Committee continues teacher-compact debate, reports school-psychologist compact
Delegates discussed interstate compacts to ease licensure portability for teachers and school psychologists; members raised questions about overlap with existing reciprocity law and provisional licensure pathways, and moved to continue the teacher compact (HB 253) to the 2027 session while recommending reporting for the school-psychologist compact (HB 255).
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Delegate Glass explained two interstate compacts: HB 253 (teacher compact) and HB 255 (school-psychologist compact). Compacts allow license mobility across member states once enacted by the required number of states; patrons described compacts as tools to help military families and other transient educators enter classrooms quickly while still meeting Virginia certification timelines.
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