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... read full story
"This bill is meant to address the difficulty that language barriers present in capturing the knowledge and understanding that our SOL assessments were intended to evaluate,"
