HB2244
Standards of Quality; measurement of student educational performance and academic achievement.
Summary
As Introduced. Standards of Quality; standards of accreditation; measurement of student educational performance and academic achievement; calculation of proportionality score required.
Directs the Board of Education (the Board), in consultation with the Department of Education (the Department), to establish and implement standards for determining and recognizing student educational performance and academic achievement in the form of a weighted proportionality score for each school, to account for no less than five percent ... (More) of such school's accreditation rating score or metric under the current school accountability system, for the purpose of identifying, accounting for in determining accreditation ratings, and addressing disparities in access to educational resources across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups in public schools in the Commonwealth. The bill requires the Department to (i) develop a metric for calculating the weighted proportionality score for each school using certain variables calculated by the Department, including (a) a variable based on the percentage of each racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic subgroup in such school as compared to the percentage of each such subgroup in the locality in which such school is located, (b) a variable based on access to certain educational resources associated with student educational performance and academic access for each subgroup identified, and (c) any such other variables deemed necessary by the Department; (ii) develop a metric for calculating the improvement of a school's proportionality score received year over year; (iii) assign for each school based on such school's proportionality score a proportionality designation of 'highly proportional,' 'proportional,' 'somewhat disproportional,' and 'highly disproportional'; and (iv) require any school board that contains within the school division a school assigned a proportionality designation of 'highly disproportional' to develop and submit to the Department a remediation plan detailing the actions such school board will take to reduce disparities in access to education resources. The bill contains provisions providing for the weighted proportionality score to be accounted for in the school accreditation process for each school, including the inclusion of such proportionality scores and associated data in any annual reports and considerations required as a part of the accreditation process. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/07/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101067D
- 01/07/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/24/2025 - House: Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee
- 01/24/2025 - House: Placed on Education Agenda
- 01/28/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2244)
- 01/28/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
- 01/28/2025 - House: Placed on Education Agenda
- 01/29/2025 - House: Reported from Education (12-Y 10-N)
- 01/31/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/04/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (52-Y 47-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/10/2025 - Senate: Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (9-Y 5-N)
- 02/13/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25107254D-S1
- 02/14/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2244)
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: Education and Health Substitute agreed to
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 19-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/20/2025 - House: Senate substitute agreed to by House (51-Y 47-N) Close Floor Vote
- 03/07/2025 - House: Enrolled
- 03/07/2025 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2244ER)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2244)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/10/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/2025 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025
- 03/11/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/24/2025 - House: Governor's Veto Received by House
- 03/24/2025 - Vetoed by Governor
- 04/02/2025 - House: House sustained Governor's veto
