CHAPTER 649
An Act to require the Board of Education to consider certain changes to its School Performance and Support Framework; report.
[H 643]
Approved April 13, 2026
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. § 1. The Board of Education (the Board) shall consider the following changes to the School Performance and Support Framework (the Framework) adopted by the Board in order to implement the School Accountability standards set forth in Part VIII (8VAC20- 132-60 et seq. of the Virginia Administrative Code) of the Virginia Standards of Accreditation:
1. Develop and apply new school performance label terminology that more clearly communicates school performance as part of a continuous scale. In developing such terminology, the Board shall consider labels such as exceeds standard, meets standard, partially meets standard, and does not meet standard or substantially similar descriptive school performance terminology.
2. Amend 8VAC20- 132-280 of the Virginia Administrative Code and such other regulations and rules as may be necessary to provide that (i) any school with a federal Comprehensive Support and Improvement designation shall be labeled as a school in the lowest performance category in the Framework, (ii) no school with a federal Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI) designation for one year shall be labeled in the highest performance category in the Framework, and (iii) no school with a federal Additional Targeted Support and Improvement designation or TSI designation for one or more of the same subgroups for two consecutive school years that scores in the second highest performance category in the Framework shall be labeled as a school in either of the two highest performance categories in the Framework.
3. Reduce from 0.75 to 0.5 the points awarded in mastery index calculations for students who score "Fail/Does Not Meet Proficiency" on assessments with three performance levels.
4. Rebalance the weight assigned to growth, at least equally with proficiency, to more fully account for each school's contribution to student learning.
5. Cap the total number of points that a high school is permitted to receive (i) as a whole or (ii) for any individual student pursuant to the 3E Framework established to calculate the readiness indicator for high schools (3E Readiness).