Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Education
 
Board
State Board of Education
 
Guidance Document Change: In 2021, the Virginia General Assembly passed House Bill 1904 and Senate Bill 1196, and was signed into law by Governor Northam. The law establishes new requirements to support culturally competent educators in the Commonwealth. The Guidance on Cultural Competency Training for Teachers and Other Licensed School Board Employees in Virginia Public Schools was developed for the Board to fulfill the statutory mandate to provide guidance on the minimum standards for the local training requirement.
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1/3/22  7:37 pm
Commenter: Barbara

This means what?
 

"Cultural competency" is a phrase that is not objectively definable, and this "guidance" document is nebulous at best. If you cannot succinctly and clearly state achievable academic goals, then what are you doing? If your mushy ill-defined guidance is intended to rock teachers back on their heels and rob them of confidence in their academic subject matter and their sense of their own decency and to make them afraid to exert authority over their classrooms, this document opens the door for their school district to do that to them.

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