information: Mallory Thompson, Social Studies Teacher, <a href="mailto:mnicely2@alleghany.k12.va.us">mnicely2@alleghany.k12.va.us</a>, (540) 863-1700\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Alleghany County Public Schools: Creative Alternative Learning </strong>\r\nTo address learning loss, Callaghan Elementary School in Alleghany County has implemented a creative alternative schedule for Title I and remedial instruction. The staff has restructured Title I delivery from a pull-out model to an all-inclusive block-style schedule. In addition, a 50-minute block time is being dedicated daily for remedial instruction to all students in grades K-4. Instruction almost exclusively occurs in strategic small groupings across grade levels during the dedicated block of time. Individual classrooms from K-4 exchange students and occasionally, some students travel to grade-level groups either below or above to receive appropriate instruction. Student groupings are based on data points from multiple sources such as PALs, VKRP and SchoolPace (American Reading Company). All students receive personalized remediation regardless of Title I qualification and participation. The traditional 30 minutes per day, single classroom pull-out model for only students who qualify for Title I instruction has been replaced. The creative alternative schedule for Title I and remedial instructional instruction is considered a work in progress and the staff is making adjustments as it moves forward.\r\nContact Information: Josh Craft, Principal, <a href="mailto:jcraft@alleghany.k12.va.us">jcraft@alleghany.k12.va.us</a>, (540) 965-1810\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Appomattox County Public Schools: Raider Ready Day </strong>\r\nRaider Ready Day (RRD) is a student engagement event for eighth-grade students at Appomattox Middle School to explore high school CTE programs before selecting their courses. RRD is designed and led by current students in all sixteen CTE programs at Appomattox County High School. The interactive experience gives students an opportunity to see each program and all the spaces and ask questions about the courses. The goal is to increase enrollment in CTE programs by improving awareness of the overall opportunities and possibilities for industry certifications and career readiness due to participation in specific programs. The success of this event is primarily a result of being led by students. The energy and excitement the high school students show when sharing what they are learning and how it has impacted them is powerful, and the passion is contagious. The teacher in the room is the facilitator, but the students are the ambassadors of their programs.\r\nContact Information: Dr. Amy D. Huskin, Director of Curriculum, Instruction, &amp; CTE, <a href="mailto:adhuskin@acpsweb.com">adhuskin@acpsweb.com</a>, 434-352-8251\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Botetourt County Public Schools: Career &amp; Technical Education </strong>\r\nThe Career and Technical Education program in Botetourt County has and continues to have a transcendent impact on student achievement. Any of the classes taken on an individual basis are impressive but as a whole the results are simply spectacular. The 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 CTE annual Performance Report data shows a 100% graduation rate for students who were CTE completers. Those students also showed excellent performance on SOL tests, post-program placement and certification attainment. Quite simply, students involved in the CTE programs graduate and continue on their chosen career paths. Students, parents and community members are recognizing the success as evident by the fact that even as division enrollment is in a decline the enrollment in CTE programs continues to increase according to the division SEDF report. This is a testament to the variety and quality of the programs and instructors. The CTE program in Botetourt County cultivates success.\r\nContact Information: Mike Ketron, Supervisor of Career and Technical Education, <a href="mailto:mketron@bcps.k12.va.us">mketron@bcps.k12.va.us</a>, (540) 473-8216\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Bristol Virginia Public Schools: Treatment Team for Students</strong>\r\nA team of professionals at Van Pelt Elementary meets every Monday morning to discuss students in need. Roughly 10% of the at-risk student population is discussed. Team members represent multiple agencies and community partners. These weekly meetings allow the team to maintain consistent communication and develop a proactive plan to help students. The team approach prevents duplication of services and allows this group of professionals to focus on the needs of each child. These meetings have proven to be an invaluable tool to help Van Pelt’s students succeed.\r\nContact Information: Jared Rader, Principal, <a href="mailto:jrader@bvps.org">jrader@bvps.org</a>, 276 821 5770\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Caroline County Public Schools: CCPS Summer Academy Extravaganza </strong>\r\nAmidst a pandemic, Caroline County was up for the challenge to bridge the learning gap while also connecting the work to the social emotional needs of our learners. The Summer Academy Extravaganza was offered to rising kindergarten through eight grade students. At the elementary level the morning began with social-emotional connections which looked like morning meetings with integrated Mind Up Curriculum and Sanford Harmony activities. Following students were focused on literacy and math skill building lessons which were crafted by reading and math specialists. Rich literature was purchased to ground the learning and link cross-curricular content. Students received breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. The afternoon consisted of self-selected clubs and activities such as STEM, plants and animals, cooking, cheerleading, arts &amp; crafts, dance, and much more. Students were actively engaged, connecting with their peers, and enjoying the full day program.\r\nContact Information: Terrie Haley, Director of Elementary Education, <a href="mailto:thaley@ccps.us">thaley@ccps.us</a>, 804-633-5088\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Caroline County Public Schools: Family Engagement &amp; The NEW Caroline Cruiser </strong>\r\nCCPS has a renewed focus on family engagement since the COVID 19 pandemic. We have a full-time family engagement staff member at each of our five schools to support students and families by connecting them to outside resources. In addition, the federal programs department sponsored a wrap the bus project, which revitalized an older CCPS bus into a community bus. The Caroline Cruiser was born and now travels into throughout our community for events with free school supplies and educational materials for families.\r\nContact Information: Lisa Stevens, <a href="mailto:lstevens@ccps.us">lstevens@ccps.us</a>. Andrea Ross, Director of Federal Programs, aross@ccps.us, 804-633-5088\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Chesterfield County Public Schools: FACE van </strong>\r\nAt the start of the 2021-22 school year, Chesterfield County Public Schools launched the Family and Community Engagement van, a turnkey resource for schools. The FACE van is packed with everything schools need to connect with families in a fun, easy-to-access way. The FACE van brings the fun of popcorn and snow cones plus Wi-Fi and Chromebooks. “Chesterfield County Public Schools is on the go, connecting with students and families where they are,” said Dr. Merv Daugherty, superintendent of Chesterfield County Public Schools. “We are not waiting for families to come to us: We are on the go and heading out to meet our families where they are.” Chesterfield County government donated the used van to the school system, and the Chesterfield Education Foundation, TowneBank Chesterfield, Uptown Alley and Fast Signs of Midlothian funded the van’s transformation.\r\nContact Information: Amy Bartilotti, Office of Family and Community Engagement coordinator, <a href="mailto:amelia_bartilotti@ccpsnet.net">amelia_bartilotti@ccpsnet.net</a>, 804-216-0155\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Chesterfield County Public Schools: Super Senior Passport </strong>\r\nChesterfield County residents who are 60 or older are invited to apply for a Super Senior Passport. Designed to thank senior residents for their support and encourage them to remain active in Chesterfield County Public Schools, the Super Senior Passport is free and provides: • Discounted fees for Super Senior Passport classes and other adult education classes on a space-available basis • Free admission to school athletic events (except playoffs and tournaments) • Free admission to music and theater productions in schools • Free admission to certain other school activities for which fees are charged.\r\nContact Information: Leigh Ann McKelway, writer-editor, <a href="mailto:leighann_mckelway@ccpsnet.net">leighann_mckelway@ccpsnet.net</a>, 804-661-0650\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Chesterfield County Public Schools: CCPS on the Go! newsletter </strong>\r\nChesterfield County Public Schools is a growing (more than 63,000 students at last count), award-winning school system. But 65% of Chesterfield County households do not have children 18 or younger. Even though a majority of the community is not connected on a daily basis to Chesterfield County Public Schools, we want all residents to be proud of and support Chesterfield schools. That’s one reason the school system launched Chesterfield on the Go!, a three-times-a year newsletter that is mailed to every home in the county. Full of info and images from all 65 schools within Chesterfield County Public Schools, this printed publication is initially funded through federal relief funds to improve reach of communication throughout the school district. The first edition was published in October 2021. Digital versions in English and Spanish are on mychesterfieldschools.com.\r\nContact Information: Leigh Ann McKelway, writer-editor, <a href="mailto:leighann_mckelway@ccpsnet.net">leighann_mckelway@ccpsnet.net</a>, 804-661-0650\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>CodeRVA Regional High School: CodeRVA Regional High School </strong>\r\nCodeRVA Regional High School is a unique program unlike any other in the Commonwealth. Fifteen school divisions across the Richmond region collaborate to provide students access to a high quality, computer science focused education open to all 9th grade students residing in a partner division through a barrier free admission process. CodeRVA blends workplace skills such as using Agile methodologies and scheduling instruction based on weekly formative data with the best of blended learning. All 11th and 12th grade students also participate in six week, immersive internship experiences to prepare them for college and career pathways upon graduation. CodeRVA offers an Associate Degree in Science with a Specialization in Computer Science through JSRCC, as well as valuable networking opportunities for all students with businesses located in the Richmond region. CodeRVA’s innovative instruction, as well as its emphasis on computer science, can be adapted for use in traditional school settings.\r\nContact Information: Kume Goranson, Ed.D., Executive Director, <a href="mailto:kume.goranson@coderva.org">kume.goranson@coderva.org</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Covington City Public Schools: Nearpod Interactive Learning </strong>\r\nA unique and powerful instructional software tool that is being used by Covington City Public Schools is Nearpod. Nearpod is used at Covington High School to engage students with interactive learning experiences. The interactive software allows a slide presentation to appear on the students’ computer screens for easy viewing. The slides on a student’s screen advance as the teacher changes the slide. Students respond to open-ended questions (test for understanding), view videos that are embedded in presentations, take quizzes, and engage in Time to Climb. Time to Climb is an interactive learning experience with competitive games, virtual reality, blogs, polls and more. Virtual reality is a favorite for students because they can go anywhere in the world and see a geographic location. Students have the ability to zoom in and pan an area they are visiting. They also have an option to explore at a 360-degree angle. Through Nearpod’s virtual reality, students have taken tours around the world. Many teachers at Covington High School have developed a daily routine of using Nearpod in their classrooms. Nearpod also benefits students who are absent from school. A Student Paced feature allows a student who was absent from school to easily log in to access information they missed from the classroom.\r\nContact Information: Lisa Richards, Library Media Specialist, <a href="mailto:lrichards@covington.k12.va.us">lrichards@covington.k12.va.us</a>, (540) 965-1410\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Covington City Public Schools: Edgemont Primary School and The Science of Reading</strong>\r\nEPS would like to highlight our implementation and successes in the science of reading. The science of reading focuses on the foundation that teachers understand the brain processes and developments required in order for a child to be able to read. Edgemont teachers now teach explicit, systematic, multi-sensory, and direct phonics that follow an Orton Gillingham Scope and Sequence. Teachers have and are receiving quality professional development to align to SOR. We have seen amazing reading and spelling gains in all grade levels for all of our different learners. We have incorporated decodable texts that increase decoding and fluency to reach grade level reading mastery. In addition to teaching phonics intensely, we work on comprehension and language skills with good, quality literature and interesting and engaging informational texts. Our goal is to help every different learner find success and increase their knowledge while using their analytical and creative thinking abilities.\r\nContact Information: Jessica Fauber, Literacy Coach, <a href="mailto:jfauber@covington.k12.va.us">jfauber@covington.k12.va.us</a>, 540-965-1420\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Dinwiddie County Public Schools: Elementary Parent and Teacher Universities </strong>\r\nOur new Title I Family Engagement Specialist conducts weekly webinars with parents. Highlights include: understanding PALS, local authors reading to families, promoting literacy at home, exploring your local library, closing the readability gap, and word study. The Specialist has grown our family engagement outreach program to engage parents during times that best fit their schedules. Universities are held throughout the school day, nights, and weekends. Topics evolve from the on-going Needs Assessment as well as input received via chats/surveys during the universities. The universities are building strong relationships with parents. The engagement sessions are responsive to the needs of the community. For sessions, parents have access to materials via home visits or backpack supplies ahead of time. Offering materials needed removes barriers and increases collaboration and communication. The universities have been an integral step to meet parents where they are, build relationships and partnerships, and offer any support needed.\r\nContact Information: Paige Hannon, Director of Elementary Education and Title I, <a href="mailto:phannon@dcpsnet.org">phannon@dcpsnet.org</a>, 804-469-4190\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Dinwiddie County Public Schools: Dinwiddie County Government Day</strong>\r\nThe Dinwiddie Public Schools Comprehensive Plan defines priority one as student success: academically, personally and civically. To ensure students graduate life ready, DCPS has developed specific experiences for each student prior to graduation. These experiences, like Government Day, are designed to help students gain a deeper understanding of how to build our community and what choices are made by our board of supervisors to continue the growth of our community. Government Day is a community collaboration. Students spend the day walking in the shoes of our county Board of Supervisors. Board members work alongside a small group of high school seniors to weigh the pros and cons of the senior staff proposals given to them and develop a budget presentation to justify their choices. This experience is built into the curriculum and includes other virtual simulations, discussions and assignments focusing on economic development and the role of the local government.\r\nContact Information: Carly Woolfolk, Director of Secondary Education and CTE, <a href="mailto:cwoolfolk@dcpsnet.org">cwoolfolk@dcpsnet.org</a>, 804-469-4190\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Fauquier County Public Schools: FCPS Virtual Academy</strong>\r\nAt Fauquier County Public Schools, we believe in giving each student what they need in order to succeed. While we realize that face-to-face, in-person instruction is best for most of our students, it is not best for all. Some students thrive in a virtual learning environment and can benefit from a stand-alone virtual program. The FCPS Virtual Academy launched in August of 2021 as another personalized learning path to provide an engaging, student-centered alternative learning experience where traditional barriers of time, place, and availability are removed. Each Virtual Academy student has his/her own unique story. This year, the over 170 students who chose Virtual Academy learned from a cadre of 9 full-time and 12 part-time teachers. With a mix of synchronous and asynchronous learning throughout the school day, students accessed their instruction through Canvas and Google Meet. Learn more at bit.ly/FCPS1Virtual and https://fcps1.news/Virtual-Academy.\r\nContact Information: Michael Snell, Virtual Academy Coordinator, <a href="mailto:msnell@fcps1.org">msnell@fcps1.org</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Franklin City Public Schools: Vanguard Early College Academy </strong>\r\nVanguard Early College Academy has enabled numerous qualifying Franklin High School students the opportunity to earn an Associate Degree in Computer Science through Tidewater Community College. They are able to take courses either online or in-person in addition to their regular high school classes. This is no mere summer computer camp; the students who want to be in VECA prove their commitment to learn by maintaining at least a 3.0 GPA. They must also successfully complete Algebra I and Geometry by the end of their freshman year. Ultimately, students gain a foundation of knowledge and skills for nearly any career that requires the use of computers (support, programming, websites, etc.). In addition, students may earn an Associate Degree in General Studies from Camp Community College. Earning these degrees can serve as an incentive to further one’s education.\r\nContact Information: Ms. Kelsey Bunch, Franklin High School Guidance Registrar, <a href="mailto:kbunch@fcpsva.org">kbunch@fcpsva.org</a>, 757-562-5187, Ext. 1197\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Fredericksburg City Public Schools: Start on Success (SOS) </strong>\r\nStart on Success (SOS) is a school-work program designed for students with disabilities pursuing a standard or advanced diploma. It was developed by the Virginia Department of Education and implemented in collaboration with the Center on Transition Innovations at VCU and the Department for Aging and Rehabilitation Services. SOS is a year-long program designed to provide classroom instruction during the first semester and a paid internship at a local business during the second semester of the student’s senior year. The program is spearheaded by JM teacher, Megan Waite, Job Counselor, Angie Poteet and CTE Coordinator, Kristi Allison.\r\nContact Information: Kristi Allison, CTE Coordinator, <a href="mailto:kallison@cityschools.com">kallison@cityschools.com</a>, 540-372-1130\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Goochland County Public Schools: Work-based Learning Partnership </strong>\r\nGoochland County Public Schools has developed a partnership with Greenswell Growers, a Goochland County business that recently opened a state-of-the-art hydroponics facility that is expected to produce about 3.7 million pounds of leafy greens for distribution across the mid-Atlantic over the next 3 years, all with 95 percent less water consumption and carbon-neutral energy. GCPS’s Work-Based Learning (WBL) program coordinates workplace experiences that are related to a student’s career goals and/or interests, sometimes integrated with instruction, and performed in partnership with local businesses and organizations. GCPS and Greenswell are working together to create engaging coursework that will give each student academic and hands-on experiences meant to prepare them for careers of the future. Greenswell Growers has collaborated with GHS’s Career and Technical Education program to provide curricula that teach students about Controlled Environmental Agriculture, marketing, operations and logistics, mechatronics, and culinary arts.\r\nContact Information: Bruce Watson, Director of Career and Technical Education, <a href="mailto:bwatson@glnd.k12.va.us">bwatson@glnd.k12.va.us</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Goochland County Public Schools: Youth Mental Health First Aid </strong>\r\nWhile almost everyone has the basic first aid skills needed for minor cuts, aches, or pains, the number of people in a community who know first aid for youth mental health or substance abuse is limited. To meet that need, trained Goochland County Public Schools staff members have offered Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) sessions during the 2021-22 school year. Even before the pandemic, mental health challenges were the leading cause of disability and poor life outcomes in young people, with up to 1 in 5 children ages 3 to 17 in the United States with a reported mental, emotional, developmental, or behavioral disorder. The end goal of the program is to increase the number of people in the community who can assist a child or teenager and provide them with the mental health or substance abuse first aid that they need until they can secure professional care.\r\nContact Information: Dr. Jennifer Waggener, Executive Director of Exceptional Education, <a href="mailto:jwaggener@glnd.k12.va.us">jwaggener@glnd.k12.va.us</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Goochland County Public Schools: Advance College Academy </strong>\r\nWith annual tuition ranging between $9,000 and $23,000, attending a public, 4-year college in Virginia can add up quickly for students and their families. In Goochland County Public Schools, students can earn up to 60 credit hours before graduation in the division’s Advance College Academy (ACA) – greatly reducing the steep cost of a college degree. ACA is a partnership between GCPS and Reynolds Community College and is open to students with a 3.0-grade-point average or higher who have taken Algebra I by the ninth grade. Courses are taught by certified Goochland High School teachers and include the same content as courses taught on the community college campus. In ACA, students can take rigorous college courses in a supportive environment and can earn an associate degree prior to high school graduation. This opens up options such as graduating early, double majoring, taking a lighter load each semester, or studying abroad.\r\nContact Information: Dr. Elizabeth Fowler, Advanced Programs and Equity Specialist, <a href="mailto:bfowler@glnd.k12.va.us">bfowler@glnd.k12.va.us</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Goochland County Public Schools: Youth Mental Health First Aid</strong>\r\nWhile almost everyone has the basic first aid skills needed for minor cuts, aches, or pains, the number of people in a community who know first aid for youth mental health or substance abuse is limited. To meet that need, trained Goochland County Public Schools staff members have offered Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) sessions during the 2021-22 school year. Even before the pandemic, mental health challenges were the leading cause of disability and poor life outcomes in young people, with up to 1 in 5 children ages 3 to 17 in the United States with a reported mental, emotional, developmental, or behavioral disorder. The end goal of the program is to increase the number of people in the community who can assist a child or teenager and provide them with the mental health or substance abuse first aid that they need until they can secure professional care.\r\nContact Information: Dr. Jennifer Waggener, Executive Director of Exceptional Education, <a href="mailto:jwaggener@glnd.k12.va.us">jwaggener@glnd.k12.va.us</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Goochland County Public Schools: Advance College Academy </strong>\r\nWith annual tuition ranging between $9,000 and $23,000, attending a public, 4-year college in Virginia can add up quickly for students and their families. In Goochland County Public Schools, students can earn up to 60 credit hours before graduation in the division’s Advance College Academy (ACA) – greatly reducing the steep cost of a college degree. ACA is a partnership between GCPS and Reynolds Community College and is open to students with a 3.0-grade-point average or higher who have taken Algebra I by the ninth grade. Courses are taught by certified Goochland High School teachers and include the same content as courses taught on the community college campus. In ACA, students can take rigorous college courses in a supportive environment and can earn an associate degree prior to high school graduation. This opens up options such as graduating early, double majoring, taking a lighter load each semester, or studying abroad.\r\nContact Information: Dr. Elizabeth Fowler, Advanced Programs and Equity Specialist, <a href="mailto:bfowler@glnd.k12.va.us">bfowler@glnd.k12.va.us</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Hampton City Public Schools: The Bridge Program </strong>\r\nHampton City Schools Department of School Social Work has responded to the mental health crisis with the development of BRIDGE, a school-based behavioral health program. The goal of this program is to “bridge the gap between school, home, community, social emotional and behavioral health.” Within the department, a clinical team was formed. This team provides individual and group counseling, therapy sessions, comprehensive clinical assessments, and person-centered treatment plans. Consultative services are offered to school staff and help given to families to coordinate community resources. Using an outpatient model as a guide, the program is unique in that students are able to be referred and receive mental health resources during the school day. Schools are a natural setting for therapy and families have direct, convenient access to a mental health provider. Having another mental health professional on school grounds also helps develop staff understandings, decreasing stigma associated with mental health needs.\r\nContact Information: Trena Hatcher, executive director of student support, <a href="mailto:thatcher@hampton.k12.va.us">thatcher@hampton.k12.va.us</a>, 757-727-2020\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Hampton City Schools: Dual Language Immersion (DLI) Program</strong>\r\nHampton City Schools (HCS) Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program began in the 2021-2022 school year with a single kindergarten class. The class has approximately one half native English-speaking and one half native Spanish-speaking students. Students spend a portion of the day learning mathematics, science, and Spanish language arts in Spanish and the remainder of the day learning social studies and English language arts in English. Beginning the year with limited knowledge of the other language, students were immersed from day one into the target languages. The DLI program uses the same comprehensive, standard-driven curriculum as traditional kindergarten classes. The combination of native English and Spanish-speaking students provides opportunities to practice both languages in an authentic environment while demonstrating their academic understanding. Additionally, students are engaged in cultural understanding and diversity and learning to think in different ways. HCS is excited to expand and further develop the DLI program based on this year’s successes!\r\nContact Information: Andrew Lloyd, Curriculum Leader of World Languages and ELL, <a href="mailto:alloyd1@hampton.k12.va.us">alloyd1@hampton.k12.va.us</a>, 757-727-2026\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Hanover County Public Schools: Hanover Salutes</strong>\r\nHanover County Public Schools conducted a virtual Hanover Salutes program to honor students making a commitment to serve in the United States Armed Services after graduation from high school. Specifically, we recognized students enlisting in any of the five services, attending a Service Academy, or attending a college or University on an ROTC scholarship. The program included a message from Dr. Michael Gill, Superintendent of Schools, and featured Major General Cedric T. Wins, the Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute. Graduates, JROTC instructors, and veteran organizations submitted videos as well. Each student was recognized and received a certificate, unit coin, printed program, and a gift card for food and fellowship with their family and friends. Developed in collaboration with school teams and community members, we were honored to recognize our future heroes.\r\nContact Information: Robert Staley, Director of Secondary Education, <a href="mailto:rstaley@hcps.us">rstaley@hcps.us</a>, (804) 365-4562\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Henrico County Public Schools: Henrico Virtual Academy</strong>\r\nWhen Henrico County Public Schools opened a new school for the 2021-22 school year, there were none of the typical challenges of last-minute construction. Instead of paving and paint, administrators and teachers were more concerned with interactive lessons, servers and bandwidth. The Henrico Virtual Academy, an entirely virtual K-12 school with a student body of more than 1,300, uses a mix of live classes and independent learning. The school has its own administrators, faculty, PTSA, clubs and other mainstays of brick-and-mortar schools. While the school grew out of virtual instruction methods pioneered during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is taking its place among a host of HCPS learning options that include career and technical education, and middle and high school specialty centers. While some students found virtual learning a challenge, others have thrived in an online environment that emphasizes flexibility and independent work.\r\nContact Information: Eileen Cox, Chief of Communications, <a href="mailto:emcox@henrico.k12.va.us">emcox@henrico.k12.va.us</a>, 804-652-3724\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Henrico County Public Schools: Equity Ambassadors</strong>\r\nAs part of a division wide effort to offer more opportunities for student input on issues of equity and diversity, Henrico County Public Schools reimagined its High School Student Congress. The new “HCPS Equity Ambassadors” includes students from each of the division’s nine comprehensive high schools, who come together to amplify student voices on issues of equity. The HCPS Department of Equity, Diversity and Opportunity works with students to design programming to foster dialogue, give students knowledge and skills to address equity issues, and enable them to engage with students from across the division. Members have led “daring dialogue” school discussions, book clubs, podcasts, mentorship programs of students who are learning English, and activities to raise cultural awareness, such as food fairs. The Equity Ambassadors program was recognized in 2020 by the National Association of Counties and was recognized as Virginia’s top 2021 project by the Virginia Association of Counties.\r\nContact Information: Eileen Cox, Chief of Communications, <a href="mailto:emcox@henrico.k12.va.us">emcox@henrico.k12.va.us</a>, 804-652-3724\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Hopewell City Public Schools: CREW CIRCLES Initiative</strong>\r\nCREW Academy is a school community within Hopewell City Public Schools that brings together representation from over 40 Hopewell teachers and their classrooms to focus on elevating the core values of Community, Real-World Deeper Learning, Empathy &amp; Equity, and Championing the Wins! As a result of the pandemic and the many emotional, mental, academic challenges our students are navigating, we have recently started a pilot initiative called CREW Circles. As part of the pilot, our Innovation Coaches, 4 CREW Teachers, and our Dean of Student Experience are in collaboration together in helping our students unpack more of their identity stories through their personal experiences, and the powerful life connections they are making in our schools, community, and the world around them. Our CREW Circles initiative continues to be a sacred time where our students are able to listen, share, heal, and speak from the heart. When our students begin to fully see one another as human beings and explore empathy and kindness, a deeper and more loving classroom community is fostered and transformational student experiences are created. Click the video link to see highlights from our time together.\r\nContact Information: Sommer Jones , Dean of Student Experience for K12 CREW Academy,<a href="mailto:sjones@hopewell.k12.va.us"> sjones@hopewell.k12.va.us</a>, 804-541-6400\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>King and Queen County Public Schools: Setting the Precedent through 21st CCLC Program</strong>\r\nThis year Central High School (CHS) is “Setting the Precedent” through our 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, “Tiger Academy,” as we strive to close any gaps of learning during the pandemic. Tiger Academy is offered to students to support enrichment and intervention in addition to programs in the areas of performing arts, health and wellness, visual arts, and STEM. Students have the opportunity to work with teachers in math and language arts to support their education and choose enrichment programs that they feel passionate about. Many of our amazing teachers at Central High School have become part of this program. In addition to our after school program, the Tiger Academy has also set the precedent for community events throughout the year. Through this program, we have completed a Turkey Trot, a Family Wellness Night, and an upcoming Financial Literacy Night. These opportunities allow for students, families, and community members to learn beneficial skills and connect with resources in the area.\r\nContact Information: Mrs. Ashley Edwards, Principal, <a href="mailto:aedwards@kqps.net">aedwards@kqps.net</a>, 804-785-6102\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>King and Queen County Public Schools: Project Based Learning- Making History in King and Queen County</strong>\r\nSecond graders at Lawson-Marriott Elementary are actively engaged in real world, meaningful learning through a teaching method called Project Based Learning. In one such unit, students learned about local history to better understand their and others’ roles in the community. The question that guided their work was: How has our past influenced our present in King and Queen County and how might we influence our future? To answer this question, they researched the history of their county and used primary source materials to learn about the experiences and perspectives of multiple community members. Students used what they learned to document and share the multiple histories that coexist in their local community. Completion of this project entailed multiple authentic public products, including podcasts and historical journals about their individuals and findings. It culminated in a living wax museum for the community as their final presentation of learning. Through project based learning, students gain a deeper understanding of course content, develop a genuine love of learning, and learn real life skills such as solving problems, collaboration, and communication.\r\nContact Information: Mrs. Vivian Kazee, 2nd Grade Teacher, <a href="mailto:vkazee@kqps.net">vkazee@kqps.net</a>, 804-769-3116\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>King and Queen County Public Schools: Reverse Caroling at King and Queen Elementary</strong>\r\nDuring the month of December, King and Queen Elementary (KQES) has a tradition of singing holiday songs to the community. In the past, this event has attracted countless community members to come out and celebrate. This holiday season, KQES was faced with a challenge. How could we have a holiday program while dealing with the obstacles of COVID-19? After a bit of brainstorming, the KQES team was able to quickly problem solve. Reverse caroling! Under the guidance of KQES’s music teacher, Mr. James Lantz, students, depending on age level, learned 1-3 songs that they planned to sing to the community. Instead of gathering the parents and guests inside of one location, students were assigned performance locations throughout the building. Visitors congregated outside of the building, they were placed in small groups and assigned a caroling tour guide. The groups’ tours were staggered allowing for adequate spacing and time between performances. The guide took visitors to the different performance locations allowing everyone the opportunity to see and hear all age groups. Before exiting the building, visitors were able to warm up with warm apple cider and cookies. Aside from a little performance fatigue, KQES students shared that they enjoyed having the opportunity to perform for the community. Family members and visitors took lots of pictures, clapped, laughed and even sang along as the students of King and Queen Elementary School wowed them with their performances.\r\nContact Information: Mr. James Lantz, Music Teacher,<a href="mailto:jlantz@kqps.net"> jlantz@kqps.net</a>, 804-785-5830\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Louisa County Public Schools: LCHS Cybersecurity</strong>\r\nLouisa County Public Schools implemented a new Cybersecurity Pathway at Louisa County High School beginning in August 2021. To support this initiative, LCPS applied for a national grant and won $100,000 through the Rural Tech Project. LCPS was awarded this money and recognized as one of five winning school divisions in the nation for the implementation of this program and is now competing for an additional $100,000 at the end of 2023. We have had tremendous interest in the courses with full enrollment in all of the sections, inclusive of a virtual option for students. The course satisfaction surveys from Semester 1 provided resounding positive feedback not only about the instructor, but the course content and engaging hands-on activities. The emphasis on providing these meaningful experiences to support the course competencies has generated excitement for the pathway. The Cybersecurity classroom has been designed and created to support hands-on activities with new servers, dual monitors, and two TVs showing real-time cyber-attacks around the world. Additionally, we have had a great response from the industry partners to serve as a support system for our students.\r\nContact Information: Andrew Woolfolk, Public Information Officer, <a href="mailto:woolfoal@lcps.k12.va.us">woolfoal@lcps.k12.va.us</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Louisa County Public Schools: The MNES Book Vending Machine!</strong>\r\nThere’s a sparkling new vending machine in the hallway at Moss-Nuckols Elementary School that is causing a big buzz amongst students and staff. But this machine isn’t serving up fizzy drinks. Instead, it’s serving up books! After much suspense – and fundraising! – the MNES Book Vending Machine was officially unveiled in January 2022. It operates like any other vending machine, and features dozens of exciting literary titles! Students earn gold coins through completing reading assignments, finishing their homework, earning good grades, and performing random acts of kindness. Students then use the coins whenever they want to select their favorite book! Since its inception, the MNES Book Vending Machine has helped ignite a newfound passion and motivation for reading amongst students!\r\nContact Information: Andrew Woolfolk, Public Information Officer, <a href="mailto:woolfoal@lcps.k12.va.us">woolfoal@lcps.k12.va.us</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Louisa County Public Schools: The Patriot Path</strong>\r\nStudents at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School are now able to enjoy class amongst acorns, towering trees, and a plethora of plants thanks to the school’s new Patriot Path! Created in 2021, the Patriot Path is a 2/10th mile outdoor learning trail located on the school’s property. The path was created by instructional assistant Dawn Lipscomb as part of an effort to encourage students and educators to enjoy nature and outdoor activities as much as possible! The Patriot Path has become a valuable resource at TJES thanks to the various ways it can be used. It features an amphitheater, which allows students to perform plays or enjoy a story while sitting on stumps that serve as chairs. It also includes an outdoor classroom, complete with a whiteboard. And, of course, the trail can be used as exactly what it is, a pathway for exploration! Teachers often let their students roam free on the path, providing them the opportunity to discover fresh animal tracks or investigate the various types of plants lining the walkway. And while the path itself is inspiring enough, teachers have gone a step further by posting uplifting quotes throughout it. Perhaps most fitting is the one that features a quote from the legendary author J.R.R Tolkien: “Between every two pines, there is a doorway to a new world.”\r\nContact Information: Andrew Woolfolk, Public Information Officer, <a href="mailto:woolfoal@lcps.k12.va.us">woolfoal@lcps.k12.va.us</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Mecklenburg County Public Schools: Robust Work-Based Learning Initiative</strong>\r\nMecklenburg County Public Schools’ dedication to improving career training opportunities for students and promoting academic achievement and success is evident through their new robust work-based learning program. The system employs a full-time work-based learning specialist to develop, promote, and grow the work-based learning program. The work-based learning program focuses on offering students opportunities to connect with professionals in all career pathways, gain skills and experience through hands-on learning opportunities, partner with professional mentors for guidance, and build career connections. Work-based learning experiences assist students in meeting Profile of a Graduate graduation mandates, gaining experience in his/her chosen career pathways, and possibly obtaining future employment. These experiences are offered through partnerships with approximately 60 businesses who serve as classroom speakers, internship partners, and student mentors. Students have the opportunity to participate in work-based learning programs within CTE classes through school-based enterprises, service learning, clinical experiences, internal internships, and cooperative education. Students may also participate in community work-based learning experiences as a result of partnerships with businesses and professional mentors. Potential positions are listed on the Hiring Pool page of the Work-Based Learning website as well as the Mentorship Program page. The work-based learning program is promoted to students through classroom visits by the Career &amp; Work-Based Learning Specialist, on their website, and through flyers and brochures. In addition, students are spotlighted in an Intern Spotlight Series and these spotlights are published as Facebook posts and they are also listed on the WBL webpage. Business partners are spotlighted each Wednesday on Facebook through “Workforce Wednesday” posts.\r\nContact Information: Natalie Coronas, Career and Work Based Learning Specialist, <a href="mailto:ncoronas@mcpsweb.org">ncoronas@mcpsweb.org</a>, 434-738-6111\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Mecklenburg County Public Schools: MCPS Google Certified Educator Initiative</strong>\r\nThe Mecklenburg County Public School Instruction &amp; Technology Department expanded its professional development by cultivating Google Certified Educators throughout our Division. The Google Certification program is designed to encourage teachers to demonstrate their proficiency in using Google for Education tools and to enhance their productivity as well as their student’s productivity. The Instructional Technology Resource Teachers created a course in Canvas for teachers to complete at their own pace, as well as offered in-person training during the summer of 2021. To date, 310 Level 1 Google Certified Educator exam assessments have been taken by MCPS certified staff, with a pass rate of seventy-four percent. In addition, several staff members have passed and/or are currently working towards the Level 2 Certification. With this initiative in place, the teachers and staff have a better understanding of how to meaningfully use technology in the classroom and facilitate and inspire students'' learning and creativity.\r\nContact Information: Chrystal Elmore, ITRT, <a href="mailto:celmore@mcpsweb.org">celmore@mcpsweb.org</a>, 434-738-6111\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Mecklenburg County Public Schools: Flexible, Student-Relevant English Curriculum</strong>\r\nThe Mecklenburg County Public Schools English team is developing a new concept-based curriculum for students. The restructuring of the English curriculum focuses on current standards of learning, but offers a comprehensive study of one single concept that is relevant to students'' lives and development. There are many advantages of this curriculum for both students and teachers. It allows for student and teacher choice regarding which texts are used to cover a unit, literacy skills that are integrated and used beyond the classroom, and assessments that are written to the concept, rather than the text. Rigor and relevance go hand-in-hand as students explore texts that propel them to new heights of learning, while keeping them grounded in the foundations of Virginia''s English curriculum framework. With this initiative, the English team of Mecklenburg County Public Schools hopes to offer a more flexible, teacher-friendly guide to helping our students achieve academic success.\r\nContact Information: Kim Richey, English Teacher, <a href="mailto:krichey@mcpsweb.org">krichey@mcpsweb.org</a>, 434-738-6111\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Middlesex County Public Schools: Pathfinders Program</strong>\r\nThe Pathfinders program brings together high school juniors to explore their personal interests, skills, and strengths, as they search for the intersection between what they like, what they are good at, and what they can make a living doing. Through a variety of experiences, from college campus visits and field trips to book studies and group projects, students have unique opportunities to discover and learn things that are important to them and shape their vision of their future. Through relevant, highly individualized instruction, the Pathfinders have voice and choice in their decisions on what to study through various providers. From Medical Terminology to German to Photography, students participate in carefully designed experiences tailored to them, with the appropriate mix of assistance and challenge. With the time, support, and resources of the Pathfinders program, they become more in tune with what they want, who they are, and who they want to be.\r\nContact Information: Christine Pedersen, Pathfinders Instructor, <a href="mailto:cpedersen@mcps.k12.va.us">cpedersen@mcps.k12.va.us</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Petersburg City Public Schools: The Diploma Plus Initiative</strong>\r\nThe mission of the Diploma Plus Initiative (DPI) is to provide students access and opportunity into a high-demand career pathway at a living wage. DPI moves beyond state requirements and adds a ‘plus’ in an effort to lead to lifelong success. Our vision is for every student in PCPS to graduate with the ability to become productive members of the Petersburg City community. Therefore, through DPI we increase access to high-demand career pathways, leading to postsecondary success and positively impacting workforce development initiatives. As students earn their ‘plus’, they will develop job and life skills that will assist them in earning a living wage and improve their overall quality of life. In two years, we have implemented new career programs, partnered with over 100 businesses and industry members to provide work-based learning experiences for our students, and increased enrollment in our college credit courses and Associate''s Degree programs.\r\nContact Information: Terrie Allsbrooks, Director of College and Career Readiness, <a href="mailto:teallsbrooks@petersburg.k12.va.us">teallsbrooks@petersburg.k12.va.us</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Petersburg City Public Schools: The Metropolitan Business League’s Youth Entrepreneurship Program (YEP)</strong>\r\nThe Metropolitan Business League’s Youth Entrepreneurship Program (YEP) is a comprehensive school-based and afterschool program, which transforms middle and high school students (grades 6-12), into real, confident entrepreneurs. With the use of innovative business teaching strategies, culminated with a flexible/modular curriculum; they provide mentors, expert entrepreneurs as speakers and resources. Through our partnership with YEP, Petersburg City Public Schools (PCPS) has had over fifty (50+) high school students participate in a broad range of school-based and afterschool training and programs. The YEP ignites the entrepreneurial mindset in young people, prepares them to be career-ready and tomorrow’s innovators, and addresses our Diploma Plus Initiative (DPI). The intent of DPI is to ensure students graduate with more than a high school diploma leading to the ability to earn a living wage. YEP supports DPI by providing awareness and aspirations in young people to explore self-employment as a legitimate lifetime career path.\r\nContact Information: Allison Hunter, Director of Programs &amp; Operations, <a href="mailto:ahunter@thembl.org">ahunter@thembl.org</a>, 804-313-5942\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Prince George County Public Schools: Royals Entertainment - Entrepreneurship</strong>\r\nThe “Royals Entertainment” initiative developed from our students'' desire to reconnect as a community after the Covid shutdown during the spring and summer of 2020. A group of four marketing students from the Entrepreneurship class, who were also members of DECA, came up with the idea of hosting a drive-in movie. The students worked with their teacher to develop a plan of action, gather support from district administration, and develop the health mitigation plan that allowed the first drive-in movie to take place in October of 2020. Thanks to their efforts a NEW school-based enterprise was created and since their first event, they have held a variety of other themed movie nights, a Safe Zone Homecoming viewing event, and Senior Sunset Event to fill the void from lost Proms. These events were vital in supporting a safe return to normalcy within our community. Today, they are able to provide these services for others beyond the school division.\r\nContact Information: Matt Weston, Coordinator of Career and Technical Education, <a href="mailto:mweston@pgs.k12.va.us">mweston@pgs.k12.va.us</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Prince George County Public Schools: Digital and Social Media Marketing</strong>\r\nThe “Digital Social Media Marketing” program was created to develop students'' understanding of how best to combine fundamental marketing principles with acceptable content creation for use on popular social media platforms. The goal for the students is to learn best practices associated with leveraging different social media platforms to increase followers while adhering to the principles and image of the business or organization they represent. To support these efforts and to foster greater growth through real world practice, the class has access to create and share content to support the district''s efforts to engage with the community through social media. The class regularly showcases wonderful news, upcoming events, and student achievements from across the district. The class''s efforts are being noticed, resulting in requests for help from community organizations and local businesses with their content development.\r\nContact Information: Matt Weston, Coordinator of Career and Technical Education, <a href="mailto:mweston@pgs.k12.va.us">mweston@pgs.k12.va.us</a>, (804) 896-5200\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Radford City Public Schools: Passport to Career and College - Oh, The Places You''ll Go!</strong>\r\nRadford High School and Virginia Tech’s College Access Collaborative hosted a semester-long “Passport to Career and College” (P2C) career exploration program for freshmen. Piloted for the first time in a face-to-face format, P2C sessions consisted of engaging activities designed to help students learn about their personal career paths and to encourage development of essential skills related to the 5 C’s/soft skills, postsecondary options, applying for jobs, creating a resume and cover letter, and interviewing for a job. Through P2C, students also had the opportunity to interact with college admissions representatives, various career professionals, and potential employers at the program-sponsored “Mingle Like You Mean It” career/networking fair. As a result of the P2C program, each freshman completed a career assessment, explored various career and college options, learned essential workplace readiness skills, and was able to apply many of those skills in a real-world setting.\r\nContact Information: Jamie Little, Education Specialist, <a href="mailto:jolittle@rcps.org">jolittle@rcps.org</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Radford City Public Schools: McHarg Elementary- Big Rig Day</strong>\r\nMcHarg Elementary uses Kid Cash for our Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS). Students earn Kid Cash by exhibiting schoolwide expected behaviors. Kid Cash can be used in the classroom to purchase relationship-based experiences as well as material objects. In addition to the classroom purchases, students also have the opportunity to purchase tickets to larger schoolwide events. These events help build schoolwide community, school spirit, and encourage saving as well as providing an opportunity to experience delayed gratification. While classroom stores may happen weekly/monthly, larger events typically happen once per quarter. Big Rig Day was our first event for the 2021-2022 school year. For this event McHarg collaborated with community organizations and businesses. These included the fire department, the police department, local construction companies, the power company and local tow services. These organizations brought a variety of vehicles which were lined up around our parking lot for students to experience. The organizations also provided representatives who explained how the parts of the vehicles worked or how they are used to help our community. This interactive experience included lights, sounds, and invitations to climb and explore some of the equipment. Students reported the highlight of their day was seeing their teachers go up in the power company bucket truck.\r\nContact Information: Michelle Greene, Principal, <a href="mailto:mgreene@rcps.org">mgreene@rcps.org</a>, 540-731-3652\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Richmond City Public Schools: Community Hub Model</strong>\r\nThirty years of research consistently links family involvement to higher student achievement, better attitudes toward school, lower dropout rates, increased attendance, and many other positive outcomes for students, families, and schools (Henderson &amp; Mapp, 2002). To that end, RPS launched four “Community Hubs” around the city (one in the city’s East End, two in the city’s Southside, and one in the city’s West End for families in the West End and Northside) to deepen our connection to and partnership with families and community partners. Hubs are designed to serve families and students from a person-centered approach, meeting people where they are based on their location and needs. During the 2021– 2022 school year, of the 1,400 Home Visits logged by RPS staff and employees, over 1,000 are attributed to Hub staff and account for over 1/3rd (7,487) of all student outreach completed. Student Success Plans have had a 53% success rate preventing students from reaching 10 days of absences, and slowed the accumulation of absences approximately 35% for those who have amassed 10+ days of unexcused absences.\r\nContact Information: Dr. Erin Brown, Director of Family Engagement,<a href="mailto:ebrown6@rvaschools.net"> ebrown6@rvaschools.net</a>, (804) 584-7921\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Richmond City Public Schools: Con Ganas!</strong>\r\n¡Con Ganas! is a year-round, dropout prevention program designed for English learners in which traditional day classes do not meet educational needs due to: Work-related needs Child care needs Circumstances regarding over-age and lack of academic credits Other urgent personal circumstances ¡Con Ganas! covers all of Virginia''s graduation requirements, along with English Learner support, in order for students to graduate from RPS in 3 years or less with a Standard Diploma. Classes are Monday through Thursday at 5:30 PM online, and Con Ganas team is available for in-person support on Mondays &amp; Wednesdays: 5:30-8 p.m. at Huguenot High School. English Language Learners come with so much linguistic, cultural, and community wealth. Con Ganas is committed to catering to the needs of our most marginalized populations, so we may develop bilingual, biliterate, and bicultural citizens of the world.\r\nContact Information: Lily Mirjahangiri, Newcomer Academy Specialist, <a href="mailto:Lmirjaha@rvaschools.net">Lmirjaha@rvaschools.net</a>, (804)807-3052\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Shenandoah County Public Schools: SCPS/LFCC/SMH Partnership for Phlebotomy Class</strong>\r\nShenandoah County Public Schools partnered with Lord Fairfax Community College (LFCC), LFCC Workforce Solutions, and Shenandoah Memorial Hospital to offer a phlebotomy class to 11 students enrolled in healthcare science courses in the division. SCPS was able to shuffle students’ schedules between schools and online classes in order to meet all graduation requirements while still providing this opportunity. Valley Health System is the largest employer in the Shenandoah Valley, so there is a high demand for these skills in the local area. Employment of phlebotomists is expected to grow 22% from 2020 to 2030, much faster than the average for all occupations (US Bureau of Labor Statistics).\r\nContact Information: Todd Lynn, Supervisor of Career &amp; Technical Education, <a href="mailto:tmlynn@shenandoah.k12.va.us">tmlynn@shenandoah.k12.va.us</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Shenandoah County Public Schools: Shenandoah County Fire and Rescue/Shenandoah County Public Schools Partnership</strong>\r\nShenandoah County Public Schools partnered with Shenandoah County Fire and Rescue (SCFR) to provide an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) program at Triplett Tech, the division’s career and technical school. SCFR provides an instructor and makes equipment available for the course. The school division provides space and additional equipment. The EMT program prepares students to provide prehospital assessment and care for patients of all ages with a variety of medical conditions and traumatic injuries. At the end of the course, students will have the skills and knowledge needed to pass the state test to obtain their EMT certification. Currently, over 50% of the class has already begun volunteering at local stations. Employment of EMTs and paramedics is projected to grow 11% from 2020 to 2030 (US Bureau of Labor Statistics). As the population continues to grow in Shenandoah County and the surrounding area, the need for these services will increase.\r\nContact Information: Todd Lynn, Supervisor of Career &amp; Technical Education, <a href="mailto:tmlynn@shenandoah.k12.va.us">tmlynn@shenandoah.k12.va.us</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Spotsylvania County Public Schools: Battlefield Elementary Students Lead the Way in Unique Take on Parent-Teacher Conferences</strong>\r\nCommunication between teachers and parents is vital to success in the classroom. But students shouldn’t be left out of the conversation! That’s why instead of traditional parent-teacher conferences, Battlefield Elementary School is letting students lead the conferences. Students will share their work, talk about their strengths and areas of need, and set goals with their parents and teachers for the rest of the year. When students take ownership of their learning, they get excited to share their work – and that excitement boosts parent participation and attendance at these conferences. The conferences will encourage positive self-reflection, teach critical goal-setting skills, and build leadership. These are all qualities that will set students up for success in the classroom, in life, and prepare them for wherever the future takes them.\r\nContact Information: Ms. Kara Hurley, Principal, Battlefield Elementary School, <a href="mailto:kmhurley@spotsylvania.k12.va.us">kmhurley@spotsylvania.k12.va.us</a>, 540-786-4532\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Spotsylvania County Public Schools: Students, Office of Mental Health and Wellness Pack De-Stress Kits for Teachers</strong>\r\nTeaching is often a stressful job, and that stress has only increased over the past two years. That’s why a group of students in Spotsylvania County Public Schools’ (SCPS) REACH program, along with the SCPS Office of Mental Health and Wellness, put together special surprise de-stress kits for all of the division’s instructional staff. The kits include stress balls, bubbles to encourage teachers to focus on their breath, several different kinds of sensory fidgets, and a resource card to guide them through different ways to approach stress. The kits are part of a larger effort by the Office of Mental Health and Wellness to support our teachers, with other programs including Wellness Wednesdays with yoga, meditation and breath workshops, and self-care seminars.\r\nContact Information: Ms. Lisa Dolan, Coordinator of Social Work Services, <a href="mailto:ldolan@spostylvania.k12.va.us">ldolan@spostylvania.k12.va.us</a>, 540-834-2500\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Spotsylvania County Public Schools: Cutting-Edge Program Inspires and Empowers Students to Pursue Careers in Cybersecurity</strong>\r\nAmid the pandemic, unrest, and a shift toward remote work on a national scale, cybersecurity became exponentially more important. That’s why Spotsylvania County Public Schools is preparing our students to pursue a career in this high-demand field, with a cutting-edge program designed to help them develop the essential skills they need to succeed. Spearheaded by Ms. Kristina Rice, the Spotsylvania High School Cyber Knights program inspires students from underrepresented groups to pursue cybersecurity careers, and explore their passions in the field. Under Ms. Rice’s direction, the all-girls Cyber Knights team placed 2nd in both the 2019 and 2020 Girls Go Cyberstart National Championships. The program’s students have an impressive 100% graduation rate, a 100% college, military and career readiness attainment rate, and more than 98% go on to earn industry certifications. In recognition of this achievement, Ms. Rice received the Presidential Cybersecurity Education Award in December 2021.\r\nContact Information: Ms. Kristina Rice, Advisor, Cyber Knights, <a href="mailto:krice@spotsylvania.k12.va.us">krice@spotsylvania.k12.va.us</a>, 540-582-3882 ext 542212\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Stafford County Public Schools: Mentor 360</strong>\r\nMentor 360 is an innovative, systematic, full circle support program provided to first year educators in Stafford County Public Schools. The ultimate goal is to provide the support for each new hire to craft a strength-based professional identity with our full circle of support. Upon hire, educators are paired with a highly-skilled and trained job-alike mentor. Mentors and mentees collaboratively create a personalized system of support, cognitive challenge, and professional vision tailored to the strengths and unique experience of each new educator. Mentor 360 also offers a New Teacher Institute (NTI) on-boarding program at the start of the academic year, a three-day Foundations in Teaching course that builds a common vocabulary and professional network among new educators, a weekly professional development web series, quarterly new educator social gatherings, subscription to a bi-weekly Full Circle Newsletter, and monthly school-based mentoring sessions facilitated by the school lead mentor Ambassador.\r\nContact Information: Sandra Osborn, Director of Public and Community Relations, <a href="mailto:osbornpeterssk@staffordschools.net">osbornpeterssk@staffordschools.net</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Stafford County Public Schools: SCPS Evening Program</strong>\r\nThe Evening Program is a completion program for students who are in danger of dropping out or not finishing their diploma due to family or work obligations during traditional school hours. The hybrid program is offered online, with required in-person attendance two nights a week (6-8:30 p.m.) to ensure proper pacing and academic support. The program has expanded to include supplemental enrollment, which allows students to attend their base school during the day and take an additional course in the evening so that they can meet graduation requirements on time. This allows students who are missing 1-2 credits to complete a full course load at their base school during the day, and also complete recovery or additional credits at night. The program lessens the dropout rate, ensures more students are able to graduate on time, and also allows students the opportunity to accelerate their graduation requirements.\r\nContact Information: Sandra Osborn, Director of Public and Community Relations, <a href="mailto:osbornpeterssk@staffordschools.net">osbornpeterssk@staffordschools.net</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Stafford County Public Schools: Vertical Alignment Opens Doors to Computer Science Study in Middle School</strong>\r\nStafford County Public Schools has pursued a number of avenues to expand access to STEM fields, particularly computer science for students at all grade levels. The division’s acquisition of the Advancing Computer Science Education Grant equips teachers in participating divisions with embedding computer science standards in Grades 3-8 through the creation of interdisciplinary performance tasks. This has increased student exposure at critical grade levels and helps teachers from many disciplines see themselves as teachers of computer science. The division redesigned its middle school program to increase the number of electives offered to allow additional exposure to computer science and STEM fields. By improving vertical alignment around computer science with a PK-12 approach, the division hopes to see an increase in the number of students participating in high school computer science programs, such as the existing STAT Academy, and the soon to be launched Cybersecurity Dual Enrollment program.\r\nContact Information: Sandra Osborn, Director of Public and Community Relations, <a href="mailto:osbornpeterssk@staffordschools.net">osbornpeterssk@staffordschools.net</a>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Washington County Public Schools: Camp Connections 2021</strong>\r\nMission Statement - The Camp Connections Project strives to precipitate student-centered change in public education. We are committed to reinventing public education in Southwest Virginia; to adapt the system of public education to more fully meet the social, emotional, and academic needs of young people. Through collaborative leadership and deliberate instructional design, Camp Connections creates an interdisciplinary curriculum of inquiry-based instruction that integrates social and emotional learning (SEL) into academic content. The design and execution of the project reflect the organic nature of whole-person education - a process anchored in connections. Students connect to education, to each other, to their community, and most importantly, to themselves. Camp Connections empowers classroom teachers and students to not only take the next steps in education but to become the next steps in education.\r\nContact Information: Eric Hoffman, Classroom Teacher and Co-Creator of Camp Connections 2021, <a href="mailto:ehoffman@wcs.k12.va.us">ehoffman@wcs.k12.va.us</a>, (276) 698-6224\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Waynesboro City Public Schools: Outstanding Strive Toward Literacy: Kate Collins Middle School Book Vending Machine</strong>\r\nKate Collins Middle School (KCMS) Media Specialist, Karen Sellers and Teacher Erin Hagedorn recently partnered together to provide middle school students with a unique opportunity to access books. Through a Donors Choose Grant in cooperation with Sonic Drive-In, Mrs. Hagedorn and Mrs. Sellers acquired an Inchy the Bookworm Book Vending Machine. At KCMS, students have the opportunity to earn tickets in every classroom for being respectful, responsible and involved. Students with a high number of tickets are then granted a Golden Token, which can be used in the book vending machine to choose a book that they can keep. At the December Waynesboro Public Schools School Board meeting, Mrs. Sellers and Mrs. Hagedorn shared a presentation about the book vending machine and stated, “At KCMS we recognize the importance of reading, not only for educational growth, but personal growth as well. Allowing all of our students the opportunity to ‘purchase’ a book of their own, and of their own choosing, encourages them to not only read but to continue to seek out other books in the future.” So far, over 50 KCMS students have been awarded free books. Inside the vending machine the students will find a variety of books at different reading levels. The vending machine also includes a diverse selection of both fiction and non-fiction books. To purchase books, Sellers and Hagedorn used grant money from The Charitable Grant Foundation and the Dollar General Foundation.\r\nContact Information: Tim Teachey, Executive Director of Instruction, <a href="mailto:tteachey@waynesboro.k12.va.us">tteachey@waynesboro.k12.va.us</a>, 540-946-4600\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Waynesboro City Public Schools: Flexible School Schedules: Schools in Waynesboro Make Schedule Changes to Help Students During Pandemic</strong>\r\nWhen Westwood Hills Elementary school started looking into ways to address the many issues the pandemic caused, they turned to their students for input. Students at Westwood Hills were asked to be consultants and interviewed about their experiences at Westwood. This collaboration with students paved the way for a set time in the school day called “What I Need” (WIN) time. WIN time is used at Westwood Hills to meet the diverse needs of students, which have definitely heightened since the pandemic. This time helps teachers focus on students and helps students learn and practice skills not taught in the traditional classroom setting. In addition, students receive extra academic support where needed. The thirty minute block of time takes place daily. Activities range from mindful activities such as yoga, to targeted academic interventions for students. Teachers use grade level meeting time to determine where the needs are and how to best use WIN time. Waynesboro High School added a similar structure to help address learning loss due to COVID called Flex Block. The first priority of this one hour block of time is to give students an opportunity to recover credits they may need toward graduation. Flex Block is also used as a time to help ninth graders acclimate to the high school environment. In addition this time provides an opportunity to introduce new electives and offer content-specific study halls.\r\nContact Information: Tim Teachey, Executive Director of Instruction, <a href="mailto:tteachey@waynesboro.k12.va.us">tteachey@waynesboro.k12.va.us</a>, 540-946-4600\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Waynesboro City Public Schools: Waynesboro Back to School Bash</strong>\r\nWaynesboro City Schools hosted its first annual Back to School Bash event. The vision of the event was to remove barriers for students and families that make the start of a new school year stressful. At the event, there were opportunities for students to receive haircuts from local stylists and healthcare providers were available to provide school physicals and immunizations. Families were able to access forms to request for assistance for school supplies, clothing or other medical needs. In addition, healthy fruits and vegetables were available, numerous community resources, and fun and games for students of all ages. This event provided Waynesboro City Public School students with the opportunity to have a positive start to the school year. The Back to School Bash was held on two different dates and and was a huge success with the help of over 100 staff and community volunteers. Waynesboro Public Schools hosted over 600 participants. During the event, numerous COVID-19 vaccines were given and over 250 haircuts and styles provided for WPS students.\r\nContact Information: Ryan Barber, Assistant Superintendent, <a href="mailto:rbarber@waynesboro.k12.va.us">rbarber@waynesboro.k12.va.us</a>, 540-946-4600\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools: AAC Communication Boards - Everyone Deserves A Voice!</strong>\r\nIn collaboration with the WJCC Special Education department, Playground Communication Stations were created in hopes of giving students an ability to express themselves with friends, teachers, and others, all while feeling included. By having this on our playgrounds, we can offer many opportunities for communication, awareness, inclusion, and acceptance. These district-wide playground communication boards allow staff to point to symbols to help students understand directions and to model appropriate language. It allows students who are feeling frustrated to use symbols or words to express their feelings to staff and peers, and, therefore, likely avoid maladaptive behaviors. It also encourages inclusivity by showing students different ways to communicate with their fellow peers. This project has been implemented at each elementary school in WJCC, with Communication Stations on the playgrounds, hallways, and cafeterias to maximize expressive and receptive language globally, and will also be featured in our town’s parks and recreation locations!\r\nContact Information: Adam Brown, Director of Special Education, <a href="mailto:adam.brown@wjccschools.org">adam.brown@wjccschools.org</a>, 757-603-6464\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>York County: L.E.A.D. Program</strong>\r\nThe L.E.A.D. Program aims to recruit, support, and retain high quality leaders. This cohort program offers professional development and mentoring support through hands-on learning experiences using the Leadership Challenge© framework. Participants will engage in monthly learning sessions, network, and collaborate with cohort members, learn from guest speakers, and complete a personal project during the program. Many of the previous participants in the LEAD program have been promoted and they utilize skills acquired from this program in-turn cultivating stronger leadership.\r\nContact Information: Dr. David Reitz, Director of Leadership and Accountability, <a href="mailto:dreitz@ycsd.york.va.us">dreitz@ycsd.york.va.us</a>, 757 898-0450\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>York County School Division: Middle School Virtual Career Fair and Expo</strong>\r\nA priority at York County School Division is student career readiness. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the traditional in-person career fair held during previous years was not possible. Instead of cancelling the event, YCSD division and school staff moved to a virtual format to replicate the in-person event. The shift to virtual turned out to be a big success! Over 1,100 students participated in the Virtual Career Fair and Expo. Students engaged in activities such as interest surveys, virtual tours, and career videos. The career fair provided information about job opportunities from local companies and military representatives. Students heard about a “day in the life” of a career from our EngagedIN YCSD community partners. Finally, students learned about career pathways and clusters available at the middle and high schools from YCSD career coaches. Student feedback was positive and YCSD plans to continue to use virtual options to highlight career opportunities.\r\nContact Information: Robert Sherlock, Associate Director of Educational Technology and Innovation, <a href="mailto:rsherlock@ycsd.york.va.us">rsherlock@ycsd.york.va.us</a>, 757-898-0409\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<strong>York County School Division: Autism Services Improvement Team</strong>\r\nThe Autism Services Improvement Team (ASIT), is a multi-disciplinary team that assesses, implements, and monitors services for students with autism in the York County School Division’s (YCSD). ASIT’s purpose is to foster collaboration between highly skilled providers of comprehensive services for students with autism, including division and building administrators, speech pathologists, and occupational therapists. Along with other successful projects, the team developed a yearlong Evidence Based Practices (EBP) Academy. ASIT has trained more than ninety general and special education teachers on EBPs and effective implementation in the classroom. The ASIT team developed and implemented an instructional coaching model that has recently been adopted division-wide. They systematized training for staff on various assessments and curriculum, facilitated division-wide professional learning communities, and created an evidenced based practices manual. The strategies established by the ASIT team embedded sustainable and meaningful support for our students with autism.\r\nContact Information: Christy Morgan, Associate Director of Student Services, <a href="mailto:cmorgan@ycsd.york.va.us">cmorgan@ycsd.york.va.us</a>, 1-757-898-0477', 'Showcases for Success', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '3142-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-11 16:30:57', '2022-05-11 20:30:57', '', 3142, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10681', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(10690, 5, '2022-05-11 08:00:22', '2022-05-11 12:00:22', '<h3><span style="color: #e11a3b;"><strong>From the President''s Desk</strong></span></h3>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_139" align="alignleft" width="240"]<img class="wp-image-139 size-medium" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/Martin_2019-240x300.jpg" alt="Teddy D. Martin, II, President" width="240" height="300"> Teddy D. Martin, II, President[/caption]\r\n\r\nDear Fellow School Board Members,\r\n\r\nThe VSBA has been quite active this past month. The April Hot Topic Conference focused on Cybersecurity was timely and important to all school divisions. The conference was full of first-hand experiences that we all can learn from. If you were unable to attend, I encourage you to check out the recording. It was also a treat to be able to address our School Board Clerks at the Spring Clerks Conference and emphasize their importance to each of us. As we communicated earlier, we also became a founding member of the Consortium of State School Boards Associations (COSSBA), along with 21 other states, enhancing collaboration across the states with a full complement of training and networking opportunities forthcoming. You may expect more information in June.\r\n\r\nAs usual, I must thank our Executive Director Gina Patterson and staff for their dedication in supporting our board and membership, keeping us updated on the latest developments, particularly as the General Assembly’s session continues and we work to keep public education at the forefront. We are blessed to have Gina and staff that go above and beyond for us.\r\n\r\nThank you to each regional chair for leading their respective regional meetings. There were many excellent and informative presentations, and it is always great to recognize the exceptional talent we have in the students of our divisions throughout the Commonwealth. Thanks to each of you who attended. Thank you to <a href="https://www.kajeet.net/kajeet-vsba-announce-winners-virginia-education-broadband-grant-2022/?utm_campaign=2022-VSBA-Grant-Announcement&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_content=207468080&amp;hss_channel=tw-288233365">Kajeet</a> for the excellent Education Broadband Grant program, awarding up to $30,000 each to a division in each of our 9 regions. Congratulations to all the winners. Thank you, as always, to Benefit Plan Administrators (BPA) for sponsoring the meetings.\r\n\r\nI hope to see many of you at the <a href="https://www.vsba.org/meetings-conferences/conferences/school-law-conference/">School Law Conference</a> on June 3<sup>rd</sup> and the <a href="https://www.vsba.org/meetings-conferences/conferences/conference-on-education/">Conference on Education</a> on July 19th. I have always been impressed by these two conferences for their vital information as well as the opportunity to learn from our fellow divisions and members. I also encourage you to attend our upcoming webinars and workshops throughout the next couple of months on various topics critical to the success of our divisions and our development as board members.\r\n\r\nPlease remember that the VSBA’s staff and our board are here to support you. Please feel free to reach out to me if I may be of assistance. As always, thank you for the opportunity and honor of serving as your President.\r\n\r\nThank you again for all you do,\r\n\r\n-Teddy Martin', 'From the President''s Desk', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'from-the-presidents-desk', '', '', '2022-05-20 09:36:46', '2022-05-20 13:36:46', '', 0, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10690', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(10691, 5, '2022-05-12 09:00:47', '2022-05-12 13:00:47', 'Dear Fellow School Board Members,\r\n\r\nThe VSBA has been quite active this past month. The April Hot Topic focused on Cybersecurity was timely and important to all our divisions with experts and first-hand experiences that we all can learn from. If you were unable to attend, I encourage you to check out the recording. It was also a treat to be able to address our School Board Clerks at the Spring Clerks Conference and emphasize their importance to each of us. As we communicated earlier, we also became a founding member of the Consortium of State School Boards Associations (COSSBA), along with 21 other states, enhancing collaboration across the states with a full complement of training and networking opportunities forthcoming. You may expect more information in June.\r\n\r\nAs usual, I must thank our Executive Director Gina Patterson and staff for their dedication in supporting our board and membership, keeping us updated on the latest developments, particularly as the General Assembly’s session continues and we work to keep public education at the forefront. We are blessed to have Gina and staff that go above and beyond for us.\r\n\r\nThank you to each of the regional chairs for leading their respective regional meetings. There were many excellent informative presentations, and it is always great to recognize the exceptional talent we have in the students of our divisions throughout the Commonwealth. Thank you to each of you who attended. Thank you to Kajeet for the wonderful Education Broadband Grant program, awarding up to $30,000 each to a division in each of our 9 regions. Congratulations to all the winners. Thank you as always to Benefit Plan Administrators (BPA) for sponsoring the meetings.\r\n\r\nI hope to see many of you at the School Law Conference on June 3<sup>rd</sup> and the Conference on Education on July 19th. I have always been impressed by these two conferences for their vital information as well as the opportunity to learn from our fellow divisions and members. I also encourage you to attend our upcoming webinars and workshops throughout the next couple months on a variety of critical topics to the success of our divisions and our development as board members.\r\n\r\nPlease remember that the VSBA’s staff and our Board are here to support you. Please feel free to reach out to me if I may be of assistance. As always, thank you for the opportunity and honor of serving as your President.\r\n\r\nThank you again for all you do,\r\n\r\n-Teddy Martin', 'From the President''s Desk', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10690-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-12 09:00:47', '2022-05-12 13:00:47', '', 10690, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10691', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10693, 5, '2022-05-13 08:00:11', '2022-05-13 12:00:11', '<h3><span style="color: #e11a3b;"><strong>From the Executive Director</strong></span></h3>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_271" align="alignleft" width="200"]<img class="wp-image-271 size-medium" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Gina_NEW-2018-200x300.jpg" alt="Gina Patterson, Executive Director" width="200" height="300"> Gina Patterson, Executive Director[/caption]\r\n\r\nThe VSBA just finished wrapping up the last of our 2022 Spring Regional Networking Meetings, with the Blue Ridge Region closing out the 2022 sessions. Unfortunately, because of advance planning, and most of the meetings being hosted in schools, the regional meetings were all virtual. Hopefully next year we will be able to have the nine regional meetings in person. Our regional officers did an excellent job finding timely speakers and entertainment for the meetings. As I say each year, and this year is no exception, the artwork is amazing. If you haven’t had a chance, please go to the VSBA website and check out the winning art from this year. <a href="https://www.vsba.org/resources/competitions-and-challenges/spring-regional-art-contest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click here to view the 2022 student artwork.</a>\r\n\r\nAs the school year slows down, it is a perfect time to schedule a customized board retreat. VSBA recommends every governance team (the board and superintendent) hold a retreat at least once a year. A small investment of time in targeted board development can pay big dividends. If you have new members as of January or new ones coming on in July, this is the perfect time for a retreat. VSBA offers customized facilitated training based on the governance teams'' individual needs. By meeting at the VSBA Center for Board Development in Charlottesville, boards have the opportunity to meet in an environment that is unrestricted by routines allowing them to focus on the work of the board. It permits more time for discussion, creative thinking, and strategic planning. Remember, a retreat is an excellent time to introduce and discuss new topics and perhaps provide a timely opportunity for the board to hit that reset button. Governance team retreats are more effective when attended by all board members and the superintendent. There doesn''t necessarily need to be an issue to schedule a retreat. It is better to plan one before challenges arrive, as the retreat will provide boards with the tools and resources to handle those times when a crucial conversation is needed. Though the purposes for retreats vary, boards should take advantage of the opportunity to accomplish organizational goals that can''t be achieved through routine meetings that fail to allow boards the opportunity to stop and reflect on how they can do things differently.\r\n\r\n<em>Some of the most requested retreat topics<strong>:</strong></em>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Roles and Responsibilities</li>\r\n 	<li>Division Goal Setting</li>\r\n 	<li>Superintendent Evaluation</li>\r\n 	<li>Improving Communication Skills</li>\r\n 	<li>Conflict Resolution</li>\r\n 	<li>Board Operating Procedures (Norms/Protocols)</li>\r\n 	<li>Trust and Teamwork</li>\r\n 	<li>Board Self-Evaluation</li>\r\n 	<li>Managing Effective Meetings</li>\r\n 	<li>New Superintendent Transition</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nPlease reach out to VSBA Assistant Executive Director Tom Brewster (<a href="mailto:tom@vsba.org">tom@vsba.org</a>) for additional information on VSBA’s offerings to our member boards.\r\n\r\n<span data-preserver-spaces="true">We look forward to seeing you next month at the VSBA Annual School Law Conference in Richmond. With so many policies and laws changing constantly, all school board members need to be current on these changes. </span><a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/School-Law-Conference-Brochure-2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Click here to view the Law Conference brochure.</span></a>\r\n\r\nThanks for all that you do!\r\n\r\nGina', 'From the Executive Director', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'from-the-executive-director', '', '', '2022-05-18 15:40:59', '2022-05-18 19:40:59', '', 0, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10693', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(10694, 5, '2022-05-12 09:23:29', '2022-05-12 13:23:29', 'VSBA just finished wrapping up the last of the 2022 Spring Regional Networking Meetings last week.  The Blue Ridge Region closed out the 2022 Regional Meetings.  Unfortunately, because of advance planning, and most of the regional meetings being hosted in a school building, the regional meetings were all virtual.  Hopefully next year we will be able to have the nine regional meetings in person.  The regional officers did a wonderful job find timely speakers, and entertainment for the meetings.  As I say each year, and this year is no exception, the artwork each year is amazing. If you haven’t had a chance, please go on the VSBA website and checkout the winning art from this year. <span style="color: #ff0000;">(add the link to the 2022 student art work here please)</span>\r\n\r\nAs the school year start to slow down, it is a perfect time to schedule a customized board retreat. VSBA recommends every governance team (the board and superintendent) hold a retreat at least once a year.  A small investment of time in targeted board development can pay big dividends. You may have new members as of January or new ones coming on in July, perfect timing for a retreat.  VSBA offers customized facilitated trainings, based on the individual needs of the governance teams.  By meeting at the VSBA Center for Board Development in Charlottesville, it allows the board to meet in an environment that is unrestricted by routines, and just focus on the work of the board.  It allows for more time for discussion, creative thinking, and strategic planning.  Remember, a retreat is a good time to also introduce and discuss new topics, and is a time for the board to do reset. Governance team retreats are more effective when attended by all members of the board, and superintendent. There doesn’t necessarily need to be an issue to schedule a retreat, in fact it is better to schedule prior to one arriving, as it provides tools and resources to handle those times when crucial conversation is needed. Though the purposes for retreats vary, the main point is to use this opportunity to accomplish something that can’t be done through routine meetings, that don’t allow boards to stop and reflect on how they can do things differently.\r\n\r\n<em>Some of the most requested retreat topics<strong>:</strong></em>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Roles and Responsibilities</li>\r\n 	<li>Division Goal Setting</li>\r\n 	<li>Superintendent Evaluation</li>\r\n 	<li>Improving Communication Skills</li>\r\n 	<li>Conflict Resolution</li>\r\n 	<li>Board Operating Procedures (Norms/Protocols)</li>\r\n 	<li>Trust and Teamwork</li>\r\n 	<li>Board Self-Evaluation</li>\r\n 	<li>Managing Effective Meetings</li>\r\n 	<li>New Superintendent Transition</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nPlease reach out to VSBA Assistant Executive Director Tom Brewster (tom@vsba.org) for additional information on VSBA’s offerings to our member board.\r\n\r\nWe look forward to seeing you next month at the VSBA Annual School Law Conference in Richmond.  With so many policies and laws changing constantly, it is important for all school board members to be current on these changes.  <span style="color: #ff0000;">(add the link to the Law Conference brochure.</span>\r\n\r\nThanks for all that you do.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'From the Executive Director', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10693-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-12 09:23:29', '2022-05-12 13:23:29', '', 10693, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10694', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10695, 5, '2022-05-12 09:41:54', '2022-05-12 13:41:54', 'VSBA just finished wrapping up the last of the 2022 Spring Regional Networking Meetings last week.  The Blue Ridge Region closed out the 2022 Regional Meetings.  Unfortunately, because of advance planning, and most of the regional meetings being hosted in a school building, the regional meetings were all virtual.  Hopefully next year we will be able to have the nine regional meetings in person.  The regional officers did a wonderful job find timely speakers, and entertainment for the meetings.  As I say each year, and this year is no exception, the artwork each year is amazing. If you haven’t had a chance, please go on the VSBA website and checkout the winning art from this year. <a href="https://www.vsba.org/resources/competitions-and-challenges/spring-regional-art-contest/">Click here to view the 2022 student artwork.</a>\r\n\r\nAs the school year start to slow down, it is a perfect time to schedule a customized board retreat. VSBA recommends every governance team (the board and superintendent) hold a retreat at least once a year.  A small investment of time in targeted board development can pay big dividends. You may have new members as of January or new ones coming on in July, perfect timing for a retreat.  VSBA offers customized facilitated trainings, based on the individual needs of the governance teams.  By meeting at the VSBA Center for Board Development in Charlottesville, it allows the board to meet in an environment that is unrestricted by routines, and just focus on the work of the board.  It allows for more time for discussion, creative thinking, and strategic planning.  Remember, a retreat is a good time to also introduce and discuss new topics, and is a time for the board to do reset. Governance team retreats are more effective when attended by all members of the board, and superintendent. There doesn’t necessarily need to be an issue to schedule a retreat, in fact it is better to schedule prior to one arriving, as it provides tools and resources to handle those times when crucial conversation is needed. Though the purposes for retreats vary, the main point is to use this opportunity to accomplish something that can’t be done through routine meetings, that don’t allow boards to stop and reflect on how they can do things differently.\r\n\r\n<em>Some of the most requested retreat topics<strong>:</strong></em>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Roles and Responsibilities</li>\r\n 	<li>Division Goal Setting</li>\r\n 	<li>Superintendent Evaluation</li>\r\n 	<li>Improving Communication Skills</li>\r\n 	<li>Conflict Resolution</li>\r\n 	<li>Board Operating Procedures (Norms/Protocols)</li>\r\n 	<li>Trust and Teamwork</li>\r\n 	<li>Board Self-Evaluation</li>\r\n 	<li>Managing Effective Meetings</li>\r\n 	<li>New Superintendent Transition</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nPlease reach out to VSBA Assistant Executive Director Tom Brewster (tom@vsba.org) for additional information on VSBA’s offerings to our member board.\r\n\r\nWe look forward to seeing you next month at the VSBA Annual School Law Conference in Richmond.  With so many policies and laws changing constantly, it is important for all school board members to be current on these changes.  <a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/School-Law-Conference-Brochure-2022.pdf">Click here to view the Law Conference brochure.</a>\r\n\r\nThanks for all that you do.', 'From the Executive Director', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10693-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-12 09:41:54', '2022-05-12 13:41:54', '', 10693, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10695', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10696, 5, '2022-05-13 08:00:53', '2022-05-13 12:00:53', '<h3><span style="color: #e11a3b;"><strong>Virginia General Assembly: Reconvene Session 2022</strong></span></h3>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_273" align="alignleft" width="279"]<img class="wp-image-273" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/KESSLER_JT3969-300x240.jpg" alt="JT Kessler, Government Relations Specialist" width="279" height="223"> JT Kessler, VSBA Government Relations Specialist[/caption]\r\n\r\nOn Wednesday April 29, 2022, the Virginia General Assembly met for the 2022 Reconvene Session. This yearly occasion consists of members of the Senate of Virginia and Virginia House of Delegates convening to consider legislative vetoes and recommendations by the Governor to legislation passed in the regular session of the General Assembly. In the 2022 Reconvene Session, there were ten pieces of legislation of interest to K-12 public education that received action by the Governor following adjournment of the 2022 General Assembly session on March 12<sup>th</sup>.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb36"><strong>SB 36</strong></a><strong> (Norment)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB4"><strong>HB 4</strong></a><strong> (Wyatt)</strong> Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense. The bill provides, as an exception to the requirement to report any written threats against school personnel while on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, that a principal is not required but may report to the local law-enforcement agency any such incident committed by a student who has an individualized education plan.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB36AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s recommendation on line 36 by a vote of 21-19. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 57-43. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Senate concurred with the Governor’s recommendation on line 52 through line 53 by a vote of 40-0. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 88-12. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was agreed to as it received a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB62"><strong>SB 62</strong></a><strong> (Favola)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb215"><strong>HB 215</strong></a><strong> (Robinson) </strong>Establishes the School Health Services Committee in the legislative branch to review and provide advice to the General Assembly and other policy makers regarding proposals that require local school boards to offer certain health services in a school setting. The bill requires the Committee to submit its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor by October 1 of each year. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2025.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB62AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb78"><strong>SB 78</strong></a><strong> (Norment)</strong> Requires the Board of Education to include an additional minimum 90-minute parent/student driver education component as part of the classroom portion of its driver education program for all public school divisions and provides that participation in such component shall be encouraged but shall not be required. Under current law, participation in such parent/student driver education component is required in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) and optional in all other school divisions. The bill also requires such parent/student driver education component to emphasize the dangers of distracted driving.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB78AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb307"><strong>HB 307</strong></a><strong> (Freitas) </strong>Provides that a public body subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act shall make all reasonable efforts to supply records requested by a citizen at the lowest possible cost. The bill also requires a public body, prior to conducting a search for records, to notify the requester in writing of the public body''s right to make reasonable charges not to exceed its actual cost incurred in accessing, duplicating, supplying, or searching for requested records and inquire of the requester whether he would like to request a cost estimate in advance of the supplying of the requested records.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB307AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb585"><strong>HB 585</strong></a><strong> (Van Valkenburg)</strong> Requires, except for those middle and high school students with significant cognitive disabilities who participate in an alternate assessment, each student in middle and high school to take only those end-of-course Standards of Learning assessments necessary to meet federal accountability requirements and Virginia high school graduation requirements.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB585AG">Governor Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB585H3">Substitute HB 585</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb873"><strong>HB 873</strong></a><strong> (Greenhalgh)</strong> Requires, in the case of any public elementary or secondary school in which a school resource officer is employed, the threat assessment team for such school to include at least one such school resource officer. The bill requires the chief local law-enforcement officer for any local school division in which a public elementary or secondary school does not employ a school resource officer to designate a law-enforcement officer to receive, either in-person or online, the school safety training for public school personnel conducted by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety in accordance with relevant law and requires such officer to serve as the law-enforcement liaison for the school administrator in such a school who has also received such training as prescribed by relevant law.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB873AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb879"><strong>HB 879</strong></a><strong> (Rasoul)</strong> Requires the nine-member Board of Education, all of whom are appointed by the Governor, to include at least one member with experience or expertise in local government leadership or policymaking, at least one member with experience or expertise in career and technical education, and at least one member with experience or expertise in early childhood education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB879AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB879H1">Substitute HB 879</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1026"><strong>HB 1026</strong></a><strong> (Guzman)</strong> Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (the Council), including at least one of each of the following: teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization who is the parent of a school-age child, school administrator, student, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1026AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1026H1">Substitute HB 1026</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1138"><strong>HB 1138</strong></a><strong> (Reid)</strong> Requires the lot drawing required to be conducted by the Loudoun County Electoral Board to determine the members of four of nine districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for four-year terms and the members of the remaining five districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for two-year terms to ensure the staggering of member terms for such school board to be conducted at the electoral board''s first meeting of 2023 but no later than January 31, 2023.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1138AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1138H1">Substitute HB 1138</a>)\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 22-18. The House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 51-48. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188"><strong>HB 1188</strong></a><strong> (Davis)</strong> Establishes the Student Advisory Board for the purpose of providing student perspectives on matters before the Board of Education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\nDuring each session of the Virginia General Assembly, the VSBA Executive Director and lobbyists are in daily contact discussing legislation and the VSBA policies that drive the association’s lobbying efforts, which include the decision to send action alerts to the membership. The lobbying efforts of the association are based on positions contained in the VSBA Legislative Positions Handbook that is approved each year by the VSBA Delegate Assembly. No school board in Virginia is bound by any position of the Association or obligated to any call to action. School boards in Virginia have the discretion to adopt a local position that may differ from that of the Association.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Lunch and Learn: How to Develop Legislative Priorities</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Virginia School Boards Association invites you to register and attend a Lunch &amp; Learn webinar designed to assist local school boards in developing legislative priorities for the school division. VSBA Government Relations Specialist, J.T. Kessler, will provide participants with strategies to consider as school boards think about short- and long-term goals around legislative advocacy.\r\n\r\nThe webinar will take place on Tuesday May 24, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. <strong>You must register in advance for this meeting by clicking on the following link:</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe</a>\r\n\r\nAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\r\n\r\nIf you have any questions about this webinar or the information found in the reconvene report, please contact J.T. Kessler at 434-295-8722 ext. 116 or <a href="mailto:jason@vsba.org">jason@vsba.org</a>.', 'Virginia General Assembly: Reconvene Session 2022', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'virginia-general-assembly-reconvene-session-2022', '', '', '2022-05-18 16:05:16', '2022-05-18 20:05:16', '', 0, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10696', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(10697, 5, '2022-05-12 10:10:26', '2022-05-12 14:10:26', 'On Wednesday April 29, 2022, the Virginia General Assembly met for the 2022 Reconvene Session. This yearly occasion consists of members of the Senate of Virginia and Virginia House of Delegates convening to consider legislative vetoes and recommendations by the Governor to legislation passed in the regular session of the General Assembly. In the 2022 Reconvene Session, there were ten pieces of legislation of interest to K-12 public education that received action by the Governor following adjournment of the 2022 general assembly session on March 12<sup>th</sup>.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb36"><strong>SB 36</strong></a><strong> (Norment)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB4"><strong>HB 4</strong></a><strong> (Wyatt)</strong> Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense. The bill provides, as an exception to the requirement to report any written threats against school personnel while on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, that a principal is not required but may report to the local law-enforcement agency any such incident committed by a student who has an individualized education plan.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB36AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s recommendation on line 36 by a vote of 21-19. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 57-43. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Senate concurred with the Governor’s recommendation on line 52 through line 53 by a vote of 40-0. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 88-12. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was agreed to as it received a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB62"><strong>SB 62</strong></a><strong> (Favola)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb215"><strong>HB 215</strong></a><strong> (Robinson) </strong>Establishes the School Health Services Committee in the legislative branch to review and provide advice to the General Assembly and other policy makers regarding proposals that require local school boards to offer certain health services in a school setting. The bill requires the Committee to submit its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor by October 1 of each year. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2025.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB62AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb78"><strong>SB 78</strong></a><strong> (Norment)</strong> Requires the Board of Education to include an additional minimum 90-minute parent/student driver education component as part of the classroom portion of its driver education program for all public school divisions and provides that participation in such component shall be encouraged but shall not be required. Under current law, participation in such parent/student driver education component is required in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) and optional in all other school divisions. The bill also requires such parent/student driver education component to emphasize the dangers of distracted driving.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB78AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb307"><strong>HB 307</strong></a><strong> (Freitas) </strong>Provides that a public body subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act shall make all reasonable efforts to supply records requested by a citizen at the lowest possible cost. The bill also requires a public body, prior to conducting a search for records, to notify the requester in writing of the public body''s right to make reasonable charges not to exceed its actual cost incurred in accessing, duplicating, supplying, or searching for requested records and inquire of the requester whether he would like to request a cost estimate in advance of the supplying of the requested records.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB307AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb585"><strong>HB 585</strong></a><strong> (Van Valkenburg)</strong> Requires, except for those middle and high school students with significant cognitive disabilities who participate in an alternate assessment, each student in middle and high school to take only those end-of-course Standards of Learning assessments necessary to meet federal accountability requirements and Virginia high school graduation requirements.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB585AG">Governor Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB585H3">Substitute HB 585</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb873"><strong>HB 873</strong></a><strong> (Greenhalgh)</strong> Requires, in the case of any public elementary or secondary school in which a school resource officer is employed, the threat assessment team for such school to include at least one such school resource officer. The bill requires the chief local law-enforcement officer for any local school division in which a public elementary or secondary school does not employ a school resource officer to designate a law-enforcement officer to receive, either in-person or online, the school safety training for public school personnel conducted by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety in accordance with relevant law and requires such officer to serve as the law-enforcement liaison for the school administrator in such a school who has also received such training as prescribed by relevant law.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB873AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb879"><strong>HB 879</strong></a><strong> (Rasoul)</strong> Requires the nine-member Board of Education, all of whom are appointed by the Governor, to include at least one member with experience or expertise in local government leadership or policymaking, at least one member with experience or expertise in career and technical education, and at least one member with experience or expertise in early childhood education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB879AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB879H1">Substitute HB 879</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1026"><strong>HB 1026</strong></a><strong> (Guzman)</strong> Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (the Council), including at least one of each of the following: teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization who is the parent of a school-age child, school administrator, student, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1026AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1026H1">Substitute HB 1026</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1138"><strong>HB 1138</strong></a><strong> (Reid)</strong> Requires the lot drawing required to be conducted by the Loudoun County Electoral Board to determine the members of four of nine districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for four-year terms and the members of the remaining five districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for two-year terms to ensure the staggering of member terms for such school board to be conducted at the electoral board''s first meeting of 2023 but no later than January 31, 2023.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1138AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1138H1">Substitute HB 1138</a>)\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 22-18. The House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 51-48. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188"><strong>HB 1188</strong></a><strong> (Davis)</strong> Establishes the Student Advisory Board for the purpose of providing student perspectives on matters before the Board of Education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\nDuring each session of the Virginia General Assembly, the VSBA Executive Director and lobbyists are in daily contact discussing legislation and the VSBA policies that drive the association’s lobbying efforts, which include the decision to send action alerts to the membership. The lobbying efforts of the association are based on positions contained in the VSBA Legislative Positions Handbook that is approved each year by the VSBA Delegate Assembly. No school board in Virginia is bound by any position of the Association or obligated to any call to actions. School boards in Virginia have the discretion to adopt a local position that may differ from that of the Association.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Lunch and Learn: How to Develop Legislative Priorities</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Virginia School Boards Association invites you to register and attend a Lunch &amp; Learn webinar designed to assist local school boards in developing legislative priorities for the school division. VSBA Government Relations Specialist, J.T. Kessler, will provide participants with strategies to consider as school boards think about short- and long-term goals around legislative advocacy.\r\n\r\nThe webinar will take place on Tuesday May 24, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. <strong>You must register in advance for this meeting by clicking on the following link:</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe</a>\r\n\r\nAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\r\n\r\nIf you have any questions about this webinar or the information found in the reconvene report, please contact J.T. Kessler at 434-295-8722 ext. 116 or <a href="mailto:jason@vsba.org">jason@vsba.org</a>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Virginia General Assembly: Reconvene Session 2022', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10696-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-12 10:10:26', '2022-05-12 14:10:26', '', 10696, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10697', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10698, 5, '2022-05-12 10:10:38', '2022-05-12 14:10:38', 'On Wednesday April 29, 2022, the Virginia General Assembly met for the 2022 Reconvene Session. This yearly occasion consists of members of the Senate of Virginia and Virginia House of Delegates convening to consider legislative vetoes and recommendations by the Governor to legislation passed in the regular session of the General Assembly. In the 2022 Reconvene Session, there were ten pieces of legislation of interest to K-12 public education that received action by the Governor following adjournment of the 2022 general assembly session on March 12<sup>th</sup>.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb36"><strong>SB 36</strong></a><strong> (Norment)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB4"><strong>HB 4</strong></a><strong> (Wyatt)</strong> Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense. The bill provides, as an exception to the requirement to report any written threats against school personnel while on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, that a principal is not required but may report to the local law-enforcement agency any such incident committed by a student who has an individualized education plan.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB36AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s recommendation on line 36 by a vote of 21-19. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 57-43. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Senate concurred with the Governor’s recommendation on line 52 through line 53 by a vote of 40-0. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 88-12. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was agreed to as it received a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB62"><strong>SB 62</strong></a><strong> (Favola)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb215"><strong>HB 215</strong></a><strong> (Robinson) </strong>Establishes the School Health Services Committee in the legislative branch to review and provide advice to the General Assembly and other policy makers regarding proposals that require local school boards to offer certain health services in a school setting. The bill requires the Committee to submit its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor by October 1 of each year. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2025.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB62AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb78"><strong>SB 78</strong></a><strong> (Norment)</strong> Requires the Board of Education to include an additional minimum 90-minute parent/student driver education component as part of the classroom portion of its driver education program for all public school divisions and provides that participation in such component shall be encouraged but shall not be required. Under current law, participation in such parent/student driver education component is required in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) and optional in all other school divisions. The bill also requires such parent/student driver education component to emphasize the dangers of distracted driving.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB78AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb307"><strong>HB 307</strong></a><strong> (Freitas) </strong>Provides that a public body subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act shall make all reasonable efforts to supply records requested by a citizen at the lowest possible cost. The bill also requires a public body, prior to conducting a search for records, to notify the requester in writing of the public body''s right to make reasonable charges not to exceed its actual cost incurred in accessing, duplicating, supplying, or searching for requested records and inquire of the requester whether he would like to request a cost estimate in advance of the supplying of the requested records.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB307AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb585"><strong>HB 585</strong></a><strong> (Van Valkenburg)</strong> Requires, except for those middle and high school students with significant cognitive disabilities who participate in an alternate assessment, each student in middle and high school to take only those end-of-course Standards of Learning assessments necessary to meet federal accountability requirements and Virginia high school graduation requirements.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB585AG">Governor Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB585H3">Substitute HB 585</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb873"><strong>HB 873</strong></a><strong> (Greenhalgh)</strong> Requires, in the case of any public elementary or secondary school in which a school resource officer is employed, the threat assessment team for such school to include at least one such school resource officer. The bill requires the chief local law-enforcement officer for any local school division in which a public elementary or secondary school does not employ a school resource officer to designate a law-enforcement officer to receive, either in-person or online, the school safety training for public school personnel conducted by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety in accordance with relevant law and requires such officer to serve as the law-enforcement liaison for the school administrator in such a school who has also received such training as prescribed by relevant law.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB873AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb879"><strong>HB 879</strong></a><strong> (Rasoul)</strong> Requires the nine-member Board of Education, all of whom are appointed by the Governor, to include at least one member with experience or expertise in local government leadership or policymaking, at least one member with experience or expertise in career and technical education, and at least one member with experience or expertise in early childhood education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB879AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB879H1">Substitute HB 879</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1026"><strong>HB 1026</strong></a><strong> (Guzman)</strong> Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (the Council), including at least one of each of the following: teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization who is the parent of a school-age child, school administrator, student, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1026AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1026H1">Substitute HB 1026</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1138"><strong>HB 1138</strong></a><strong> (Reid)</strong> Requires the lot drawing required to be conducted by the Loudoun County Electoral Board to determine the members of four of nine districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for four-year terms and the members of the remaining five districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for two-year terms to ensure the staggering of member terms for such school board to be conducted at the electoral board''s first meeting of 2023 but no later than January 31, 2023.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1138AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1138H1">Substitute HB 1138</a>)\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 22-18. The House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 51-48. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188"><strong>HB 1188</strong></a><strong> (Davis)</strong> Establishes the Student Advisory Board for the purpose of providing student perspectives on matters before the Board of Education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\nDuring each session of the Virginia General Assembly, the VSBA Executive Director and lobbyists are in daily contact discussing legislation and the VSBA policies that drive the association’s lobbying efforts, which include the decision to send action alerts to the membership. The lobbying efforts of the association are based on positions contained in the VSBA Legislative Positions Handbook that is approved each year by the VSBA Delegate Assembly. No school board in Virginia is bound by any position of the Association or obligated to any call to actions. School boards in Virginia have the discretion to adopt a local position that may differ from that of the Association.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Lunch and Learn: How to Develop Legislative Priorities</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Virginia School Boards Association invites you to register and attend a Lunch &amp; Learn webinar designed to assist local school boards in developing legislative priorities for the school division. VSBA Government Relations Specialist, J.T. Kessler, will provide participants with strategies to consider as school boards think about short- and long-term goals around legislative advocacy.\r\n\r\nThe webinar will take place on Tuesday May 24, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. <strong>You must register in advance for this meeting by clicking on the following link:</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe</a>\r\n\r\nAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\r\n\r\nIf you have any questions about this webinar or the information found in the reconvene report, please contact J.T. Kessler at 434-295-8722 ext. 116 or <a href="mailto:jason@vsba.org">jason@vsba.org</a>.', 'Virginia General Assembly: Reconvene Session 2022', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10696-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-12 10:10:38', '2022-05-12 14:10:38', '', 10696, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10698', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(10715, 7, '2022-05-20 09:35:19', '2022-05-20 13:35:19', '<h3><span style="color: #e11a3b;"><strong>From the President''s Desk</strong></span></h3>\n\n<hr>\n\n[caption id="attachment_139" align="alignleft" width="240"]<img class="wp-image-139 size-medium" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/Martin_2019-240x300.jpg" alt="Teddy D. Martin, II, President" width="240" height="300"> Teddy D. Martin, II, President[/caption]\n\nDear Fellow School Board Members,\n\nThe VSBA has been quite active this past month. The April Hot Topic Conference focused on Cybersecurity was timely and important to all school divisions. The conference was full of first-hand experiences that we all can learn from. If you were unable to attend, I encourage you to check out the recording. It was also a treat to be able to address our School Board Clerks at the Spring Clerks Conference and emphasize their importance to each of us. As we communicated earlier, we also became a founding member of the Consortium of State School Boards Associations (COSSBA), along with 21 other states, enhancing collaboration across the states with a full complement of training and networking opportunities forthcoming. You may expect more information in June.\n\nAs usual, I must thank our Executive Director Gina Patterson and staff for their dedication in supporting our board and membership, keeping us updated on the latest developments, particularly as the General Assembly’s session continues and we work to keep public education at the forefront. We are blessed to have Gina and staff that go above and beyond for us.\n\nThank you to each regional chair for leading their respective regional meetings. There were many excellent and informative presentations, and it is always great to recognize the exceptional talent we have in the students of our divisions throughout the Commonwealth. Thanks to each of you who attended. Thank you to <a href="https://www.kajeet.net/kajeet-vsba-announce-winners-virginia-education-broadband-grant-2022/?utm_campaign=2022-VSBA-Grant-Announcement&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_content=207468080&amp;hss_channel=tw-288233365">Kajeet</a> for the excellent Education Broadband Grant program, awarding up to $30,000 each to a division in each of our 9 regions. Congratulations to all the winners. Thank you, as always, to Benefit Plan Administrators (BPA) for sponsoring the meetings.\n\nI hope to see many of you at the School Law Conference on June 3<sup>rd</sup> and the Conference on Education on July 19th. I have always been impressed by these two conferences for their vital information as well as the opportunity to learn from our fellow divisions and members. I also encourage you to attend our upcoming webinars and workshops throughout the next couple of months on various topics critical to the success of our divisions and our development as board members.\n\nPlease remember that the VSBA’s staff and our board are here to support you. Please feel free to reach out to me if I may be of assistance. As always, thank you for the opportunity and honor of serving as your President.\n\nThank you again for all you do,\n\n-Teddy Martin', 'From the President''s Desk', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10690-autosave-v1', '', '', '2022-05-20 09:35:19', '2022-05-20 13:35:19', '', 10690, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10715', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10716, 7, '2022-05-12 16:23:02', '2022-05-12 20:23:02', 'Dear Fellow School Board Members,\r\n\r\nThe VSBA has been quite active this past month. The April Hot Topic focused on Cybersecurity was timely and important to all our divisions with experts and first-hand experiences that we all can learn from. If you were unable to attend, I encourage you to check out the recording. It was also a treat to be able to address our School Board Clerks at the Spring Clerks Conference and emphasize their importance to each of us. As we communicated earlier, we also became a founding member of the Consortium of State School Boards Associations (COSSBA), along with 21 other states, enhancing collaboration across the states with a full complement of training and networking opportunities forthcoming. You may expect more information in June.<img class="size-medium wp-image-139 alignleft" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/Martin_2019-240x300.jpg" alt="Teddy D. Martin, II, President" width="240" height="300">\r\n\r\nAs usual, I must thank our Executive Director Gina Patterson and staff for their dedication in supporting our board and membership, keeping us updated on the latest developments, particularly as the General Assembly’s session continues and we work to keep public education at the forefront. We are blessed to have Gina and staff that go above and beyond for us.\r\n\r\nThank you to each of the regional chairs for leading their respective regional meetings. There were many excellent informative presentations, and it is always great to recognize the exceptional talent we have in the students of our divisions throughout the Commonwealth. Thank you to each of you who attended. Thank you to Kajeet for the wonderful Education Broadband Grant program, awarding up to $30,000 each to a division in each of our 9 regions. Congratulations to all the winners. Thank you as always to Benefit Plan Administrators (BPA) for sponsoring the meetings.\r\n\r\nI hope to see many of you at the School Law Conference on June 3<sup>rd</sup> and the Conference on Education on July 19th. I have always been impressed by these two conferences for their vital information as well as the opportunity to learn from our fellow divisions and members. I also encourage you to attend our upcoming webinars and workshops throughout the next couple months on a variety of critical topics to the success of our divisions and our development as board members.\r\n\r\nPlease remember that the VSBA’s staff and our Board are here to support you. Please feel free to reach out to me if I may be of assistance. As always, thank you for the opportunity and honor of serving as your President.\r\n\r\nThank you again for all you do,\r\n\r\n-Teddy Martin', 'From the President''s Desk', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10690-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-12 16:23:02', '2022-05-12 20:23:02', '', 10690, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10716', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10717, 7, '2022-05-12 16:23:55', '2022-05-12 20:23:55', 'Dear Fellow School Board Members,\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_139" align="alignleft" width="240"]<img class="wp-image-139 size-medium" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/Martin_2019-240x300.jpg" alt="Teddy D. Martin, II, President" width="240" height="300"> Teddy D. Martin, II, President[/caption]\r\n\r\nThe VSBA has been quite active this past month. The April Hot Topic focused on Cybersecurity was timely and important to all our divisions with experts and first-hand experiences that we all can learn from. If you were unable to attend, I encourage you to check out the recording. It was also a treat to be able to address our School Board Clerks at the Spring Clerks Conference and emphasize their importance to each of us. As we communicated earlier, we also became a founding member of the Consortium of State School Boards Associations (COSSBA), along with 21 other states, enhancing collaboration across the states with a full complement of training and networking opportunities forthcoming. You may expect more information in June.\r\n\r\nAs usual, I must thank our Executive Director Gina Patterson and staff for their dedication in supporting our board and membership, keeping us updated on the latest developments, particularly as the General Assembly’s session continues and we work to keep public education at the forefront. We are blessed to have Gina and staff that go above and beyond for us.\r\n\r\nThank you to each of the regional chairs for leading their respective regional meetings. There were many excellent informative presentations, and it is always great to recognize the exceptional talent we have in the students of our divisions throughout the Commonwealth. Thank you to each of you who attended. Thank you to Kajeet for the wonderful Education Broadband Grant program, awarding up to $30,000 each to a division in each of our 9 regions. Congratulations to all the winners. Thank you as always to Benefit Plan Administrators (BPA) for sponsoring the meetings.\r\n\r\nI hope to see many of you at the School Law Conference on June 3<sup>rd</sup> and the Conference on Education on July 19th. I have always been impressed by these two conferences for their vital information as well as the opportunity to learn from our fellow divisions and members. I also encourage you to attend our upcoming webinars and workshops throughout the next couple months on a variety of critical topics to the success of our divisions and our development as board members.\r\n\r\nPlease remember that the VSBA’s staff and our Board are here to support you. Please feel free to reach out to me if I may be of assistance. As always, thank you for the opportunity and honor of serving as your President.\r\n\r\nThank you again for all you do,\r\n\r\n-Teddy Martin', 'From the President''s Desk', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10690-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-12 16:23:55', '2022-05-12 20:23:55', '', 10690, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10717', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10718, 7, '2022-05-12 16:24:29', '2022-05-12 20:24:29', 'Dear Fellow School Board Members,\r\n\r\nThe VSBA has been quite active this past month. The April Hot Topic focused on Cybersecurity was timely and important to all our divisions with experts and first-hand experiences that we all can learn from. If you were unable to attend, I encourage you to check out the recording. It was also a treat to be able to address our School Board Clerks at the Spring Clerks Conference and emphasize their importance to each of us. As we communicated earlier, we also became a founding member of the Consortium of State School Boards Associations (COSSBA), along with 21 other states, enhancing collaboration across the states with a full complement of training and networking opportunities forthcoming. You may expect more information in June.\r\n\r\nAs usual, I must thank our Executive Director Gina Patterson and staff for their dedication in supporting our board and membership, keeping us updated on the latest developments, particularly as the General Assembly’s session continues and we work to keep public education at the forefront. We are blessed to have Gina and staff that go above and beyond for us.\r\n\r\nThank you to each of the regional chairs for leading their respective regional meetings. There were many excellent informative presentations, and it is always great to recognize the exceptional talent we have in the students of our divisions throughout the\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_139" align="alignleft" width="240"]<img class="wp-image-139 size-medium" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/Martin_2019-240x300.jpg" alt="Teddy D. Martin, II, President" width="240" height="300"> Teddy D. Martin, II, President[/caption]\r\n\r\nCommonwealth. Thank you to each of you who attended. Thank you to Kajeet for the wonderful Education Broadband Grant program, awarding up to $30,000 each to a division in each of our 9 regions. Congratulations to all the winners. Thank you as always to Benefit Plan Administrators (BPA) for sponsoring the meetings.\r\n\r\nI hope to see many of you at the School Law Conference on June 3<sup>rd</sup> and the Conference on Education on July 19th. I have always been impressed by these two conferences for their vital information as well as the opportunity to learn from our fellow divisions and members. I also encourage you to attend our upcoming webinars and workshops throughout the next couple months on a variety of critical topics to the success of our divisions and our development as board members.\r\n\r\nPlease remember that the VSBA’s staff and our Board are here to support you. Please feel free to reach out to me if I may be of assistance. As always, thank you for the opportunity and honor of serving as your President.\r\n\r\nThank you again for all you do,\r\n\r\n-Teddy Martin', 'From the President''s Desk', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10690-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-12 16:24:29', '2022-05-12 20:24:29', '', 10690, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10718', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10719, 7, '2022-05-12 16:25:00', '2022-05-12 20:25:00', 'Dear Fellow School Board Members,\r\n\r\nThe VSBA has been quite active this past month. The April Hot Topic focused on Cybersecurity was timely and important to all our divisions with experts and first-hand experiences that we all can learn from. If you were unable to attend, I encourage you to check out the recording. It was also a treat to be able to address our School Board Clerks at the Spring Clerks Conference and emphasize their importance to each of us. As we communicated earlier, we also became a founding member of the Consortium of State School Boards Associations (COSSBA), along with 21 other states, enhancing collaboration across the states with a full complement of training and networking opportunities forthcoming. You may expect more information in June.\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_139" align="alignleft" width="240"]<img class="wp-image-139 size-medium" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/Martin_2019-240x300.jpg" alt="Teddy D. Martin, II, President" width="240" height="300"> Teddy D. Martin, II, President[/caption]\r\n\r\nAs usual, I must thank our Executive Director Gina Patterson and staff for their dedication in supporting our board and membership, keeping us updated on the latest developments, particularly as the General Assembly’s session continues and we work to keep public education at the forefront. We are blessed to have Gina and staff that go above and beyond for us.\r\n\r\nThank you to each of the regional chairs for leading their respective regional meetings. There were many excellent informative presentations, and it is always great to recognize the exceptional talent we have in the students of our divisions throughout the\r\n\r\nCommonwealth. Thank you to each of you who attended. Thank you to Kajeet for the wonderful Education Broadband Grant program, awarding up to $30,000 each to a division in each of our 9 regions. Congratulations to all the winners. Thank you as always to Benefit Plan Administrators (BPA) for sponsoring the meetings.\r\n\r\nI hope to see many of you at the School Law Conference on June 3<sup>rd</sup> and the Conference on Education on July 19th. I have always been impressed by these two conferences for their vital information as well as the opportunity to learn from our fellow divisions and members. I also encourage you to attend our upcoming webinars and workshops throughout the next couple months on a variety of critical topics to the success of our divisions and our development as board members.\r\n\r\nPlease remember that the VSBA’s staff and our Board are here to support you. Please feel free to reach out to me if I may be of assistance. As always, thank you for the opportunity and honor of serving as your President.\r\n\r\nThank you again for all you do,\r\n\r\n-Teddy Martin', 'From the President''s Desk', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10690-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-12 16:25:00', '2022-05-12 20:25:00', '', 10690, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10719', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10720, 7, '2022-05-12 16:25:27', '2022-05-12 20:25:27', 'Dear Fellow School Board Members,\r\n\r\nThe VSBA has been quite active this past month. The April Hot Topic focused on Cybersecurity was timely and important to all our divisions with experts and first-hand experiences that we all can learn from. If you were unable to attend, I encourage you to check out the recording. It was also a treat to be able to address our School Board Clerks at the Spring Clerks Conference and emphasize their importance to each of us. As we communicated earlier, we also became a founding member of the Consortium of State School Boards Associations (COSSBA), along with 21 other states, enhancing collaboration across the states with a full complement of training and networking opportunities forthcoming. You may expect more information in June.\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_139" align="alignleft" width="240"]<img class="wp-image-139 size-medium" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/Martin_2019-240x300.jpg" alt="Teddy D. Martin, II, President" width="240" height="300"> Teddy D. Martin, II, President[/caption]\r\n\r\nAs usual, I must thank our Executive Director Gina Patterson and staff for their dedication in supporting our board and membership, keeping us updated on the latest developments, particularly as the General Assembly’s session continues and we work to keep public education at the forefront. We are blessed to have Gina and staff that go above and beyond for us.\r\n\r\nThank you to each of the regional chairs for leading their respective regional meetings. There were many excellent informative presentations, and it is always great to recognize the exceptional talent we have in the students of our divisions throughout the Commonwealth. Thank you to each of you who attended. Thank you to Kajeet for the wonderful Education Broadband Grant program, awarding up to $30,000 each to a division in each of our 9 regions. Congratulations to all the winners. Thank you as always to Benefit Plan Administrators (BPA) for sponsoring the meetings.\r\n\r\nI hope to see many of you at the School Law Conference on June 3<sup>rd</sup> and the Conference on Education on July 19th. I have always been impressed by these two conferences for their vital information as well as the opportunity to learn from our fellow divisions and members. I also encourage you to attend our upcoming webinars and workshops throughout the next couple months on a variety of critical topics to the success of our divisions and our development as board members.\r\n\r\nPlease remember that the VSBA’s staff and our Board are here to support you. Please feel free to reach out to me if I may be of assistance. As always, thank you for the opportunity and honor of serving as your President.\r\n\r\nThank you again for all you do,\r\n\r\n-Teddy Martin', 'From the President''s Desk', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10690-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-12 16:25:27', '2022-05-12 20:25:27', '', 10690, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10720', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10722, 7, '2022-05-16 10:19:29', '2022-05-16 14:19:29', '<h3><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">From the Executive Director</span></strong></h3>\n\n<hr>\n\n[caption id="attachment_271" align="alignleft" width="200"]<img class="wp-image-271 size-medium" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Gina_NEW-2018-200x300.jpg" alt="Gina Patterson, Executive Director" width="200" height="300"> Gina Patterson, Executive Director[/caption]\n\nThe VSBA just finished wrapping up the last of our 2022 Spring Regional Networking Meetings, with the Blue Ridge Region closing out the 2022 sessions. Unfortunately, because of advance planning, and most of the meetings being hosted in schools, the regional meetings were all virtual. Hopefully next year we will be able to have the nine regional meetings in person. Our regional officers did an excellent job finding timely speakers and entertainment for the meetings. As I say each year, and this year is no exception, the artwork is amazing. If you haven’t had a chance, please go to the VSBA website and check out the winning art from this year. <a href="https://www.vsba.org/resources/competitions-and-challenges/spring-regional-art-contest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Click here to view the 2022 student artwork.</a>\n\nAs the school year slows down, it is a perfect time to schedule a customized board retreat. VSBA recommends every governance team (the board and superintendent) hold a retreat at least once a year. A small investment of time in targeted board development can pay big dividends. If you have new members as of January or new ones coming on in July, this is the perfect time for a retreat. VSBA offers customized facilitated training based on the governance teams'' individual needs. By meeting at the VSBA Center for Board Development in Charlottesville, boards have the opportunity to meet in an environment that is unrestricted by routines allowing them to focus on the work of the board. It permits more time for discussion, creative thinking, and strategic planning. Remember, a retreat is an excellent time to introduce and discuss new topics and perhaps provide a timely opportunity for the board to hit that reset button. Governance team retreats are more effective when attended by all board members and the superintendent. There doesn''t necessarily need to be an issue to schedule a retreat. It is better to plan one before challenges arrive, as the retreat will provide boards with the tools and resources to handle those times when a crucial conversation is needed. Though the purposes for retreats vary, boards should take advantage of the opportunity to accomplish organizational goals that can''t be achieved through routine meetings that fail to allow boards the opportunity to stop and reflect on how they can do things differently.\n\n<em>Some of the most requested retreat topics<strong>:</strong></em>\n<ul>\n 	<li>Roles and Responsibilities</li>\n 	<li>Division Goal Setting</li>\n 	<li>Superintendent Evaluation</li>\n 	<li>Improving Communication Skills</li>\n 	<li>Conflict Resolution</li>\n 	<li>Board Operating Procedures (Norms/Protocols)</li>\n 	<li>Trust and Teamwork</li>\n 	<li>Board Self-Evaluation</li>\n 	<li>Managing Effective Meetings</li>\n 	<li>New Superintendent Transition</li>\n</ul>\nPlease reach out to VSBA Assistant Executive Director Tom Brewster (<a href="mailto:tom@vsba.org">tom@vsba.org</a>) for additional information on VSBA’s offerings to our member board.\n\n<span data-preserver-spaces="true">We look forward to seeing you next month at the VSBA Annual School Law Conference in Richmond. With so many policies and laws changing constantly, all school board members need to be current on these changes. </span><a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/School-Law-Conference-Brochure-2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Click here to view the Law Conference brochure.</span></a>\n\nThanks for all that you do!\n\nGina', 'From the Executive Director', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10693-autosave-v1', '', '', '2022-05-16 10:19:29', '2022-05-16 14:19:29', '', 10693, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10722', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10723, 7, '2022-05-12 16:29:56', '2022-05-12 20:29:56', '[caption id="attachment_271" align="alignleft" width="200"]<img class="wp-image-271 size-medium" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Gina_NEW-2018-200x300.jpg" alt="Gina Patterson, Executive Director" width="200" height="300"> Gina Patterson, Executive Director[/caption]\r\n\r\nVSBA just finished wrapping up the last of the 2022 Spring Regional Networking Meetings last week.  The Blue Ridge Region closed out the 2022 Regional Meetings.  Unfortunately, because of advance planning, and most of the regional meetings being hosted in a school building, the regional meetings were all virtual.  Hopefully next year we will be able to have the nine regional meetings in person.  The regional officers did a wonderful job find timely speakers, and entertainment for the meetings.  As I say each year, and this year is no exception, the artwork each year is amazing. If you haven’t had a chance, please go on the VSBA website and checkout the winning art from this year. <a href="https://www.vsba.org/resources/competitions-and-challenges/spring-regional-art-contest/">Click here to view the 2022 student artwork.</a>\r\n\r\nAs the school year start to slow down, it is a perfect time to schedule a customized board retreat. VSBA recommends every governance team (the board and superintendent) hold a retreat at least once a year.  A small investment of time in targeted board development can pay big dividends. You may have new members as of January or new ones coming on in July, perfect timing for a retreat.  VSBA offers customized facilitated trainings, based on the individual needs of the governance teams.  By meeting at the VSBA Center for Board Development in Charlottesville, it allows the board to meet in an environment that is unrestricted by routines, and just focus on the work of the board.  It allows for more time for discussion, creative thinking, and strategic planning.  Remember, a retreat is a good time to also introduce and discuss new topics, and is a time for the board to do reset. Governance team retreats are more effective when attended by all members of the board, and superintendent. There doesn’t necessarily need to be an issue to schedule a retreat, in fact it is better to schedule prior to one arriving, as it provides tools and resources to handle those times when crucial conversation is needed. Though the purposes for retreats vary, the main point is to use this opportunity to accomplish something that can’t be done through routine meetings, that don’t allow boards to stop and reflect on how they can do things differently.\r\n\r\n<em>Some of the most requested retreat topics<strong>:</strong></em>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Roles and Responsibilities</li>\r\n 	<li>Division Goal Setting</li>\r\n 	<li>Superintendent Evaluation</li>\r\n 	<li>Improving Communication Skills</li>\r\n 	<li>Conflict Resolution</li>\r\n 	<li>Board Operating Procedures (Norms/Protocols)</li>\r\n 	<li>Trust and Teamwork</li>\r\n 	<li>Board Self-Evaluation</li>\r\n 	<li>Managing Effective Meetings</li>\r\n 	<li>New Superintendent Transition</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nPlease reach out to VSBA Assistant Executive Director Tom Brewster (tom@vsba.org) for additional information on VSBA’s offerings to our member board.\r\n\r\nWe look forward to seeing you next month at the VSBA Annual School Law Conference in Richmond.  With so many policies and laws changing constantly, it is important for all school board members to be current on these changes.  <a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/School-Law-Conference-Brochure-2022.pdf">Click here to view the Law Conference brochure.</a>\r\n\r\nThanks for all that you do.', 'From the Executive Director', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10693-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-12 16:29:56', '2022-05-12 20:29:56', '', 10693, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10723', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10726, 7, '2022-05-12 16:33:40', '2022-05-12 20:33:40', 'Dear Fellow School Board Members,\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_139" align="alignleft" width="240"]<img class="wp-image-139 size-medium" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/Martin_2019-240x300.jpg" alt="Teddy D. Martin, II, President" width="240" height="300"> Teddy D. Martin, II, President[/caption]\r\n\r\nThe VSBA has been quite active this past month. The April Hot Topic focused on Cybersecurity was timely and important to all our divisions with experts and first-hand experiences that we all can learn from. If you were unable to attend, I encourage you to check out the recording. It was also a treat to be able to address our School Board Clerks at the Spring Clerks Conference and emphasize their importance to each of us. As we communicated earlier, we also became a founding member of the Consortium of State School Boards Associations (COSSBA), along with 21 other states, enhancing collaboration across the states with a full complement of training and networking opportunities forthcoming. You may expect more information in June.\r\n\r\nAs usual, I must thank our Executive Director Gina Patterson and staff for their dedication in supporting our board and membership, keeping us updated on the latest developments, particularly as the General Assembly’s session continues and we work to keep public education at the forefront. We are blessed to have Gina and staff that go above and beyond for us.\r\n\r\nThank you to each of the regional chairs for leading their respective regional meetings. There were many excellent informative presentations, and it is always great to recognize the exceptional talent we have in the students of our divisions throughout the Commonwealth. Thank you to each of you who attended. Thank you to Kajeet for the wonderful Education Broadband Grant program, awarding up to $30,000 each to a division in each of our 9 regions. Congratulations to all the winners. Thank you as always to Benefit Plan Administrators (BPA) for sponsoring the meetings.\r\n\r\nI hope to see many of you at the School Law Conference on June 3<sup>rd</sup> and the Conference on Education on July 19th. I have always been impressed by these two conferences for their vital information as well as the opportunity to learn from our fellow divisions and members. I also encourage you to attend our upcoming webinars and workshops throughout the next couple months on a variety of critical topics to the success of our divisions and our development as board members.\r\n\r\nPlease remember that the VSBA’s staff and our Board are here to support you. Please feel free to reach out to me if I may be of assistance. As always, thank you for the opportunity and honor of serving as your President.\r\n\r\nThank you again for all you do,\r\n\r\n-Teddy Martin', 'From the President''s Desk', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10690-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-12 16:33:40', '2022-05-12 20:33:40', '', 10690, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10726', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10727, 7, '2022-05-12 16:34:06', '2022-05-12 20:34:06', '[caption id="attachment_139" align="alignleft" width="240"]<img class="wp-image-139 size-medium" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/Martin_2019-240x300.jpg" alt="Teddy D. Martin, II, President" width="240" height="300"> Teddy D. Martin, II, President[/caption]\r\n\r\nDear Fellow School Board Members,\r\n\r\nThe VSBA has been quite active this past month. The April Hot Topic focused on Cybersecurity was timely and important to all our divisions with experts and first-hand experiences that we all can learn from. If you were unable to attend, I encourage you to check out the recording. It was also a treat to be able to address our School Board Clerks at the Spring Clerks Conference and emphasize their importance to each of us. As we communicated earlier, we also became a founding member of the Consortium of State School Boards Associations (COSSBA), along with 21 other states, enhancing collaboration across the states with a full complement of training and networking opportunities forthcoming. You may expect more information in June.\r\n\r\nAs usual, I must thank our Executive Director Gina Patterson and staff for their dedication in supporting our board and membership, keeping us updated on the latest developments, particularly as the General Assembly’s session continues and we work to keep public education at the forefront. We are blessed to have Gina and staff that go above and beyond for us.\r\n\r\nThank you to each of the regional chairs for leading their respective regional meetings. There were many excellent informative presentations, and it is always great to recognize the exceptional talent we have in the students of our divisions throughout the Commonwealth. Thank you to each of you who attended. Thank you to Kajeet for the wonderful Education Broadband Grant program, awarding up to $30,000 each to a division in each of our 9 regions. Congratulations to all the winners. Thank you as always to Benefit Plan Administrators (BPA) for sponsoring the meetings.\r\n\r\nI hope to see many of you at the School Law Conference on June 3<sup>rd</sup> and the Conference on Education on July 19th. I have always been impressed by these two conferences for their vital information as well as the opportunity to learn from our fellow divisions and members. I also encourage you to attend our upcoming webinars and workshops throughout the next couple months on a variety of critical topics to the success of our divisions and our development as board members.\r\n\r\nPlease remember that the VSBA’s staff and our Board are here to support you. Please feel free to reach out to me if I may be of assistance. As always, thank you for the opportunity and honor of serving as your President.\r\n\r\nThank you again for all you do,\r\n\r\n-Teddy Martin', 'From the President''s Desk', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10690-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-12 16:34:06', '2022-05-12 20:34:06', '', 10690, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10727', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(10729, 5, '2022-05-12 23:13:48', '2022-05-13 03:13:48', 'To read the daily news for Friday, May 13, 2022<a href="https://conta.cc/3L451SM"> click here. </a>', 'May 13, 2022', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10728-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-12 23:13:48', '2022-05-13 03:13:48', '', 10728, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10729', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10730, 7, '2022-05-13 07:55:07', '2022-05-13 11:55:07', '[caption id="attachment_271" align="alignleft" width="200"]<img class="wp-image-271 size-medium" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Gina_NEW-2018-200x300.jpg" alt="Gina Patterson, Executive Director" width="200" height="300"> Gina Patterson, Executive Director[/caption]\r\n<h3><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">From the Executive Director</span> </strong></h3>\r\nVSBA just finished wrapping up the last of the 2022 Spring Regional Networking Meetings last week.  The Blue Ridge Region closed out the 2022 Regional Meetings.  Unfortunately, because of advance planning, and most of the regional meetings being hosted in a school building, the regional meetings were all virtual.  Hopefully next year we will be able to have the nine regional meetings in person.  The regional officers did a wonderful job find timely speakers, and entertainment for the meetings.  As I say each year, and this year is no exception, the artwork each year is amazing. If you haven’t had a chance, please go on the VSBA website and checkout the winning art from this year. <a href="https://www.vsba.org/resources/competitions-and-challenges/spring-regional-art-contest/">Click here to view the 2022 student artwork.</a>\r\n\r\nAs the school year start to slow down, it is a perfect time to schedule a customized board retreat. VSBA recommends every governance team (the board and superintendent) hold a retreat at least once a year.  A small investment of time in targeted board development can pay big dividends. You may have new members as of January or new ones coming on in July, perfect timing for a retreat.  VSBA offers customized facilitated trainings, based on the individual needs of the governance teams.  By meeting at the VSBA Center for Board Development in Charlottesville, it allows the board to meet in an environment that is unrestricted by routines, and just focus on the work of the board.  It allows for more time for discussion, creative thinking, and strategic planning.  Remember, a retreat is a good time to also introduce and discuss new topics, and is a time for the board to do reset. Governance team retreats are more effective when attended by all members of the board, and superintendent. There doesn’t necessarily need to be an issue to schedule a retreat, in fact it is better to schedule prior to one arriving, as it provides tools and resources to handle those times when crucial conversation is needed. Though the purposes for retreats vary, the main point is to use this opportunity to accomplish something that can’t be done through routine meetings, that don’t allow boards to stop and reflect on how they can do things differently.\r\n\r\n<em>Some of the most requested retreat topics<strong>:</strong></em>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Roles and Responsibilities</li>\r\n 	<li>Division Goal Setting</li>\r\n 	<li>Superintendent Evaluation</li>\r\n 	<li>Improving Communication Skills</li>\r\n 	<li>Conflict Resolution</li>\r\n 	<li>Board Operating Procedures (Norms/Protocols)</li>\r\n 	<li>Trust and Teamwork</li>\r\n 	<li>Board Self-Evaluation</li>\r\n 	<li>Managing Effective Meetings</li>\r\n 	<li>New Superintendent Transition</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nPlease reach out to VSBA Assistant Executive Director Tom Brewster (tom@vsba.org) for additional information on VSBA’s offerings to our member board.\r\n\r\nWe look forward to seeing you next month at the VSBA Annual School Law Conference in Richmond.  With so many policies and laws changing constantly, it is important for all school board members to be current on these changes.  <a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/School-Law-Conference-Brochure-2022.pdf">Click here to view the Law Conference brochure.</a>\r\n\r\nThanks for all that you do.', 'From the Executive Director', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10693-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-13 07:55:07', '2022-05-13 11:55:07', '', 10693, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10730', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10732, 7, '2022-05-13 08:05:10', '2022-05-13 12:05:10', '[caption id="attachment_271" align="alignleft" width="200"]<img class="wp-image-271 size-medium" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Gina_NEW-2018-200x300.jpg" alt="Gina Patterson, Executive Director" width="200" height="300"> Gina Patterson, Executive Director[/caption]\r\n<h3><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">From the Executive Director</span> </strong></h3>\r\nThe VSBA just finished wrapping up the last of the 2022 Spring Regional Networking Meetings last week.  The Blue Ridge Region closed out our 2022 Regional Meetings.  Unfortunately, because of advance planning, and most of the regional meetings being hosted in a school building, the regional meetings were all virtual.  Hopefully next year we will be able to have the nine regional meetings in person. The regional officers did a wonderful job find timely speakers, and entertainment for the meetings.  As I say each year, and this year is no exception, the artwork each year is amazing. If you haven’t had a chance, please go on the VSBA website and checkout the winning art from this year. <a href="https://www.vsba.org/resources/competitions-and-challenges/spring-regional-art-contest/">Click here to view the 2022 student artwork.</a>\r\n\r\nAs the school year start to slow down, it is a perfect time to schedule a customized board retreat. VSBA recommends every governance team (the board and superintendent) hold a retreat at least once a year.  A small investment of time in targeted board development can pay big dividends. You may have new members as of January or new ones coming on in July, perfect timing for a retreat.  VSBA offers customized facilitated trainings, based on the individual needs of the governance teams.  By meeting at the VSBA Center for Board Development in Charlottesville, it allows the board to meet in an environment that is unrestricted by routines, and just focus on the work of the board.  It allows for more time for discussion, creative thinking, and strategic planning.  Remember, a retreat is a good time to also introduce and discuss new topics, and is a time for the board to do reset. Governance team retreats are more effective when attended by all members of the board, and superintendent. There doesn’t necessarily need to be an issue to schedule a retreat, in fact it is better to schedule prior to one arriving, as it provides tools and resources to handle those times when crucial conversation is needed. Though the purposes for retreats vary, the main point is to use this opportunity to accomplish something that can’t be done through routine meetings, that don’t allow boards to stop and reflect on how they can do things differently.\r\n\r\n<em>Some of the most requested retreat topics<strong>:</strong></em>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Roles and Responsibilities</li>\r\n 	<li>Division Goal Setting</li>\r\n 	<li>Superintendent Evaluation</li>\r\n 	<li>Improving Communication Skills</li>\r\n 	<li>Conflict Resolution</li>\r\n 	<li>Board Operating Procedures (Norms/Protocols)</li>\r\n 	<li>Trust and Teamwork</li>\r\n 	<li>Board Self-Evaluation</li>\r\n 	<li>Managing Effective Meetings</li>\r\n 	<li>New Superintendent Transition</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nPlease reach out to VSBA Assistant Executive Director Tom Brewster (<a href="mailto:tom@vsba.org">tom@vsba.org</a>) for additional information on VSBA’s offerings to our member board.\r\n\r\nWe look forward to seeing you next month at the VSBA Annual School Law Conference in Richmond.  With so many policies and laws changing constantly, it is important for all school board members to be current on these changes.  <a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/School-Law-Conference-Brochure-2022.pdf">Click here to view the Law Conference brochure.</a>\r\n\r\nThanks for all that you do.', 'From the Executive Director', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10693-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-13 08:05:10', '2022-05-13 12:05:10', '', 10693, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10732', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10734, 7, '2022-05-13 08:43:12', '2022-05-13 12:43:12', '[caption id="attachment_139" align="alignleft" width="240"]<img class="wp-image-139 size-medium" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/Martin_2019-240x300.jpg" alt="Teddy D. Martin, II, President" width="240" height="300"> Teddy D. Martin, II, President[/caption]\r\n<h3><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">From the President''s Desk</span></strong></h3>\r\nDear Fellow School Board Members,\r\n\r\nThe VSBA has been quite active this past month. The April Hot Topic focused on Cybersecurity was timely and important to all our divisions with experts and first-hand experiences that we all can learn from. If you were unable to attend, I encourage you to check out the recording. It was also a treat to be able to address our School Board Clerks at the Spring Clerks Conference and emphasize their importance to each of us. As we communicated earlier, we also became a founding member of the Consortium of State School Boards Associations (COSSBA), along with 21 other states, enhancing collaboration across the states with a full complement of training and networking opportunities forthcoming. You may expect more information in June.\r\n\r\nAs usual, I must thank our Executive Director Gina Patterson and staff for their dedication in supporting our board and membership, keeping us updated on the latest developments, particularly as the General Assembly’s session continues and we work to keep public education at the forefront. We are blessed to have Gina and staff that go above and beyond for us.\r\n\r\nThank you to each of the regional chairs for leading their respective regional meetings. There were many excellent informative presentations, and it is always great to recognize the exceptional talent we have in the students of our divisions throughout the Commonwealth. Thank you to each of you who attended. Thank you to Kajeet for the wonderful Education Broadband Grant program, awarding up to $30,000 each to a division in each of our 9 regions. Congratulations to all the winners. Thank you as always to Benefit Plan Administrators (BPA) for sponsoring the meetings.\r\n\r\nI hope to see many of you at the School Law Conference on June 3<sup>rd</sup> and the Conference on Education on July 19th. I have always been impressed by these two conferences for their vital information as well as the opportunity to learn from our fellow divisions and members. I also encourage you to attend our upcoming webinars and workshops throughout the next couple months on a variety of critical topics to the success of our divisions and our development as board members.\r\n\r\nPlease remember that the VSBA’s staff and our Board are here to support you. Please feel free to reach out to me if I may be of assistance. As always, thank you for the opportunity and honor of serving as your President.\r\n\r\nThank you again for all you do,\r\n\r\n-Teddy Martin', 'From the President''s Desk', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10690-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-13 08:43:12', '2022-05-13 12:43:12', '', 10690, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10734', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10735, 7, '2022-05-13 08:49:54', '2022-05-13 12:49:54', '<h3>Superintendent Evaluation Documents</h3>\r\n<a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Guidelines-for-Uniform-Performance-Standards-and-Evaluation_Jan2020.pdf">Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Superintendents </a>\r\n<a href="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/research_synthesis_of_superintendent_eval.pdf">Research Synthesis of Virginia Superintendent Evaluation Competencies and Standards</a>', 'Superintendent Evaluation', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '4047-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-13 08:49:54', '2022-05-13 12:49:54', '', 4047, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10735', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10736, 5, '2022-05-13 10:15:53', '2022-05-13 14:15:53', '<img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-273" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/KESSLER_JT3969-300x240.jpg" alt="JT Kessler, Government Relations Specialist" width="300" height="240">On Wednesday April 29, 2022, the Virginia General Assembly met for the 2022 Reconvene Session. This yearly occasion consists of members of the Senate of Virginia and Virginia House of Delegates convening to consider legislative vetoes and recommendations by the Governor to legislation passed in the regular session of the General Assembly. In the 2022 Reconvene Session, there were ten pieces of legislation of interest to K-12 public education that received action by the Governor following adjournment of the 2022 general assembly session on March 12<sup>th</sup>.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb36"><strong>SB 36</strong></a><strong> (Norment)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB4"><strong>HB 4</strong></a><strong> (Wyatt)</strong> Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense. The bill provides, as an exception to the requirement to report any written threats against school personnel while on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, that a principal is not required but may report to the local law-enforcement agency any such incident committed by a student who has an individualized education plan.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB36AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s recommendation on line 36 by a vote of 21-19. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 57-43. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Senate concurred with the Governor’s recommendation on line 52 through line 53 by a vote of 40-0. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 88-12. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was agreed to as it received a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB62"><strong>SB 62</strong></a><strong> (Favola)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb215"><strong>HB 215</strong></a><strong> (Robinson) </strong>Establishes the School Health Services Committee in the legislative branch to review and provide advice to the General Assembly and other policy makers regarding proposals that require local school boards to offer certain health services in a school setting. The bill requires the Committee to submit its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor by October 1 of each year. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2025.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB62AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb78"><strong>SB 78</strong></a><strong> (Norment)</strong> Requires the Board of Education to include an additional minimum 90-minute parent/student driver education component as part of the classroom portion of its driver education program for all public school divisions and provides that participation in such component shall be encouraged but shall not be required. Under current law, participation in such parent/student driver education component is required in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) and optional in all other school divisions. The bill also requires such parent/student driver education component to emphasize the dangers of distracted driving.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB78AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb307"><strong>HB 307</strong></a><strong> (Freitas) </strong>Provides that a public body subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act shall make all reasonable efforts to supply records requested by a citizen at the lowest possible cost. The bill also requires a public body, prior to conducting a search for records, to notify the requester in writing of the public body''s right to make reasonable charges not to exceed its actual cost incurred in accessing, duplicating, supplying, or searching for requested records and inquire of the requester whether he would like to request a cost estimate in advance of the supplying of the requested records.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB307AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb585"><strong>HB 585</strong></a><strong> (Van Valkenburg)</strong> Requires, except for those middle and high school students with significant cognitive disabilities who participate in an alternate assessment, each student in middle and high school to take only those end-of-course Standards of Learning assessments necessary to meet federal accountability requirements and Virginia high school graduation requirements.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB585AG">Governor Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB585H3">Substitute HB 585</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb873"><strong>HB 873</strong></a><strong> (Greenhalgh)</strong> Requires, in the case of any public elementary or secondary school in which a school resource officer is employed, the threat assessment team for such school to include at least one such school resource officer. The bill requires the chief local law-enforcement officer for any local school division in which a public elementary or secondary school does not employ a school resource officer to designate a law-enforcement officer to receive, either in-person or online, the school safety training for public school personnel conducted by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety in accordance with relevant law and requires such officer to serve as the law-enforcement liaison for the school administrator in such a school who has also received such training as prescribed by relevant law.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB873AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb879"><strong>HB 879</strong></a><strong> (Rasoul)</strong> Requires the nine-member Board of Education, all of whom are appointed by the Governor, to include at least one member with experience or expertise in local government leadership or policymaking, at least one member with experience or expertise in career and technical education, and at least one member with experience or expertise in early childhood education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB879AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB879H1">Substitute HB 879</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1026"><strong>HB 1026</strong></a><strong> (Guzman)</strong> Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (the Council), including at least one of each of the following: teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization who is the parent of a school-age child, school administrator, student, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1026AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1026H1">Substitute HB 1026</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1138"><strong>HB 1138</strong></a><strong> (Reid)</strong> Requires the lot drawing required to be conducted by the Loudoun County Electoral Board to determine the members of four of nine districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for four-year terms and the members of the remaining five districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for two-year terms to ensure the staggering of member terms for such school board to be conducted at the electoral board''s first meeting of 2023 but no later than January 31, 2023.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1138AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1138H1">Substitute HB 1138</a>)\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 22-18. The House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 51-48. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188"><strong>HB 1188</strong></a><strong> (Davis)</strong> Establishes the Student Advisory Board for the purpose of providing student perspectives on matters before the Board of Education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\nDuring each session of the Virginia General Assembly, the VSBA Executive Director and lobbyists are in daily contact discussing legislation and the VSBA policies that drive the association’s lobbying efforts, which include the decision to send action alerts to the membership. The lobbying efforts of the association are based on positions contained in the VSBA Legislative Positions Handbook that is approved each year by the VSBA Delegate Assembly. No school board in Virginia is bound by any position of the Association or obligated to any call to actions. School boards in Virginia have the discretion to adopt a local position that may differ from that of the Association.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Lunch and Learn: How to Develop Legislative Priorities</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Virginia School Boards Association invites you to register and attend a Lunch &amp; Learn webinar designed to assist local school boards in developing legislative priorities for the school division. VSBA Government Relations Specialist, J.T. Kessler, will provide participants with strategies to consider as school boards think about short- and long-term goals around legislative advocacy.\r\n\r\nThe webinar will take place on Tuesday May 24, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. <strong>You must register in advance for this meeting by clicking on the following link:</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe</a>\r\n\r\nAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\r\n\r\nIf you have any questions about this webinar or the information found in the reconvene report, please contact J.T. Kessler at 434-295-8722 ext. 116 or <a href="mailto:jason@vsba.org">jason@vsba.org</a>.', 'Virginia General Assembly: Reconvene Session 2022', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10696-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-13 10:15:53', '2022-05-13 14:15:53', '', 10696, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10736', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(10738, 5, '2022-05-13 10:17:02', '2022-05-13 14:17:02', '<img class="wp-image-273 size-medium alignleft" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/KESSLER_JT3969-300x240.jpg" alt="JT Kessler, Government Relations Specialist" width="300" height="240">On Wednesday April 29, 2022, the Virginia General Assembly met for the 2022 Reconvene Session. This yearly occasion consists of members of the Senate of Virginia and Virginia House of Delegates convening to consider legislative vetoes and recommendations by the Governor to legislation passed in the regular session of the General Assembly. In the 2022 Reconvene Session, there were ten pieces of legislation of interest to K-12 public education that received action by the Governor following adjournment of the 2022 general assembly session on March 12<sup>th</sup>.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb36"><strong>SB 36</strong></a><strong> (Norment)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB4"><strong>HB 4</strong></a><strong> (Wyatt)</strong> Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense. The bill provides, as an exception to the requirement to report any written threats against school personnel while on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, that a principal is not required but may report to the local law-enforcement agency any such incident committed by a student who has an individualized education plan.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB36AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s recommendation on line 36 by a vote of 21-19. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 57-43. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Senate concurred with the Governor’s recommendation on line 52 through line 53 by a vote of 40-0. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 88-12. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was agreed to as it received a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB62"><strong>SB 62</strong></a><strong> (Favola)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb215"><strong>HB 215</strong></a><strong> (Robinson) </strong>Establishes the School Health Services Committee in the legislative branch to review and provide advice to the General Assembly and other policy makers regarding proposals that require local school boards to offer certain health services in a school setting. The bill requires the Committee to submit its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor by October 1 of each year. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2025.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB62AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb78"><strong>SB 78</strong></a><strong> (Norment)</strong> Requires the Board of Education to include an additional minimum 90-minute parent/student driver education component as part of the classroom portion of its driver education program for all public school divisions and provides that participation in such component shall be encouraged but shall not be required. Under current law, participation in such parent/student driver education component is required in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) and optional in all other school divisions. The bill also requires such parent/student driver education component to emphasize the dangers of distracted driving.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB78AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb307"><strong>HB 307</strong></a><strong> (Freitas) </strong>Provides that a public body subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act shall make all reasonable efforts to supply records requested by a citizen at the lowest possible cost. The bill also requires a public body, prior to conducting a search for records, to notify the requester in writing of the public body''s right to make reasonable charges not to exceed its actual cost incurred in accessing, duplicating, supplying, or searching for requested records and inquire of the requester whether he would like to request a cost estimate in advance of the supplying of the requested records.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB307AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb585"><strong>HB 585</strong></a><strong> (Van Valkenburg)</strong> Requires, except for those middle and high school students with significant cognitive disabilities who participate in an alternate assessment, each student in middle and high school to take only those end-of-course Standards of Learning assessments necessary to meet federal accountability requirements and Virginia high school graduation requirements.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB585AG">Governor Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB585H3">Substitute HB 585</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb873"><strong>HB 873</strong></a><strong> (Greenhalgh)</strong> Requires, in the case of any public elementary or secondary school in which a school resource officer is employed, the threat assessment team for such school to include at least one such school resource officer. The bill requires the chief local law-enforcement officer for any local school division in which a public elementary or secondary school does not employ a school resource officer to designate a law-enforcement officer to receive, either in-person or online, the school safety training for public school personnel conducted by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety in accordance with relevant law and requires such officer to serve as the law-enforcement liaison for the school administrator in such a school who has also received such training as prescribed by relevant law.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB873AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb879"><strong>HB 879</strong></a><strong> (Rasoul)</strong> Requires the nine-member Board of Education, all of whom are appointed by the Governor, to include at least one member with experience or expertise in local government leadership or policymaking, at least one member with experience or expertise in career and technical education, and at least one member with experience or expertise in early childhood education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB879AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB879H1">Substitute HB 879</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1026"><strong>HB 1026</strong></a><strong> (Guzman)</strong> Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (the Council), including at least one of each of the following: teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization who is the parent of a school-age child, school administrator, student, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1026AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1026H1">Substitute HB 1026</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1138"><strong>HB 1138</strong></a><strong> (Reid)</strong> Requires the lot drawing required to be conducted by the Loudoun County Electoral Board to determine the members of four of nine districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for four-year terms and the members of the remaining five districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for two-year terms to ensure the staggering of member terms for such school board to be conducted at the electoral board''s first meeting of 2023 but no later than January 31, 2023.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1138AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1138H1">Substitute HB 1138</a>)\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 22-18. The House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 51-48. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188"><strong>HB 1188</strong></a><strong> (Davis)</strong> Establishes the Student Advisory Board for the purpose of providing student perspectives on matters before the Board of Education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\nDuring each session of the Virginia General Assembly, the VSBA Executive Director and lobbyists are in daily contact discussing legislation and the VSBA policies that drive the association’s lobbying efforts, which include the decision to send action alerts to the membership. The lobbying efforts of the association are based on positions contained in the VSBA Legislative Positions Handbook that is approved each year by the VSBA Delegate Assembly. No school board in Virginia is bound by any position of the Association or obligated to any call to actions. School boards in Virginia have the discretion to adopt a local position that may differ from that of the Association.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Lunch and Learn: How to Develop Legislative Priorities</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Virginia School Boards Association invites you to register and attend a Lunch &amp; Learn webinar designed to assist local school boards in developing legislative priorities for the school division. VSBA Government Relations Specialist, J.T. Kessler, will provide participants with strategies to consider as school boards think about short- and long-term goals around legislative advocacy.\r\n\r\nThe webinar will take place on Tuesday May 24, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. <strong>You must register in advance for this meeting by clicking on the following link:</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe</a>\r\n\r\nAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\r\n\r\nIf you have any questions about this webinar or the information found in the reconvene report, please contact J.T. Kessler at 434-295-8722 ext. 116 or <a href="mailto:jason@vsba.org">jason@vsba.org</a>.', 'Virginia General Assembly: Reconvene Session 2022', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10696-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-13 10:17:02', '2022-05-13 14:17:02', '', 10696, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10738', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10739, 5, '2022-05-13 10:17:40', '2022-05-13 14:17:40', '[caption id="attachment_273" align="alignleft" width="300"]<img class="wp-image-273 size-medium" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/KESSLER_JT3969-300x240.jpg" alt="JT Kessler, Government Relations Specialist" width="300" height="240"> JT Kessler VSBA Government Relations Specialist[/caption]\r\n\r\nOn Wednesday April 29, 2022, the Virginia General Assembly met for the 2022 Reconvene Session. This yearly occasion consists of members of the Senate of Virginia and Virginia House of Delegates convening to consider legislative vetoes and recommendations by the Governor to legislation passed in the regular session of the General Assembly. In the 2022 Reconvene Session, there were ten pieces of legislation of interest to K-12 public education that received action by the Governor following adjournment of the 2022 general assembly session on March 12<sup>th</sup>.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb36"><strong>SB 36</strong></a><strong> (Norment)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB4"><strong>HB 4</strong></a><strong> (Wyatt)</strong> Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense. The bill provides, as an exception to the requirement to report any written threats against school personnel while on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, that a principal is not required but may report to the local law-enforcement agency any such incident committed by a student who has an individualized education plan.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB36AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s recommendation on line 36 by a vote of 21-19. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 57-43. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Senate concurred with the Governor’s recommendation on line 52 through line 53 by a vote of 40-0. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 88-12. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was agreed to as it received a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB62"><strong>SB 62</strong></a><strong> (Favola)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb215"><strong>HB 215</strong></a><strong> (Robinson) </strong>Establishes the School Health Services Committee in the legislative branch to review and provide advice to the General Assembly and other policy makers regarding proposals that require local school boards to offer certain health services in a school setting. The bill requires the Committee to submit its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor by October 1 of each year. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2025.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB62AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb78"><strong>SB 78</strong></a><strong> (Norment)</strong> Requires the Board of Education to include an additional minimum 90-minute parent/student driver education component as part of the classroom portion of its driver education program for all public school divisions and provides that participation in such component shall be encouraged but shall not be required. Under current law, participation in such parent/student driver education component is required in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) and optional in all other school divisions. The bill also requires such parent/student driver education component to emphasize the dangers of distracted driving.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB78AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb307"><strong>HB 307</strong></a><strong> (Freitas) </strong>Provides that a public body subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act shall make all reasonable efforts to supply records requested by a citizen at the lowest possible cost. The bill also requires a public body, prior to conducting a search for records, to notify the requester in writing of the public body''s right to make reasonable charges not to exceed its actual cost incurred in accessing, duplicating, supplying, or searching for requested records and inquire of the requester whether he would like to request a cost estimate in advance of the supplying of the requested records.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB307AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb585"><strong>HB 585</strong></a><strong> (Van Valkenburg)</strong> Requires, except for those middle and high school students with significant cognitive disabilities who participate in an alternate assessment, each student in middle and high school to take only those end-of-course Standards of Learning assessments necessary to meet federal accountability requirements and Virginia high school graduation requirements.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB585AG">Governor Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB585H3">Substitute HB 585</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb873"><strong>HB 873</strong></a><strong> (Greenhalgh)</strong> Requires, in the case of any public elementary or secondary school in which a school resource officer is employed, the threat assessment team for such school to include at least one such school resource officer. The bill requires the chief local law-enforcement officer for any local school division in which a public elementary or secondary school does not employ a school resource officer to designate a law-enforcement officer to receive, either in-person or online, the school safety training for public school personnel conducted by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety in accordance with relevant law and requires such officer to serve as the law-enforcement liaison for the school administrator in such a school who has also received such training as prescribed by relevant law.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB873AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb879"><strong>HB 879</strong></a><strong> (Rasoul)</strong> Requires the nine-member Board of Education, all of whom are appointed by the Governor, to include at least one member with experience or expertise in local government leadership or policymaking, at least one member with experience or expertise in career and technical education, and at least one member with experience or expertise in early childhood education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB879AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB879H1">Substitute HB 879</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1026"><strong>HB 1026</strong></a><strong> (Guzman)</strong> Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (the Council), including at least one of each of the following: teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization who is the parent of a school-age child, school administrator, student, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1026AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1026H1">Substitute HB 1026</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1138"><strong>HB 1138</strong></a><strong> (Reid)</strong> Requires the lot drawing required to be conducted by the Loudoun County Electoral Board to determine the members of four of nine districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for four-year terms and the members of the remaining five districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for two-year terms to ensure the staggering of member terms for such school board to be conducted at the electoral board''s first meeting of 2023 but no later than January 31, 2023.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1138AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1138H1">Substitute HB 1138</a>)\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 22-18. The House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 51-48. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188"><strong>HB 1188</strong></a><strong> (Davis)</strong> Establishes the Student Advisory Board for the purpose of providing student perspectives on matters before the Board of Education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\nDuring each session of the Virginia General Assembly, the VSBA Executive Director and lobbyists are in daily contact discussing legislation and the VSBA policies that drive the association’s lobbying efforts, which include the decision to send action alerts to the membership. The lobbying efforts of the association are based on positions contained in the VSBA Legislative Positions Handbook that is approved each year by the VSBA Delegate Assembly. No school board in Virginia is bound by any position of the Association or obligated to any call to actions. School boards in Virginia have the discretion to adopt a local position that may differ from that of the Association.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Lunch and Learn: How to Develop Legislative Priorities</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Virginia School Boards Association invites you to register and attend a Lunch &amp; Learn webinar designed to assist local school boards in developing legislative priorities for the school division. VSBA Government Relations Specialist, J.T. Kessler, will provide participants with strategies to consider as school boards think about short- and long-term goals around legislative advocacy.\r\n\r\nThe webinar will take place on Tuesday May 24, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. <strong>You must register in advance for this meeting by clicking on the following link:</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe</a>\r\n\r\nAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\r\n\r\nIf you have any questions about this webinar or the information found in the reconvene report, please contact J.T. Kessler at 434-295-8722 ext. 116 or <a href="mailto:jason@vsba.org">jason@vsba.org</a>.', 'Virginia General Assembly: Reconvene Session 2022', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10696-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-13 10:17:40', '2022-05-13 14:17:40', '', 10696, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10739', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10740, 5, '2022-05-13 10:17:58', '2022-05-13 14:17:58', '[caption id="attachment_273" align="alignleft" width="300"]<img class="wp-image-273 size-medium" src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/KESSLER_JT3969-300x240.jpg" alt="JT Kessler, Government Relations Specialist" width="300" height="240"> JT Kessler, VSBA Government Relations Specialist[/caption]\r\n\r\nOn Wednesday April 29, 2022, the Virginia General Assembly met for the 2022 Reconvene Session. This yearly occasion consists of members of the Senate of Virginia and Virginia House of Delegates convening to consider legislative vetoes and recommendations by the Governor to legislation passed in the regular session of the General Assembly. In the 2022 Reconvene Session, there were ten pieces of legislation of interest to K-12 public education that received action by the Governor following adjournment of the 2022 general assembly session on March 12<sup>th</sup>.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb36"><strong>SB 36</strong></a><strong> (Norment)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB4"><strong>HB 4</strong></a><strong> (Wyatt)</strong> Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense. The bill provides, as an exception to the requirement to report any written threats against school personnel while on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, that a principal is not required but may report to the local law-enforcement agency any such incident committed by a student who has an individualized education plan.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB36AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s recommendation on line 36 by a vote of 21-19. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 57-43. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Senate concurred with the Governor’s recommendation on line 52 through line 53 by a vote of 40-0. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 88-12. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was agreed to as it received a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB62"><strong>SB 62</strong></a><strong> (Favola)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb215"><strong>HB 215</strong></a><strong> (Robinson) </strong>Establishes the School Health Services Committee in the legislative branch to review and provide advice to the General Assembly and other policy makers regarding proposals that require local school boards to offer certain health services in a school setting. The bill requires the Committee to submit its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor by October 1 of each year. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2025.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB62AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb78"><strong>SB 78</strong></a><strong> (Norment)</strong> Requires the Board of Education to include an additional minimum 90-minute parent/student driver education component as part of the classroom portion of its driver education program for all public school divisions and provides that participation in such component shall be encouraged but shall not be required. Under current law, participation in such parent/student driver education component is required in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) and optional in all other school divisions. The bill also requires such parent/student driver education component to emphasize the dangers of distracted driving.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB78AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb307"><strong>HB 307</strong></a><strong> (Freitas) </strong>Provides that a public body subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act shall make all reasonable efforts to supply records requested by a citizen at the lowest possible cost. The bill also requires a public body, prior to conducting a search for records, to notify the requester in writing of the public body''s right to make reasonable charges not to exceed its actual cost incurred in accessing, duplicating, supplying, or searching for requested records and inquire of the requester whether he would like to request a cost estimate in advance of the supplying of the requested records.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB307AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb585"><strong>HB 585</strong></a><strong> (Van Valkenburg)</strong> Requires, except for those middle and high school students with significant cognitive disabilities who participate in an alternate assessment, each student in middle and high school to take only those end-of-course Standards of Learning assessments necessary to meet federal accountability requirements and Virginia high school graduation requirements.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB585AG">Governor Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB585H3">Substitute HB 585</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb873"><strong>HB 873</strong></a><strong> (Greenhalgh)</strong> Requires, in the case of any public elementary or secondary school in which a school resource officer is employed, the threat assessment team for such school to include at least one such school resource officer. The bill requires the chief local law-enforcement officer for any local school division in which a public elementary or secondary school does not employ a school resource officer to designate a law-enforcement officer to receive, either in-person or online, the school safety training for public school personnel conducted by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety in accordance with relevant law and requires such officer to serve as the law-enforcement liaison for the school administrator in such a school who has also received such training as prescribed by relevant law.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB873AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb879"><strong>HB 879</strong></a><strong> (Rasoul)</strong> Requires the nine-member Board of Education, all of whom are appointed by the Governor, to include at least one member with experience or expertise in local government leadership or policymaking, at least one member with experience or expertise in career and technical education, and at least one member with experience or expertise in early childhood education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB879AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB879H1">Substitute HB 879</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1026"><strong>HB 1026</strong></a><strong> (Guzman)</strong> Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (the Council), including at least one of each of the following: teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization who is the parent of a school-age child, school administrator, student, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1026AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1026H1">Substitute HB 1026</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1138"><strong>HB 1138</strong></a><strong> (Reid)</strong> Requires the lot drawing required to be conducted by the Loudoun County Electoral Board to determine the members of four of nine districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for four-year terms and the members of the remaining five districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for two-year terms to ensure the staggering of member terms for such school board to be conducted at the electoral board''s first meeting of 2023 but no later than January 31, 2023.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1138AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1138H1">Substitute HB 1138</a>)\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 22-18. The House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 51-48. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188"><strong>HB 1188</strong></a><strong> (Davis)</strong> Establishes the Student Advisory Board for the purpose of providing student perspectives on matters before the Board of Education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\nDuring each session of the Virginia General Assembly, the VSBA Executive Director and lobbyists are in daily contact discussing legislation and the VSBA policies that drive the association’s lobbying efforts, which include the decision to send action alerts to the membership. The lobbying efforts of the association are based on positions contained in the VSBA Legislative Positions Handbook that is approved each year by the VSBA Delegate Assembly. No school board in Virginia is bound by any position of the Association or obligated to any call to actions. School boards in Virginia have the discretion to adopt a local position that may differ from that of the Association.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Lunch and Learn: How to Develop Legislative Priorities</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Virginia School Boards Association invites you to register and attend a Lunch &amp; Learn webinar designed to assist local school boards in developing legislative priorities for the school division. VSBA Government Relations Specialist, J.T. Kessler, will provide participants with strategies to consider as school boards think about short- and long-term goals around legislative advocacy.\r\n\r\nThe webinar will take place on Tuesday May 24, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. <strong>You must register in advance for this meeting by clicking on the following link:</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe</a>\r\n\r\nAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\r\n\r\nIf you have any questions about this webinar or the information found in the reconvene report, please contact J.T. Kessler at 434-295-8722 ext. 116 or <a href="mailto:jason@vsba.org">jason@vsba.org</a>.', 'Virginia General Assembly: Reconvene Session 2022', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10696-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-13 10:17:58', '2022-05-13 14:17:58', '', 10696, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10740', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10741, 5, '2022-05-13 10:18:57', '2022-05-13 14:18:57', '[caption id="attachment_273" align="alignleft" width="268"]<img class="wp-image-273 " src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/KESSLER_JT3969-300x240.jpg" alt="JT Kessler, Government Relations Specialist" width="268" height="214"> JT Kessler, VSBA Government Relations Specialist[/caption]\r\n\r\nOn Wednesday April 29, 2022, the Virginia General Assembly met for the 2022 Reconvene Session. This yearly occasion consists of members of the Senate of Virginia and Virginia House of Delegates convening to consider legislative vetoes and recommendations by the Governor to legislation passed in the regular session of the General Assembly. In the 2022 Reconvene Session, there were ten pieces of legislation of interest to K-12 public education that received action by the Governor following adjournment of the 2022 general assembly session on March 12<sup>th</sup>.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb36"><strong>SB 36</strong></a><strong> (Norment)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB4"><strong>HB 4</strong></a><strong> (Wyatt)</strong> Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense. The bill provides, as an exception to the requirement to report any written threats against school personnel while on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, that a principal is not required but may report to the local law-enforcement agency any such incident committed by a student who has an individualized education plan.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB36AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s recommendation on line 36 by a vote of 21-19. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 57-43. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Senate concurred with the Governor’s recommendation on line 52 through line 53 by a vote of 40-0. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 88-12. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was agreed to as it received a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB62"><strong>SB 62</strong></a><strong> (Favola)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb215"><strong>HB 215</strong></a><strong> (Robinson) </strong>Establishes the School Health Services Committee in the legislative branch to review and provide advice to the General Assembly and other policy makers regarding proposals that require local school boards to offer certain health services in a school setting. The bill requires the Committee to submit its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor by October 1 of each year. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2025.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB62AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb78"><strong>SB 78</strong></a><strong> (Norment)</strong> Requires the Board of Education to include an additional minimum 90-minute parent/student driver education component as part of the classroom portion of its driver education program for all public school divisions and provides that participation in such component shall be encouraged but shall not be required. Under current law, participation in such parent/student driver education component is required in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) and optional in all other school divisions. The bill also requires such parent/student driver education component to emphasize the dangers of distracted driving.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB78AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb307"><strong>HB 307</strong></a><strong> (Freitas) </strong>Provides that a public body subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act shall make all reasonable efforts to supply records requested by a citizen at the lowest possible cost. The bill also requires a public body, prior to conducting a search for records, to notify the requester in writing of the public body''s right to make reasonable charges not to exceed its actual cost incurred in accessing, duplicating, supplying, or searching for requested records and inquire of the requester whether he would like to request a cost estimate in advance of the supplying of the requested records.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB307AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb585"><strong>HB 585</strong></a><strong> (Van Valkenburg)</strong> Requires, except for those middle and high school students with significant cognitive disabilities who participate in an alternate assessment, each student in middle and high school to take only those end-of-course Standards of Learning assessments necessary to meet federal accountability requirements and Virginia high school graduation requirements.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB585AG">Governor Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB585H3">Substitute HB 585</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb873"><strong>HB 873</strong></a><strong> (Greenhalgh)</strong> Requires, in the case of any public elementary or secondary school in which a school resource officer is employed, the threat assessment team for such school to include at least one such school resource officer. The bill requires the chief local law-enforcement officer for any local school division in which a public elementary or secondary school does not employ a school resource officer to designate a law-enforcement officer to receive, either in-person or online, the school safety training for public school personnel conducted by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety in accordance with relevant law and requires such officer to serve as the law-enforcement liaison for the school administrator in such a school who has also received such training as prescribed by relevant law.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB873AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb879"><strong>HB 879</strong></a><strong> (Rasoul)</strong> Requires the nine-member Board of Education, all of whom are appointed by the Governor, to include at least one member with experience or expertise in local government leadership or policymaking, at least one member with experience or expertise in career and technical education, and at least one member with experience or expertise in early childhood education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB879AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB879H1">Substitute HB 879</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1026"><strong>HB 1026</strong></a><strong> (Guzman)</strong> Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (the Council), including at least one of each of the following: teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization who is the parent of a school-age child, school administrator, student, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1026AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1026H1">Substitute HB 1026</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1138"><strong>HB 1138</strong></a><strong> (Reid)</strong> Requires the lot drawing required to be conducted by the Loudoun County Electoral Board to determine the members of four of nine districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for four-year terms and the members of the remaining five districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for two-year terms to ensure the staggering of member terms for such school board to be conducted at the electoral board''s first meeting of 2023 but no later than January 31, 2023.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1138AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1138H1">Substitute HB 1138</a>)\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 22-18. The House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 51-48. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188"><strong>HB 1188</strong></a><strong> (Davis)</strong> Establishes the Student Advisory Board for the purpose of providing student perspectives on matters before the Board of Education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\nDuring each session of the Virginia General Assembly, the VSBA Executive Director and lobbyists are in daily contact discussing legislation and the VSBA policies that drive the association’s lobbying efforts, which include the decision to send action alerts to the membership. The lobbying efforts of the association are based on positions contained in the VSBA Legislative Positions Handbook that is approved each year by the VSBA Delegate Assembly. No school board in Virginia is bound by any position of the Association or obligated to any call to actions. School boards in Virginia have the discretion to adopt a local position that may differ from that of the Association.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Lunch and Learn: How to Develop Legislative Priorities</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Virginia School Boards Association invites you to register and attend a Lunch &amp; Learn webinar designed to assist local school boards in developing legislative priorities for the school division. VSBA Government Relations Specialist, J.T. Kessler, will provide participants with strategies to consider as school boards think about short- and long-term goals around legislative advocacy.\r\n\r\nThe webinar will take place on Tuesday May 24, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. <strong>You must register in advance for this meeting by clicking on the following link:</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe</a>\r\n\r\nAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\r\n\r\nIf you have any questions about this webinar or the information found in the reconvene report, please contact J.T. Kessler at 434-295-8722 ext. 116 or <a href="mailto:jason@vsba.org">jason@vsba.org</a>.', 'Virginia General Assembly: Reconvene Session 2022', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10696-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-13 10:18:57', '2022-05-13 14:18:57', '', 10696, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10741', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(10743, 5, '2022-05-13 10:19:18', '2022-05-13 14:19:18', '[caption id="attachment_273" align="alignleft" width="235"]<img class="wp-image-273 " src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/KESSLER_JT3969-300x240.jpg" alt="JT Kessler, Government Relations Specialist" width="235" height="188"> JT Kessler, VSBA Government Relations Specialist[/caption]\r\n\r\nOn Wednesday April 29, 2022, the Virginia General Assembly met for the 2022 Reconvene Session. This yearly occasion consists of members of the Senate of Virginia and Virginia House of Delegates convening to consider legislative vetoes and recommendations by the Governor to legislation passed in the regular session of the General Assembly. In the 2022 Reconvene Session, there were ten pieces of legislation of interest to K-12 public education that received action by the Governor following adjournment of the 2022 general assembly session on March 12<sup>th</sup>.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb36"><strong>SB 36</strong></a><strong> (Norment)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB4"><strong>HB 4</strong></a><strong> (Wyatt)</strong> Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense. The bill provides, as an exception to the requirement to report any written threats against school personnel while on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, that a principal is not required but may report to the local law-enforcement agency any such incident committed by a student who has an individualized education plan.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB36AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s recommendation on line 36 by a vote of 21-19. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 57-43. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Senate concurred with the Governor’s recommendation on line 52 through line 53 by a vote of 40-0. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 88-12. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was agreed to as it received a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB62"><strong>SB 62</strong></a><strong> (Favola)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb215"><strong>HB 215</strong></a><strong> (Robinson) </strong>Establishes the School Health Services Committee in the legislative branch to review and provide advice to the General Assembly and other policy makers regarding proposals that require local school boards to offer certain health services in a school setting. The bill requires the Committee to submit its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor by October 1 of each year. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2025.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB62AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb78"><strong>SB 78</strong></a><strong> (Norment)</strong> Requires the Board of Education to include an additional minimum 90-minute parent/student driver education component as part of the classroom portion of its driver education program for all public school divisions and provides that participation in such component shall be encouraged but shall not be required. Under current law, participation in such parent/student driver education component is required in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) and optional in all other school divisions. The bill also requires such parent/student driver education component to emphasize the dangers of distracted driving.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB78AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb307"><strong>HB 307</strong></a><strong> (Freitas) </strong>Provides that a public body subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act shall make all reasonable efforts to supply records requested by a citizen at the lowest possible cost. The bill also requires a public body, prior to conducting a search for records, to notify the requester in writing of the public body''s right to make reasonable charges not to exceed its actual cost incurred in accessing, duplicating, supplying, or searching for requested records and inquire of the requester whether he would like to request a cost estimate in advance of the supplying of the requested records.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB307AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb585"><strong>HB 585</strong></a><strong> (Van Valkenburg)</strong> Requires, except for those middle and high school students with significant cognitive disabilities who participate in an alternate assessment, each student in middle and high school to take only those end-of-course Standards of Learning assessments necessary to meet federal accountability requirements and Virginia high school graduation requirements.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB585AG">Governor Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB585H3">Substitute HB 585</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb873"><strong>HB 873</strong></a><strong> (Greenhalgh)</strong> Requires, in the case of any public elementary or secondary school in which a school resource officer is employed, the threat assessment team for such school to include at least one such school resource officer. The bill requires the chief local law-enforcement officer for any local school division in which a public elementary or secondary school does not employ a school resource officer to designate a law-enforcement officer to receive, either in-person or online, the school safety training for public school personnel conducted by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety in accordance with relevant law and requires such officer to serve as the law-enforcement liaison for the school administrator in such a school who has also received such training as prescribed by relevant law.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB873AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb879"><strong>HB 879</strong></a><strong> (Rasoul)</strong> Requires the nine-member Board of Education, all of whom are appointed by the Governor, to include at least one member with experience or expertise in local government leadership or policymaking, at least one member with experience or expertise in career and technical education, and at least one member with experience or expertise in early childhood education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB879AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB879H1">Substitute HB 879</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1026"><strong>HB 1026</strong></a><strong> (Guzman)</strong> Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (the Council), including at least one of each of the following: teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization who is the parent of a school-age child, school administrator, student, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1026AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1026H1">Substitute HB 1026</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1138"><strong>HB 1138</strong></a><strong> (Reid)</strong> Requires the lot drawing required to be conducted by the Loudoun County Electoral Board to determine the members of four of nine districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for four-year terms and the members of the remaining five districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for two-year terms to ensure the staggering of member terms for such school board to be conducted at the electoral board''s first meeting of 2023 but no later than January 31, 2023.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1138AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1138H1">Substitute HB 1138</a>)\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 22-18. The House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 51-48. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188"><strong>HB 1188</strong></a><strong> (Davis)</strong> Establishes the Student Advisory Board for the purpose of providing student perspectives on matters before the Board of Education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\nDuring each session of the Virginia General Assembly, the VSBA Executive Director and lobbyists are in daily contact discussing legislation and the VSBA policies that drive the association’s lobbying efforts, which include the decision to send action alerts to the membership. The lobbying efforts of the association are based on positions contained in the VSBA Legislative Positions Handbook that is approved each year by the VSBA Delegate Assembly. No school board in Virginia is bound by any position of the Association or obligated to any call to actions. School boards in Virginia have the discretion to adopt a local position that may differ from that of the Association.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Lunch and Learn: How to Develop Legislative Priorities</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Virginia School Boards Association invites you to register and attend a Lunch &amp; Learn webinar designed to assist local school boards in developing legislative priorities for the school division. VSBA Government Relations Specialist, J.T. Kessler, will provide participants with strategies to consider as school boards think about short- and long-term goals around legislative advocacy.\r\n\r\nThe webinar will take place on Tuesday May 24, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. <strong>You must register in advance for this meeting by clicking on the following link:</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe</a>\r\n\r\nAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\r\n\r\nIf you have any questions about this webinar or the information found in the reconvene report, please contact J.T. Kessler at 434-295-8722 ext. 116 or <a href="mailto:jason@vsba.org">jason@vsba.org</a>.', 'Virginia General Assembly: Reconvene Session 2022', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10696-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-13 10:19:18', '2022-05-13 14:19:18', '', 10696, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10743', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10744, 5, '2022-05-13 10:19:32', '2022-05-13 14:19:32', '[caption id="attachment_273" align="alignleft" width="300"]<img class="wp-image-273 " src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/KESSLER_JT3969-300x240.jpg" alt="JT Kessler, Government Relations Specialist" width="300" height="240"> JT Kessler, VSBA Government Relations Specialist[/caption]\r\n\r\nOn Wednesday April 29, 2022, the Virginia General Assembly met for the 2022 Reconvene Session. This yearly occasion consists of members of the Senate of Virginia and Virginia House of Delegates convening to consider legislative vetoes and recommendations by the Governor to legislation passed in the regular session of the General Assembly. In the 2022 Reconvene Session, there were ten pieces of legislation of interest to K-12 public education that received action by the Governor following adjournment of the 2022 general assembly session on March 12<sup>th</sup>.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb36"><strong>SB 36</strong></a><strong> (Norment)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB4"><strong>HB 4</strong></a><strong> (Wyatt)</strong> Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense. The bill provides, as an exception to the requirement to report any written threats against school personnel while on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, that a principal is not required but may report to the local law-enforcement agency any such incident committed by a student who has an individualized education plan.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB36AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s recommendation on line 36 by a vote of 21-19. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 57-43. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Senate concurred with the Governor’s recommendation on line 52 through line 53 by a vote of 40-0. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 88-12. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was agreed to as it received a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB62"><strong>SB 62</strong></a><strong> (Favola)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb215"><strong>HB 215</strong></a><strong> (Robinson) </strong>Establishes the School Health Services Committee in the legislative branch to review and provide advice to the General Assembly and other policy makers regarding proposals that require local school boards to offer certain health services in a school setting. The bill requires the Committee to submit its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor by October 1 of each year. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2025.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB62AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb78"><strong>SB 78</strong></a><strong> (Norment)</strong> Requires the Board of Education to include an additional minimum 90-minute parent/student driver education component as part of the classroom portion of its driver education program for all public school divisions and provides that participation in such component shall be encouraged but shall not be required. Under current law, participation in such parent/student driver education component is required in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) and optional in all other school divisions. The bill also requires such parent/student driver education component to emphasize the dangers of distracted driving.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB78AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb307"><strong>HB 307</strong></a><strong> (Freitas) </strong>Provides that a public body subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act shall make all reasonable efforts to supply records requested by a citizen at the lowest possible cost. The bill also requires a public body, prior to conducting a search for records, to notify the requester in writing of the public body''s right to make reasonable charges not to exceed its actual cost incurred in accessing, duplicating, supplying, or searching for requested records and inquire of the requester whether he would like to request a cost estimate in advance of the supplying of the requested records.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB307AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb585"><strong>HB 585</strong></a><strong> (Van Valkenburg)</strong> Requires, except for those middle and high school students with significant cognitive disabilities who participate in an alternate assessment, each student in middle and high school to take only those end-of-course Standards of Learning assessments necessary to meet federal accountability requirements and Virginia high school graduation requirements.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB585AG">Governor Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB585H3">Substitute HB 585</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb873"><strong>HB 873</strong></a><strong> (Greenhalgh)</strong> Requires, in the case of any public elementary or secondary school in which a school resource officer is employed, the threat assessment team for such school to include at least one such school resource officer. The bill requires the chief local law-enforcement officer for any local school division in which a public elementary or secondary school does not employ a school resource officer to designate a law-enforcement officer to receive, either in-person or online, the school safety training for public school personnel conducted by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety in accordance with relevant law and requires such officer to serve as the law-enforcement liaison for the school administrator in such a school who has also received such training as prescribed by relevant law.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB873AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb879"><strong>HB 879</strong></a><strong> (Rasoul)</strong> Requires the nine-member Board of Education, all of whom are appointed by the Governor, to include at least one member with experience or expertise in local government leadership or policymaking, at least one member with experience or expertise in career and technical education, and at least one member with experience or expertise in early childhood education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB879AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB879H1">Substitute HB 879</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1026"><strong>HB 1026</strong></a><strong> (Guzman)</strong> Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (the Council), including at least one of each of the following: teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization who is the parent of a school-age child, school administrator, student, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1026AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1026H1">Substitute HB 1026</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1138"><strong>HB 1138</strong></a><strong> (Reid)</strong> Requires the lot drawing required to be conducted by the Loudoun County Electoral Board to determine the members of four of nine districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for four-year terms and the members of the remaining five districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for two-year terms to ensure the staggering of member terms for such school board to be conducted at the electoral board''s first meeting of 2023 but no later than January 31, 2023.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1138AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1138H1">Substitute HB 1138</a>)\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 22-18. The House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 51-48. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188"><strong>HB 1188</strong></a><strong> (Davis)</strong> Establishes the Student Advisory Board for the purpose of providing student perspectives on matters before the Board of Education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\nDuring each session of the Virginia General Assembly, the VSBA Executive Director and lobbyists are in daily contact discussing legislation and the VSBA policies that drive the association’s lobbying efforts, which include the decision to send action alerts to the membership. The lobbying efforts of the association are based on positions contained in the VSBA Legislative Positions Handbook that is approved each year by the VSBA Delegate Assembly. No school board in Virginia is bound by any position of the Association or obligated to any call to actions. School boards in Virginia have the discretion to adopt a local position that may differ from that of the Association.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Lunch and Learn: How to Develop Legislative Priorities</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Virginia School Boards Association invites you to register and attend a Lunch &amp; Learn webinar designed to assist local school boards in developing legislative priorities for the school division. VSBA Government Relations Specialist, J.T. Kessler, will provide participants with strategies to consider as school boards think about short- and long-term goals around legislative advocacy.\r\n\r\nThe webinar will take place on Tuesday May 24, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. <strong>You must register in advance for this meeting by clicking on the following link:</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe</a>\r\n\r\nAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\r\n\r\nIf you have any questions about this webinar or the information found in the reconvene report, please contact J.T. Kessler at 434-295-8722 ext. 116 or <a href="mailto:jason@vsba.org">jason@vsba.org</a>.', 'Virginia General Assembly: Reconvene Session 2022', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10696-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-13 10:19:32', '2022-05-13 14:19:32', '', 10696, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10744', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10745, 5, '2022-05-13 10:20:25', '2022-05-13 14:20:25', '[caption id="attachment_273" align="alignleft" width="300"]<img class="wp-image-273 " src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/KESSLER_JT3969-300x240.jpg" alt="JT Kessler, Government Relations Specialist" width="300" height="240"> JT Kessler, VSBA Government Relations Specialist[/caption]\r\n<h2><span style="color: #e11a3b;"><strong>Virginia General Assembly: Reconvene Session 2022</strong></span></h2>\r\nOn Wednesday April 29, 2022, the Virginia General Assembly met for the 2022 Reconvene Session. This yearly occasion consists of members of the Senate of Virginia and Virginia House of Delegates convening to consider legislative vetoes and recommendations by the Governor to legislation passed in the regular session of the General Assembly. In the 2022 Reconvene Session, there were ten pieces of legislation of interest to K-12 public education that received action by the Governor following adjournment of the 2022 general assembly session on March 12<sup>th</sup>.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb36"><strong>SB 36</strong></a><strong> (Norment)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB4"><strong>HB 4</strong></a><strong> (Wyatt)</strong> Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense. The bill provides, as an exception to the requirement to report any written threats against school personnel while on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, that a principal is not required but may report to the local law-enforcement agency any such incident committed by a student who has an individualized education plan.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB36AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s recommendation on line 36 by a vote of 21-19. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 57-43. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Senate concurred with the Governor’s recommendation on line 52 through line 53 by a vote of 40-0. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 88-12. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was agreed to as it received a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB62"><strong>SB 62</strong></a><strong> (Favola)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb215"><strong>HB 215</strong></a><strong> (Robinson) </strong>Establishes the School Health Services Committee in the legislative branch to review and provide advice to the General Assembly and other policy makers regarding proposals that require local school boards to offer certain health services in a school setting. The bill requires the Committee to submit its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor by October 1 of each year. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2025.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB62AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb78"><strong>SB 78</strong></a><strong> (Norment)</strong> Requires the Board of Education to include an additional minimum 90-minute parent/student driver education component as part of the classroom portion of its driver education program for all public school divisions and provides that participation in such component shall be encouraged but shall not be required. Under current law, participation in such parent/student driver education component is required in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) and optional in all other school divisions. The bill also requires such parent/student driver education component to emphasize the dangers of distracted driving.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB78AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb307"><strong>HB 307</strong></a><strong> (Freitas) </strong>Provides that a public body subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act shall make all reasonable efforts to supply records requested by a citizen at the lowest possible cost. The bill also requires a public body, prior to conducting a search for records, to notify the requester in writing of the public body''s right to make reasonable charges not to exceed its actual cost incurred in accessing, duplicating, supplying, or searching for requested records and inquire of the requester whether he would like to request a cost estimate in advance of the supplying of the requested records.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB307AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb585"><strong>HB 585</strong></a><strong> (Van Valkenburg)</strong> Requires, except for those middle and high school students with significant cognitive disabilities who participate in an alternate assessment, each student in middle and high school to take only those end-of-course Standards of Learning assessments necessary to meet federal accountability requirements and Virginia high school graduation requirements.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB585AG">Governor Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB585H3">Substitute HB 585</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb873"><strong>HB 873</strong></a><strong> (Greenhalgh)</strong> Requires, in the case of any public elementary or secondary school in which a school resource officer is employed, the threat assessment team for such school to include at least one such school resource officer. The bill requires the chief local law-enforcement officer for any local school division in which a public elementary or secondary school does not employ a school resource officer to designate a law-enforcement officer to receive, either in-person or online, the school safety training for public school personnel conducted by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety in accordance with relevant law and requires such officer to serve as the law-enforcement liaison for the school administrator in such a school who has also received such training as prescribed by relevant law.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB873AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb879"><strong>HB 879</strong></a><strong> (Rasoul)</strong> Requires the nine-member Board of Education, all of whom are appointed by the Governor, to include at least one member with experience or expertise in local government leadership or policymaking, at least one member with experience or expertise in career and technical education, and at least one member with experience or expertise in early childhood education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB879AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB879H1">Substitute HB 879</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1026"><strong>HB 1026</strong></a><strong> (Guzman)</strong> Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (the Council), including at least one of each of the following: teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization who is the parent of a school-age child, school administrator, student, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1026AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1026H1">Substitute HB 1026</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1138"><strong>HB 1138</strong></a><strong> (Reid)</strong> Requires the lot drawing required to be conducted by the Loudoun County Electoral Board to determine the members of four of nine districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for four-year terms and the members of the remaining five districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for two-year terms to ensure the staggering of member terms for such school board to be conducted at the electoral board''s first meeting of 2023 but no later than January 31, 2023.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1138AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1138H1">Substitute HB 1138</a>)\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 22-18. The House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 51-48. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188"><strong>HB 1188</strong></a><strong> (Davis)</strong> Establishes the Student Advisory Board for the purpose of providing student perspectives on matters before the Board of Education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\nDuring each session of the Virginia General Assembly, the VSBA Executive Director and lobbyists are in daily contact discussing legislation and the VSBA policies that drive the association’s lobbying efforts, which include the decision to send action alerts to the membership. The lobbying efforts of the association are based on positions contained in the VSBA Legislative Positions Handbook that is approved each year by the VSBA Delegate Assembly. No school board in Virginia is bound by any position of the Association or obligated to any call to actions. School boards in Virginia have the discretion to adopt a local position that may differ from that of the Association.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Lunch and Learn: How to Develop Legislative Priorities</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Virginia School Boards Association invites you to register and attend a Lunch &amp; Learn webinar designed to assist local school boards in developing legislative priorities for the school division. VSBA Government Relations Specialist, J.T. Kessler, will provide participants with strategies to consider as school boards think about short- and long-term goals around legislative advocacy.\r\n\r\nThe webinar will take place on Tuesday May 24, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. <strong>You must register in advance for this meeting by clicking on the following link:</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe</a>\r\n\r\nAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\r\n\r\nIf you have any questions about this webinar or the information found in the reconvene report, please contact J.T. Kessler at 434-295-8722 ext. 116 or <a href="mailto:jason@vsba.org">jason@vsba.org</a>.', 'Virginia General Assembly: Reconvene Session 2022', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10696-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-13 10:20:25', '2022-05-13 14:20:25', '', 10696, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10745', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(10746, 5, '2022-05-13 10:20:36', '2022-05-13 14:20:36', '[caption id="attachment_273" align="alignleft" width="300"]<img class="wp-image-273 " src="https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/KESSLER_JT3969-300x240.jpg" alt="JT Kessler, Government Relations Specialist" width="300" height="240"> JT Kessler, VSBA Government Relations Specialist[/caption]\r\n<h3><span style="color: #e11a3b;"><strong>Virginia General Assembly: Reconvene Session 2022</strong></span></h3>\r\nOn Wednesday April 29, 2022, the Virginia General Assembly met for the 2022 Reconvene Session. This yearly occasion consists of members of the Senate of Virginia and Virginia House of Delegates convening to consider legislative vetoes and recommendations by the Governor to legislation passed in the regular session of the General Assembly. In the 2022 Reconvene Session, there were ten pieces of legislation of interest to K-12 public education that received action by the Governor following adjournment of the 2022 general assembly session on March 12<sup>th</sup>.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb36"><strong>SB 36</strong></a><strong> (Norment)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB4"><strong>HB 4</strong></a><strong> (Wyatt)</strong> Requires that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense and report to the parents of any minor student who is the specific object of such act that the incident has been reported to law enforcement. Under current law, principals are required to make such reports only for such acts that may constitute a felony offense. The bill provides, as an exception to the requirement to report any written threats against school personnel while on a school bus, on school property, or at a school-sponsored activity, that a principal is not required but may report to the local law-enforcement agency any such incident committed by a student who has an individualized education plan.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB36AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s recommendation on line 36 by a vote of 21-19. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 57-43. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Senate concurred with the Governor’s recommendation on line 52 through line 53 by a vote of 40-0. The House concurred with this recommendation by a vote of 88-12. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was agreed to as it received a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB62"><strong>SB 62</strong></a><strong> (Favola)/ </strong><a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb215"><strong>HB 215</strong></a><strong> (Robinson) </strong>Establishes the School Health Services Committee in the legislative branch to review and provide advice to the General Assembly and other policy makers regarding proposals that require local school boards to offer certain health services in a school setting. The bill requires the Committee to submit its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor by October 1 of each year. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2025.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB62AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=sb78"><strong>SB 78</strong></a><strong> (Norment)</strong> Requires the Board of Education to include an additional minimum 90-minute parent/student driver education component as part of the classroom portion of its driver education program for all public school divisions and provides that participation in such component shall be encouraged but shall not be required. Under current law, participation in such parent/student driver education component is required in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia) and optional in all other school divisions. The bill also requires such parent/student driver education component to emphasize the dangers of distracted driving.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+SB78AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb307"><strong>HB 307</strong></a><strong> (Freitas) </strong>Provides that a public body subject to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act shall make all reasonable efforts to supply records requested by a citizen at the lowest possible cost. The bill also requires a public body, prior to conducting a search for records, to notify the requester in writing of the public body''s right to make reasonable charges not to exceed its actual cost incurred in accessing, duplicating, supplying, or searching for requested records and inquire of the requester whether he would like to request a cost estimate in advance of the supplying of the requested records.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB307AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb585"><strong>HB 585</strong></a><strong> (Van Valkenburg)</strong> Requires, except for those middle and high school students with significant cognitive disabilities who participate in an alternate assessment, each student in middle and high school to take only those end-of-course Standards of Learning assessments necessary to meet federal accountability requirements and Virginia high school graduation requirements.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB585AG">Governor Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB585H3">Substitute HB 585</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb873"><strong>HB 873</strong></a><strong> (Greenhalgh)</strong> Requires, in the case of any public elementary or secondary school in which a school resource officer is employed, the threat assessment team for such school to include at least one such school resource officer. The bill requires the chief local law-enforcement officer for any local school division in which a public elementary or secondary school does not employ a school resource officer to designate a law-enforcement officer to receive, either in-person or online, the school safety training for public school personnel conducted by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety in accordance with relevant law and requires such officer to serve as the law-enforcement liaison for the school administrator in such a school who has also received such training as prescribed by relevant law.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB873AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb879"><strong>HB 879</strong></a><strong> (Rasoul)</strong> Requires the nine-member Board of Education, all of whom are appointed by the Governor, to include at least one member with experience or expertise in local government leadership or policymaking, at least one member with experience or expertise in career and technical education, and at least one member with experience or expertise in early childhood education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB879AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB879H1">Substitute HB 879</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1026"><strong>HB 1026</strong></a><strong> (Guzman)</strong> Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint no more than 12 members to the Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council (the Council), including at least one of each of the following: teacher, librarian, representative of a parent-teacher organization who is the parent of a school-age child, school administrator, student, and individual with expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1026AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1026H1">Substitute HB 1026</a>)\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1138"><strong>HB 1138</strong></a><strong> (Reid)</strong> Requires the lot drawing required to be conducted by the Loudoun County Electoral Board to determine the members of four of nine districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for four-year terms and the members of the remaining five districts who will be elected to the Loudoun County School Board for two-year terms to ensure the staggering of member terms for such school board to be conducted at the electoral board''s first meeting of 2023 but no later than January 31, 2023.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+amd+HB1138AG">Governor’s Recommendation</a> (<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1138H1">Substitute HB 1138</a>)\r\n\r\nThe Senate rejected the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 22-18. The House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation by a vote of 51-48. <strong>The Governor’s Recommendation was not agreed to as it failed to receive a majority vote in each chamber.</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188"><strong>HB 1188</strong></a><strong> (Davis)</strong> Establishes the Student Advisory Board for the purpose of providing student perspectives on matters before the Board of Education.\r\n\r\n<a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=221&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb1188">Governor’s Recommendation</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>The Senate and House concurred with the Governor’s Recommendation.</strong>\r\n\r\nDuring each session of the Virginia General Assembly, the VSBA Executive Director and lobbyists are in daily contact discussing legislation and the VSBA policies that drive the association’s lobbying efforts, which include the decision to send action alerts to the membership. The lobbying efforts of the association are based on positions contained in the VSBA Legislative Positions Handbook that is approved each year by the VSBA Delegate Assembly. No school board in Virginia is bound by any position of the Association or obligated to any call to actions. School boards in Virginia have the discretion to adopt a local position that may differ from that of the Association.\r\n\r\n<strong>New Lunch and Learn: How to Develop Legislative Priorities</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Virginia School Boards Association invites you to register and attend a Lunch &amp; Learn webinar designed to assist local school boards in developing legislative priorities for the school division. VSBA Government Relations Specialist, J.T. Kessler, will provide participants with strategies to consider as school boards think about short- and long-term goals around legislative advocacy.\r\n\r\nThe webinar will take place on Tuesday May 24, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. <strong>You must register in advance for this meeting by clicking on the following link:</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqduihqzgpG9yD2IaKCmobIkooN-FQDjbe</a>\r\n\r\nAfter registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\r\n\r\nIf you have any questions about this webinar or the information found in the reconvene report, please contact J.T. Kessler at 434-295-8722 ext. 116 or <a href="mailto:jason@vsba.org">jason@vsba.org</a>.', 'Virginia General Assembly: Reconvene Session 2022', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '10696-revision-v1', '', '', '2022-05-13 10:20:36', '2022-05-13 14:20:36', '', 10696, 'https://www.vsba.org/?p=10746', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
