Welcome Dear Readers!
Today was an
action filled day in the General Assembly. The main item of news is that HB 276
(Bell) was passed by indefinitely in the House Education Committee on a vote of
(12-10). VSBA strongly opposed this school discipline mandate that would have
handicapped the ability of school divisions to maintain classroom safety and
order. We sent an action alert to you yesterday, and you responded with true
spirit! Related to school discipline, HB 688 (McQuinn), also opposed by VSBA,
was tabled in House Appropriations Subcommittee on a vote of (5-3).
These close votes went in our favor because of your tireless advocacy and
education efforts with your legislators. Thank you for all your hard work! A
full breakdown of the day's activity is captured below.
VSBA staff
attended the 8:30 a.m. meeting of the House Education Committee. Bills of
interest to our organization discussed were:
HB 50 (Hope) - This bill would require each local school board to adopt policies that prohibit school board employees from requiring a student who cannot pay for a meal at school or who owes a school meal debt to do chores or other work to pay for such meals; and require school board employees to direct any communication relating to a school meal debt to the student's parent, which may be made by a letter addressed to the parent to be sent home with the student. This bill was reported unanimously by the committee with a substitute (22-0).
HB 296 (Bell, Richard P.) - This bill would prohibit students in preschool through grade three from being suspended or expelled except for drug offenses, firearm offenses, or certain criminal acts. As discussed, VSBA staff and membership advocated strongly against this bill as written. The committee passed the bill by indefinitely (12-10).
HB 803 (O'Quinn) - This bill would extend eligibility to participate in programs of preparation and instruction to take a high school equivalency examination approved by the Board of Education to individuals who are at least 16 years of age. Under current law, such programs are available only to adults who did not complete high school, students who have been granted permission by their division superintendent, and those who have been ordered by a court to participate in the program. The committee reported the bill unanimously (22-0).
HB 831 (Bagby) - This bill would require the Virtual Virginia program, established by the Department of Education, to be made available to all public middle and high schools. The bill would provide that such program may be made available to all public elementary schools. Under current law, Virtual Virginia is required to be made available to public high schools only. The bill also would replace the term "statewide electronic classroom" with "online learning program" to more accurately reflect the Virtual Virginia program. The committee reported the bill unanimously (22-0).
HB 1125 (Landes) - This is an omnibus bill making several changes to teacher licensure. Among other things, this substitute eliminates the requirements that teachers demonstrate proficiency in the use of educational technology for instruction and that they receive professional development in instructional methods tailored to promote student academic progress and effective preparation for the SOL end of course and end of grade assessments. The substitute also allows teachers to complete certain requirements during their first year of licensure rather than before licensure. The substitute provides for an alternate route to licensure for elementary education preK-6 and special education general curriculum. The substitute allows BOE to extend a provisional license for up to two additional years and provides for a 10 year renewable license instead of a 5 year renewable license. VSBA supports this
bill. The committee reported the bill unanimously (22-0).
HB 1346 (Thomas) - This bill would expand eligibility for services under the Children's Services Act to students who transfer from an approved private school special education program to a public school special education program established and funded jointly by a local governing body and school division located within Planning District 16 for the purpose of providing special education and related services when (i) the public school special education program is able to provide services comparable to those of an approved private school special
education program and (ii) the student would require placement in an approved
private school special education program but for the availability of the public
school special education program. The committee reported and referred the bill
to House Appropriations (21-1).
HB 1431 (Bell, Richard P.) - This bill would require the Virginia Public Building Authority to establish and administer the Public School Capital Grant Program (the Program) for the purpose of providing grants on a competitive basis to any local school board that governs a local school division in a locality that is determined to have high fiscal stress by the
Virginia Commission on Local Government in its most recent "Report on the Comparative Revenue Capacity, Revenue Effort, and Fiscal Stress of Virginia Counties and Cities" for such school board to use for school building capital renovation or construction projects. The bill caps each Program grant at $10 million and requires local matching funds for each such grant. The
committee reported and referred to House Appropriations unanimously (22-0).
HB 1532 (Herring) - Health education; prescription drugs. Requires the health
education program required for each public elementary and secondary school
student to include an age-appropriate program of instruction on the safe use of
and risks of abuse of prescription drugs that is consistent with curriculum
guidelines developed by the Board of Education and approved by the State Board
of Health. The bill requires the Board of Education to model such curriculum
guidelines after the curriculum adopted by the School Board of the City of
Virginia Beach regarding drugs and the opioid crisis. The committee reported
the bill with amendments that changed the language to a permissive tense
unanimously (22-0).
HB 350 (Reid) – This bill would require each local school board that does not offer a
universal full-day kindergarten (FDK) program for each kindergarten student in
the school division to develop and implement a plan to fund and phase in a
universal FDK program for each kindergarten student in the school division and
submit the plan to the General Assembly in advance of the 2019 Regular Session
of the General Assembly. The bill would require such plan to identify the
number and percentage of students enrolled in FDK in the local school division
(i) during the 2014-2015 school year and (ii) at the end of 2017, the specific
steps for full implementation of the plan, impediments to full implementation
of the plan, the areas in which support from the Commonwealth is necessary to
achieve full implementation of the plan, and lessons learned from previous or
ongoing efforts to provide a universal FDK program that can be shared with
other local school boards that do not offer a universal FDK program. The bill
was reported and referred to House Appropriations (17-4).
HB 380 (Krizek) – This bill would establish the Grow Your Own Teacher Program Fund and
permit the Department of Education to award grants from such fund to local
school boards to establish Grow Your Own Teacher Programs whereby the local
school board provides scholarships not to exceed $7,500 per academic year for
attendance at a baccalaureate institution of higher education in the
Commonwealth to any individual who (i) graduated from a public high school in
the local school division; (ii) was eligible for free or reduced price lunch
throughout the individual's attendance at a public high school in the local
school division; and (iii) commits to teach, within three years of graduating
from the baccalaureate institution of higher education in the Commonwealth and
for a period of at least four years, in the school division at a public high
school at which at least 50 percent of students qualify for free or reduced
price lunch. The bill would provide that in the event that any program
scholarship recipient fails or refuses to comply with such teaching obligation,
the sum of all scholarship funds received by such individual shall be converted
to a loan that is subject to repayment with interest. The committee reported
and referred the bill to House Appropriations (21-1).
HB 632 (Bulova) – This bill would require the Board of Education (Board) to (i) establish
content standards and curriculum guidelines for courses and programs of
instruction in existing courses in career investigation in elementary school,
middle school, and high school; (ii) develop, in consultation with
representatives of career and technical education, trade, and contractor
organizations, career investigation resource materials that are designed to
ensure that students have the ability to further explore interest in career and
technical education opportunities in middle and high school; and (iii)
disseminate such career investigation resource materials to each school board.
The bill would direct each school board to require each middle school student
to take at least one course or program of instruction in an existing course in
career investigation and permits each school board to require such courses or
programs of instruction in career investigation at the elementary and high
school level as it deems appropriate. The bill would provide that each such
course and program of instruction shall be equivalent in content and rigor to
the Board's content standards and curriculum guidelines and shall provide the
foundation for students to develop their academic and career plans. The
committee reported the bill with a substitute (21-1).
HB 676 (Pogge) – This bill would declare it the goal of the Commonwealth
that each child who is deaf or hard of hearing is (i) as linguistically ready
for kindergarten as his peers who are not deaf or hard of hearing and (ii)
receptively and expressively literate in English and literate in written
English by the end of third grade. The bill would require each agency of the
Commonwealth that is responsible for providing services to children who are
deaf or hard of hearing to collaborate to provide unified and seamless services
for each such child from the onset of the Early Hearing Detection and
Intervention process through the end of his elementary and secondary school
career. The bill also would establishe a 14-member Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing
Children's Advisory Subcommittee within the Disability Commission to advise the
Commission on the provision of services in the Commonwealth for children who
are deaf or hard of hearing. The committee reported the bill with a substitute
(18-4).
HB 1044 (Torian) – This bill would require each school board to adopt policies to (i)
prohibit abusive work environments in the school division, (ii) provide for the
appropriate discipline of any school board employee who contributes to an
abusive work environment, and (iii) prohibit retaliation or reprisal against a
school board employee who alleges an abusive work environment or assists in the
investigation of an allegation of an abusive work environment. The bill would define
an abusive work environment as one in which a school board employee engages in
conduct in the workplace that a reasonable person would find hostile and that
is severe enough to cause physical harm or psychological harm to another school
board employee. The committee reported the bill (15-7).
HB 1119 (VanValkenburg) – This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to
develop and make available annually to each public elementary and secondary
school teacher in the Commonwealth a voluntary and anonymous school climate
survey to evaluate school-level teaching conditions and the impact such
conditions have on teacher retention and student achievement. The bill would require
such survey to include questions regarding school leadership, teacher
leadership, teacher autonomy, demands on teachers' time, student conduct
management, professional development, instructional practices and support, new
teacher support, community engagement and support, and facilities and other
resources. The committee reported and referred the bill to House Appropriations
with technical amendments (21-1).
HB 1370 (Pogge) – This bill would clarify that a parent who provides home instruction
through a program of study or curriculum is required to provide his child with
such program of study or curriculum to satisfy the requirements for the home
instruction of such child. The committee reported the bill unanimously (22-0).
HB 1419 (Delaney) – This bill would require local
school boards to provide (i) a minimum of 680 hours of instructional time to
students in elementary except for students in half-day kindergarten and (ii) a
minimum of 375 hours of instructional time to students in half-day kindergarten
in the four academic disciplines of English, mathematics, science, and history
and social science. The bill would authorize local school boards to include and
requires the Board of Education to accept, elementary school, unstructured
recreational time that is intended to develop teamwork, social skills, and
overall physical fitness in any calculation of total instructional time or
teaching hours. The committee reported the bill with a technical substitute
(21-1).
HB 1485 (Filler-Corn) – This bill would make
several changes to the procedures relating to interventions when a pupil fails
to report to school for a total of five scheduled school days for the school
year, no indication has been received by school personnel that the pupil's
parent is aware of and supports the pupil's absence, and a reasonable effort to
notify the parent has failed, including (i) removing the appointed attendance
officer as a party to the plan to resolve such nonattendance, (ii) permitting
but not requiring the attendance officer to participate in the conference
necessitated by additional absences subsequent to the development of the plan,
and (iii) permitting but not requiring the attendance officer to file a
complaint with the juvenile and domestic relations court alleging the pupil is
a child in need of supervision or to institute criminal proceedings against the
parent pursuant to relevant law. Under current law, the attendance officer is
required to participate in such conference and is also required to file such
complaint and institute such proceedings in cases in which the pupil is absent
for an additional school day without indication that the pupil's parent is
aware of and supports the pupil's absence. The committee reported the bill with
a substitute (17-5).
HB 1530 (Davis) – The bill would provide
that, except in the case of high school students who are eligible for the
Applied Studies diploma, each high school student who has met the requirements
for graduation prescribed by the Board of Education and the local school board
shall be awarded a diploma of achievement or a diploma of achievement with a
foreign language endorsement. Under current law and Board of Education
regulations, each high school student who has met the requirements for
graduation is required to be awarded a standard diploma or an advanced studies
diploma. The committee reported the bill with a substitute (17-5).
HB 167 (Miyares)
– This bill would require the
Board of Education to establish criteria for awarding a diploma seal for
science, technology, engineering, and advanced mathematics (STEAM) for the
Board of Education-approved diplomas. Under current law, such diploma seal is
limited in scope to technology and advanced mathematics. The committee
reported the bill with a substitute (20-1).
HB 544 (Freitas) – This
bill would permit each local school board to (i)
establish High School to Work Partnerships (Partnerships) between public high
schools and local businesses to create opportunities for high school students
to (a) participate in an apprenticeship, internship, or job shadow program in a
variety of trades and skilled labor positions or (b) tour local businesses and
meet with owners and employees or (ii) delegate the authority to establish
Partnerships to the local school division's career and technical education
administrator or his designee, in collaboration with the guidance counselor
office of each public high school in the school division. The bill would require
such local school boards to educate high school students about opportunities
available through such Partnerships. The bill would also require the Board of
Education, the Department of Labor and Industry, and the State Board for
Community Colleges to identify Partnerships that may be eligible for exemptions
from certain federal and state labor laws and regulations and establish
procedures by which such exemptions may be obtained for such Partnerships. VSBA
supports the bill. The committee reported the bill unanimously (22-0).
HB 1502 (Miyares) – This bill would establish the Advanced Placement and
International Baccalaureate Testing Grant Fund and Program, to be administered
by the Department of Education, for the purpose of awarding grants to local
school boards to be used to cover half of the fee required to participate in
any Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate test for any high school
student in the local school division who receives free or reduced price lunch.
The bill would require the Department of Education to establish guidelines and
procedures for application for and disbursement of such grants. The bill would require
local school boards to use such grant funds to supplement, not supplant, any other
federal, state, local, or private funds made available to cover such testing
fees for high school students who receive free or reduced price lunch. The committee
reported and referred the bill to House Appropriations (20-2).
HB 810 (O'Quinn) – A substitute for this bill was adopted by the committee. The substitute reduces the training requirements for certain bus driver applicants. VSBA supports this bill. The committee reported the bill with substitute unanimously (22-0).
HB 1000 (Gilbert) – A substitute for this bill was adopted by the committee. The purpose of the bill is to address a 2015 decision of the Virginia Supreme Court, Butler v. Fairfax County School Board. The bill would allow a school board that employed individuals who had certain felony convictions as of the date of the Butler decision to rehire those individuals. The committee reported the bill unanimously
with the substitute (22-0).
HB 15 (Mullin) - This bill would require a principal to first take appropriate alternative disciplinary action or determine that no such appropriate alternative disciplinary action exists before referring to the local law-enforcement agency student incidents of assault and assault and battery without bodily injury. The subcommittee recommended passing the bill by indefinitely (5-3).
HB 274 (Ward) - This bill provide that a student may have multiple discretionary diversions for truancy so long as no previous diversion occurred during the same school year. The bill extends the time frame for filing the complaint and implementing an informal truancy plan from 90 days to 120 days. The subcommittee recommended the bill for reporting unanimously (8-0).
HB 292 (Collins) - This bill would add abduction to the list of offenses that are reported to school division superintendents by a juvenile intake officer when a petition is filed alleging a student committed such offense. The bill would also add abduction and acts of violence by mobs to the list of offenses reported to school division superintendents by a law-enforcement officer when a student who is 18 years of age or older is arrested for committing such an offense; acts of violence by mobs is already on the list reported by an intake officer for a minor student. The bill would also add abduction on school property, on a school bus, or at a school-sponsored activity to the list of incidents to be reported to school division superintendents and principals. The subcommittee unanimously recommended the bill for reporting (8-0).
HB 438 (Bulova) - This bill would prohibit any person who is an employee, contractor, or agent of a public school or accredited private school from assisting an employee, contractor, or agent in obtaining a new job if such person knows or has probable cause to believe that such employee, contractor, or agent engaged in sexual misconduct regarding a minor or student. The subcommittee recommended the bill for reporting with a substitute unanimously (8-0).
HB 445 (Carroll Foy) - This bill would eliminate the requirement that school
principals report certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor
offense to law enforcement. VSBA supports the bill. The subcommittee recommended passing the bill by indefinitely (5-2).
VSBA staff also attended House Cities, Counties, and Towns Subcommittee #2. One bill of interest to VSBA was discussed:
HB 1471 (Hugo) - This bill would require that the final step in an employee grievance procedure adopted by a local governing body, providing for a hearing before an administrative hearing officer or an impartial panel hearing, be selected by the aggrieved employee. Currently, the selection of this final step requires the agreement of both parties. The bill would also permit a school board to conduct a teacher grievance hearing before a three-member fact-finding panel. Under current law, the school board has the option of appointing a hearing officer or conducting such hearing itself. The bill contains technical amendments. The bill was amended to remove teachers from the affected employees. The subcommittee recommended carrying the bill over to 2019.
Lastly, VSBA staff attended a meeting of House Appropriations Elementary and Secondary Education Subcommittee. Bills of interest to VSBA that advanced out of the subcommittee were:
HB 670 (Kilgore) - This bill would permit any local school board that governs a
school division (i) in which the locality is designated as fiscally at-risk or
fiscally distressed by the Appalachian Regional Commission in the most recent
fiscal year or is determined to have above-average fiscal stress or high fiscal
stress by the Virginia Commission on Local Government in its most recent
"Report on the Comparative Revenue Capacity, Revenue Effort, and Fiscal
Stress of Virginia Counties and Cities" and (ii) for which the composite
index of local ability to pay is less than or equal to 0.2000 to expend up to
25 percent of the required local match for basic aid for debt service on school
building capital renovation or construction projects. The bill would provide that in
the event that the school division no longer meets such criteria, the local
school board shall develop and implement a plan to readjust expenditures of the
required local match for basic aid over the course of no more than 10 fiscal
years. The bill would also provide that in the event that a school division that no
longer met such criteria and that developed such plan subsequently meets the
criteria again, the local school board may seek the approval of the
Superintendent of Public Instruction to amend such plan. The subcommittee recommended the bill for reporting unanimously (8-0).
HB 692 (Marshall) - This bill would provide that the Commonwealth's calculation of the composite index of local ability-to-pay shall take into account an arrangement by localities entered into pursuant to the Virginia Regional Industrial Facilities Act whereby a portion of tax revenue is initially paid to one locality and redistributed to another locality. Such calculation shall properly apportion the percentage of tax revenue ultimately received by each locality. The subcommittee recommended the bill for reporting unanimously (8-0).
The
Following Bills were laid on the table by the subcommittee:
HB 1508
(Adams) – This bill would declare it to be
the policy of the Commonwealth that school boards that are unable to fund the
total amount required by the locality's composite index of local ability to pay
to reach the prevailing funded salary for (i) qualified instructional positions
funded under the Standards of Quality, as set out in Direct Aid to Public
Education in the general appropriation act, and (ii) support services positions
shall receive, to the extent practicable, state funds for qualified
instructional positions and support services positions in addition to those
state funds that the school board receives for public school purposes.
HB 176 (Bell,
Richard) – This bill would require the
Department of Education to develop and implement a pilot program in two local
school divisions in the Commonwealth to partner with the appropriate school
board employees in each such local school division to (i) identify the
resources, services, and supports required by each student who resides in each
such local school division and who is educated in a private school setting
pursuant to his Individualized Education Program; (ii) study the feasibility of
transitioning each such student from his private school setting to an
appropriate public school setting in the local school division and providing
the identified resources, services, and supports in such public school setting;
and (iii) recommend a process for redirecting federal, state, and local funds,
including funds provided pursuant to the Children's Services Act, provided for
the education of each such student to the local school division for the purpose
of providing the identified resources, services, and supports in the
appropriate public school setting.
HB 336 (Cole)
– This bill would make several changes relating
to the provisions for special education programs for students with blindness or
visual impairment, including (i) requiring each local school board to provide
instruction in Braille and the use of Braille for such students unless the
student's Individualized Education Program (IEP) team determines, after a
critical assessment of the student, that instruction in Braille or the use of
Braille is not appropriate to the student's educational needs and (ii)
requiring a critical assessment to be administered to each student with
blindness or visual impairment triannually and after any significant change in
the student's vision. The bill would define "critical assessment" as
an assessment of a student with blindness or visual impairment conducted by a
licensed Teacher of the Visually Impaired that includes (a) a functional vision
assessment conducted in an educational setting; (b) an assessment of reading
media that is designed for and intended to be administered to students, is
administered in the student's native language and in accordance with any
instructions, and contains appropriate objective components such as font size,
sustained reading speed, and fluency; (c) an assessment of the student's
reading comprehension and writing skills; and (d) consideration of the
student's current and future needs, including consideration of the student's
current and future technology support needs.
HB 255
(Guzman) – This bill would establish the
Public Preschool Fund and Grant Program for the purpose of funding and
providing on a competitive basis grants to local school boards to establish and
maintain public preschool programs for children who reside in the local school
division and who will have reached their fourth birthday on or before September
30 of the relevant school year. The bill would require the Department of
Education to administer the Public Preschool Grant Program and establish (i)
guidelines and procedures for grant applications, awards, and renewals; (ii)
standards for preschool programs established and maintained by grant
recipients, including standards for curriculum, student achievement,
attendance, instruction, personnel, and length of school day and school year;
and (iii) data collection and reporting requirements for grant recipients. The
bill would require the Department of Education to give priority to grant
applicants who propose a plan for the innovative use of facilities in the local
school division to house the proposed public preschool program, including
community centers and recreation centers.
HB 13 (Kory)
– This bill would require
state funding to be provided pursuant to the general appropriation act to
support 20 full-time equivalent instructional positions for each 1,000 students
identified as having limited English proficiency. Current law requires state
funding to support 17 such positions for each 1,000 such students.
HB 687
(McQuinn) – This bill would create the
Virginia Public School Improvement Program to offer maximum educational options
and flexibility for parents, teachers, and students. The bill would authorize
any local school board to designate or approve any public school within its
school division to participate in the Program if (i) a majority of parents and
teachers of students at the school have petitioned the school board to
participate in the Program, (ii) it does not meet the requirements to be fully
accredited, or (iii) the school's pass rates for English and mathematics are
below the division-wide average. Local school boards would continue to receive
state basic school aid funding for participating schools, and participating
schools would be exempt from certain school division policies and state
regulations but would have to meet Standards of Quality, Standards of Learning,
Standards of Accreditation, and certain federal requirements. Participation in
the Program can be rescinded (a) by petition of a majority of parents and
teachers, (b) if the school makes application to operate as a charter school,
(c) if the school violates the stipulated contract with the local school board,
or (d) if students at a participating school fail to achieve satisfactory
academic progress each year for two consecutive school years. The bill would require
the Board of Education to establish guidelines to assist school boards in
implementing the Program in the school division and provide technical
assistance to school boards upon request.
HB 688
(McQuinn) – This bill would require
local school boards to provide alternative education programs for suspended
students. VSBA opposes this bill strongly and spoke in opposition.
HB 168 (Murphy)
– This bill would establish a maximum class size
of 24 students in science laboratory classes in grades six through 12. VSBA
spoke in opposition to the bill.
HB 1576
(Peace) – This bill would provide that if a
county contains a school division composed of a town, the county's composite
index shall be calculated as if the school division were not in the
county. Under current law as provided in the general
appropriation act, the composite index of local ability to pay is used to
calculate each locality's share of basic aid funding for education.
HB 791 (Pogge)
– This bill would exclude school nurse positions
from requirements for student support positions and instead requires each local
school board to employ at least one full-time equivalent school nurse position
in each elementary school, middle school, and high school in the local school
division or at least one full-time equivalent school nurse position per 550
students in grades kindergarten through 12.
HB 121
(Rasoul) – This bill would require the
Department of Education to establish an interagency taskforce composed of state
and local agencies and entities in the areas of early childhood development,
health, social services, community engagement, family engagement, higher
education, and workforce development for the purpose of developing a program
for the establishment of community schools whereby public elementary and
secondary schools serve as centers for the provision of such community programs
and services to students and their families as may be necessary on the basis of
the unique needs of the student population to be served.
HB 1380 (Robinson)
– This bill would reduce from 35 to 29 the
maximum class size in grades four through six.
HB 199
(Sullivan) – This bill would require the
Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and appoint members to the
Digital Citizenship, Internet Safety, and Media Literacy Advisory Council
(Council), including at least one teacher, librarian, representative of a
parent-teacher organization, school administrator, and individual with
expertise in digital citizenship, Internet safety, and media literacy. The bill
would require the Council to (i) develop and recommend to the Board of
Education for adoption a model policy for local school boards that would enable
such school boards to better support the digital citizenship, Internet safety,
and media literacy of all students in the local school division; (ii) develop
and recommend to the Board for adoption model instructional practices for the
safe, ethical, and responsible use of media and technology by students in
public elementary and secondary schools; and (iii) design and post on the
Department of Education's website a page with links to successful instructional
practices, curricula, and other teacher resources used in school divisions
within and outside of the Commonwealth for the safe, ethical, and responsible
use of media and technology by students. VSBA spoke in support of this
bill.
HB 1111
(Tran) – This bill would establish the STEAM
Education Fund for the purpose of awarding grants in amounts not to exceed
$50,000 annually to any public elementary or secondary school in the
Commonwealth at which at least 25 percent of students qualify for free or
reduced lunch that provides an academic class, curriculum, or activity focused
on a science, technology, engineering, arts, or mathematics (STEAM) discipline.
HB 1118
(VanValkenburg) – This bill would establish
the SAT School Day Fund (the Fund) and requires the Board of Education to
establish and maintain the SAT School Day Program (the Program) whereby the
Board utilizes funds made available through the Fund to enter into a contract
with the College Board to enable each public high school junior in the
Commonwealth to participate in the SAT free of charge during a select school
day.
