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State student advisory board presents recommendations on credentials, counseling and civic readiness
Summary
A student advisory board presented three proposals to the Virginia Board of Education on expanding credential access, improving school counseling services and strengthening civic readiness.
A student advisory board of high‑school representatives presented three policy proposals to the Board of Education during the public meeting: (1) expand access to industry‑recognized credentials (IRCs) by integrating selected credentials into the Uniform Certificate of General Studies (UCGS) passport and aligning high‑school pathways with the Virginia FastForward program; (2) strengthen school counseling by creating a statewide outreach/opportunities database, implementing counselor grade‑cohort continuity and a short student counseling portfolio; and (3) boost civic readiness by improving voting education, adding a political‑misinformation module to digital‑citizenship instruction, and expanding service‑learning and government‑shadowing programs.
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