Fully 实现 and fund the recommendations and policy options from the 2023 JLARC report on the Standards of Quality.
Scale the initial and continuing state supplement for 国家委员会认证 Incentive 奖 and cover fees for educators seeking certification to encourage high-quality professional development.
More adequately fund and support English Learner services and expand the flexibility of state support.
Provide ongoing state support to establish and sustain community school models.
Address evolving facets of school safety concerns for staff and students.
Increase the fairness and effort of funding for schools with a high share of students living in households experiencing poverty.
Provide funding to ensure teacher salaries are at or above the national average, school employees earn a living wage, and that compensation is provided to student teachers.
Protect school staff from counterproductive and unreasonable liabilities that limit their autonomy and safety.
离析 支持 立法 and Budget Items That:
Strengthen and protect fair labor practices and the right of public employees to organize and collectively bargain.
Require school divisions to provide parental leave and short-term disability, and to fairly compensate employees for unused accrued sick leave upon voluntary separation from employment with the division.
Guarantee elementary teachers 60 minutes of unencumbered planning time per day.
Protect and enhance indoor air quality at school sites, which includes air filtration systems and mold issues, so that students and staff have a safe and healthy learning environment.
Increase funding for mechanisms to support school construction and modernization.
促进安全, 只是, and equitable schools that are welcoming for all students and staff, 不歧视任何人, 并整合社会, 情感, 物理, 精神, and spiritual needs of the whole student.
Reduce and mitigate child poverty, including through policies that strengthen affordable housing access, 食品安全, comprehensive health coverage, targeted refundable tax credits, childcare and early childhood education, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs, 公共交通.
Promote common sense gun reforms and the 实现ation of evidence-based policies to proactively prevent gun violence in our schools and 社区.
Attract and retain high-quality teachers and school support professionals and improve professional development opportunities.
Strengthen the teacher pipeline by investing in more inaccessible pathways to becoming a certified teacher, while protecting rigorous standards for the profession that include the concepts of high academic performance, extensive clinical practice and field experience, and demonstrated knowledge of subject matter, 教育学, 儿童发展, 学习习得.
Support the unique needs and challenges in Virginia’s small and rural school divisions.
Reform Standards of 学习 (SOL) assessments to both reduce the total testing time for students annually and offer formative results to inform instructional practice.
改善, 实现, and fund professional development for educators that incorporate culturally responsive and trauma-informed restorative 只是ice practices, 解决内隐偏见.
改善 equitable access to high-speed Internet and appropriate technology for all students, 社区, 还有学校员工.
Maintain and improve responsible school operational plans that support and protect the safety, 心理健康, and social and 情感 learning of our students, 社区, 还有学校员工.
离析 反对 立法 and Budget Items That:
Undermine public-sector labor rights, including collective bargaining rights.
Create any new requirements for our public schools without the appropriate state share of funding to 实现 them.
Threaten public school funding or provide public dollars to unaccountable private and religious schools.
Transfer the authority for granting charter schools or similar non-traditional public schools away from the local school board.
Undermine or reduce the health or retirement benefits of school personnel.
Allow for the arming of school personnel with firearms or repeal/alter any law, 规则, or regulation designating school property as a gun-free zone.
Seek to repeal or restrict the rights and well-being of marginalized groups.
Disenfranchise Virginia residents from democratic and civic engagement with state government.
Supplant any rebenchmarking costs for required technical updates.
According to the Economic 政策 Institute, teachers in Virginia earn 一美元的67美分 compared to other (non-teacher) college-educated workers. Virginia’s teacher wage penalty is the worst in the nation.