The Senate Education and Health Committee met this morning and considered the following piece of legislation of interest to school boards in Virginia.
SB 5114 (McDougle) School boards; in-person instruction; Internet access; emergency. Requires each school board to make available in-person instruction to each enrolled student when any residential area in the local school division is not capable of receiving Internet access at speeds greater than 10 MBps download speed and one MBps upload speed. The bill contains an emergency clause.
The legislation was Passed by Indefinitely by a vote of 8-6.
