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Board recommends wording edits to literacy regulations, advances VLA changes
Summary
AvTel recommended targeted wording updates to proposed Virginia Literacy Act regulations (Chapter 23) — including replacing “fiction and nonfiction” with “literary and informational” in several places — and voted to forward the edits; staff said changes will be phased in with guidance for educator-preparation programs.
The advisory board on teacher education and licensure recommended edits to proposed regulations implementing the Virginia Literacy Act and approved sending those changes forward to the board of education.
The panel voted to change selected passages in the licensure regulations to replace “fiction and nonfiction” with “literary and informational” text in identified lines and to approve other technical edits. Chair-led voice votes carried the motions without recorded opposition.
Rob Gilstrap, assistant superintendent of human capital, reviewed the regulatory packet and described how the proposed edits will proceed through the regulatory…
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