Virginia students would be allowed to take the state’s annual learning assessments in a language other than English under a bill that advanced out of a House Education subcommittee on Tuesday.
Del. Laura Jane Cohen, D-Fairfax, introduced the legislation, after the Virginia Board of Education recently made changes to include more testing results from English learners, who have typically been excluded because of the language barrier, into a school’s accountability calculations.
Virginia’s schools are measured on whether they are meeting state expectations for student learning and proficiency through the Standards of Learning (SOL) assessments which test students on subjects like math, reading, science, writing, and history and social science.
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