                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITION OF &#8220;STUDENT WITH LIMITED OR INTERRUPTED FORMAL EDUCATION&#8221;
(§ 22.1-17.02)

A. The Department shall develop and adopt a common statewide definition for the
term &#8220;student with limited or interrupted formal education&#8221; and
shall require local school divisions to report the number of students who fall
under such definition as part of the required data collection and reporting on
average daily membership for the purposes of documenting any changes in such
numbers over time.

B. The Board shall evaluate the supports and programs available to students with
limited or interrupted formal education in local school divisions to determine
whether the calculations for the school quality indicators within the
Board&#8217;s Regulations Establishing the Standards for Accrediting Public
Schools in Virginia (8VAC20-131-5 et seq.) are appropriate or whether changes in
methodology could be made to more comprehensively measure the academic and
nonacademic achievement of such student population. Such evaluation shall be
completed to make the necessary revisions to impact the methodology for the
calculation of school accreditation ratings for the 2021-2022 school year.

HISTORY: 2020, c. 696.