Education Bill Roundup

The Virginia General Assembly passed 109 bills related to education in its latest session. Want to talk about the cell phone ban? Required attendance records? Media literacy and digital citizenship in the Standards of Learning? Stopping cyberbullying? School safety? These bills will shape your students' daily lives; most will become law on July 1. Choose one or two, start a discussion, and help students see how the lawmaking process affects them directly.

Here they are by topic (some have multiple topics).

• K-12 (72 bills)
• Higher Ed (23 bills)
• School Safety (10 bills)
• Teacher Licensure/Contracts (9 bills)
• Special Education (7 bills)
• Early Childhood Education (3 bills)
• Student Loans/College Affordability (2 bills)
• Online Learning (2 bills)
• SOLs (2 bills)
• Homeschooling (1 bill)