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Board approves construction guidelines, loans and educator testing option; other items cleared
Summary
At the same meeting the Board approved amended School Construction Assistance Program guidelines, four Literary Fund loans, two advisory‑committee nominees and the ETS Praxis Bridge alternative assessment option; staff also accepted proposed updates to the multi‑division online provider (MOP) process for first review.
The Virginia Board of Education approved several consent and action items at its meeting in Richmond: amended School Construction Assistance Program (SCAP) guidelines for the 2024–2026 biennium, four Literary Fund loans for school construction and renovation projects, two nominations to an advisory committee, and adoption of ETS’s Praxis Bridge alternative assessment pathway for candidates narrowly below Praxis cut scores. The board also accepted proposed updates to the multi‑division online provider (MOP) process for first review.
SCAP guideline changes The board approved amendments to the School Construction Assistance Program guidelines. Staff said the revisions encourage flexible learning space concepts, permit blending and braiding of funds (including industry in‑kind contributions), remove age of building as a scoring criterion, require that schools funded by SCAP be scheduled to remain open for at least five years, and add application points for divisions that have not recently…
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