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Mason District Community,
To date, I have received many inquiries related to the status of the Glasgow Middle School Boundary Study and the anticipated date of implementation of potential boundary adjustments. Please see the brief outline below of the process including general timelines. I will keep the community updated as more information from our Facilities team becomes available.
Please also find below an update for current pending legislation provided by the FCPS Office of Government Relations.
Glasgow MS Boundary Study
On June 13, 2023, the School Board adopted a motion to complete the Glasgow MS scoping study concurrently with the development of the Proposed FY 2025-2029 Capital Improvement Program (CIP).
Timeline
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Aug/Sept 2023 - Boundary Scope Community Meetings (Complete)
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March/April 2024 - Boundary Study Community Meetings to review Boundary Scope Recommendations
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May 2024 - Public Hearing
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May 2024 - School Board Action
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Fall 2025 - New Boundary Effective (anticipated 2025-2026 school year)
Education Legislation Update
Updated details about several bills of particular interest to FCPS have been provided by our Office of Government Relations and included below. More information and the complete review for the week ending January 21, 2024 is available HERE.
STUDENT ASSESSMENTS
HB 10 (Ware) and HB 13 (Ware) High school graduation requirements; passing score on select questions from the U.S. Naturalization Test. Requires each high school student to take and correctly answer at least 70 percent of the questions on a test composed of at least 50 but not more than 60 of the questions on the civics portion of the U.S. Naturalization Test in order to graduate high school with a standard or advanced studies diploma.
HB 1076 (Rasoul) and SB 435 (Suetterlein) Board of Education; through-year growth assessment system, alternatives during 2024–2025 Requires the Board of Education to permit school boards to administer, during the 2024-2025 school year, locally developed or adopted assessments as alternatives to the through-year growth assessment system established by the Board, provided that any such alternative assessment is aligned to the Standards of Learning.
HB 654 (Coyner) Virginia Parent Data Portal; Board of Education to create and maintain. Requires the Board of Education, on or before July 1, 2025, to create and maintain the Virginia Parent Data Portal.
SB 72 (McPike) Virginia Parent Data Portal; creation and maintenance by Board of Education. Requires the Board of Education, on or before July 1, 2025, to create and maintain the Virginia Parent Data Portal.
SCHOOL SAFETY
HB 66 (Campbell) Public schools; fire drills, timing and frequency. Requires the first of the two fire drills required during the first 20 days of each public school session to be conducted during the first 10 days of such school session.
HB 72 (Green) Public schools; threat assessment teams; duties; annual meeting with chief law-enforcement officer of locality or a designee from the local law-enforcement agency. Requires the threat assessment team established by the division superintendent for each public elementary or secondary school to meet at least annually on school grounds with the chief law-enforcement officer of the locality or a designee from the local law-enforcement agency to determine potential safety hazards or points of vulnerability on such grounds or in the school building and to discuss and promote active shooter prevention and natural disaster preparedness.
HB 1017 (Wilt) and SB 575 (Obenshain) Discharge plans; copies to public elementary and secondary schools. Provides that prior to the discharge of any minor or individual who has been admitted to inpatient treatment and is a student at a public elementary or secondary school, a copy of such minor's or individual's discharge plan shall be provided to the division superintendent and the division safety official in the local school division in which such minor or individual attends such school.
HB 1048 (Batten), HB 1218 (Geary), HB 1504 (Seibold), and SB 498 (Carroll Foy) School-connected overdoses; policies relating to parental notification and response, requirements. Requires each division superintendent or his designee to notify the parent of each student in the local school division of any school-connected overdose, defined as any verified overdose that occurs on school premises during or after regular school hours or during school-sanctioned activities whether on or off school premises, within 24 hours of learning of the overdose and to include in such notification as much information as is known about the circumstances surrounding the overdose.
STAFFING RATIOS
HB 583 (Simonds) Public elementary school teachers; length of daily lunch breaks. Requires each school board to ensure that all elementary school teachers in its employment are provided one lunch break per school day that is at least 30 minutes in length and unencumbered by any teaching or supervisory duties but that may be shortened or eliminated in the case of a bona fide emergency relating to health or safety.
TEACHER LICENSURE
SB 142 (Ruff) Public school teachers; licensure requirements; one-year local eligibility license; alternate routes and flexibility; report. Requires the Board of Education to include in its teacher licensure regulations provisions authorizing each school board to, upon recommendation of the division superintendent and in accordance with the criteria set forth in the bill, issue a one-year local eligibility license that is only valid within the issuing school division and renewable for no more than one additional year to any individual who (i) received a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher education, (ii) has experience or training in a subject or content area as the school board and division superintendent may deem appropriate for the applicable teaching position or endorsement area, and (iii) is not seeking to provide instruction in special education or eligible for collegiate professional or postgraduate professional licensure.
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