2025 SESSION
INTRODUCED
25100603D
HOUSE BILL NO. 1599
Offered January 8, 2025
Prefiled January 3, 2025
A BILL to require the Department of Education to eliminate certain end-of-course Standards of Learning assessments and school boards to administer certain local alternative assessments.
PatronCole
Committee Referral Pending
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. 1. The Department of Education shall eliminate the end-of-course Standards of Learning assessments for Chemistry and World History II. The Board of Education shall establish and make available to each local school board guidelines for the administration of a local alternative end-of-course assessment in each such course, and each local school board shall ensure that each student enrolled in either such course completes the relevant local alternative assessment. Nothing in this act shall be construed to alter any high school graduation requirement established in 22.1-253.13:4 of the Code of Virginia or in Board of Education regulations.