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HB 625STATE · VirginiaIntroduced

Community Schools, Office of; established within Department of Education.

Voted 4/17/2024

Summary

Public education; community schools; Officeof Community Schools at Department of Education; Community SchoolDevelopment and Implementation Planning Grant; Community School CoordinatorProgram; state goal. Requires the Department of Education toestablish the Office of Community Schools as an office within theDepartment for the purpose of supporting the development and growthof community schools throughout the Commonwealth in accordance withthe Virginia Community School Framework and requires the Office toestablish and administer (i) the Community School Development andImplementation Planning Grant for the purpose of providing grantsto school boards that seek to designate any school within the local school division as a community school to assist with the planningand implementation of such designation and (ii) the Community SchoolCoordinator Program for the purpose of providing funding to school boards that previously completed a planning grant and now seek toemploy or hire through contracted services with a qualified nonprofitorganization a community school coordinator to oversee any communityschool designated in the local school division. The bill also establishesa state goal of prioritizing funding for such initiatives and grantprograms to enable their expansion to serve the top 33 percent ofpublic elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth for highestidentified student percentage, as defined in the bill, based on datafrom the immediately preceding school year.

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How representatives voted

310 yea·228 nay·7 other

Docket history

Action history

  1. 4/17/2024Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0815)
  2. 4/17/2024Enacted, Chapter 815 (effective 7/1/24)
  3. 4/17/2024Signed by President as reenrolled
  4. 4/17/2024Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
  5. 4/17/2024Reenrolled bill text (HB625ER2)
  6. 4/17/2024Reenrolled
  7. 4/17/2024Governor's recommendation adopted
  8. 4/17/2024Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
  9. 4/17/2024VOTE: Adoption (63-Y 37-N)
  10. 4/17/2024House concurred in Governor's recommendation (63-Y 37-N)