Summary: State School Health Advisory Board. Establishes the State School Health Advisory Board in the executive branch to advise the General Assembly and the Governor on pending or proposed legislation concerning the role of employees in public elementary or secondary schools in providing health care services at such schools and to provide guidance on any associated training requirements. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.

Summary: School bus personnel; training program; autism spectrum disorders. Requires the Board of Education to establish a training program for school board employees who assist in the transportation of students on school buses, including individuals employed to operate school buses and school bus aides, on autism spectrum disorders, including the characteristics of autism spectrum disorders, strategies for interacting with students with autism spectrum disorders, and collaboration with other employees who assist in the transportation of students on school buses. The bill requires each school board employee who assists in the transportation of students with autism spectrum disorders on school buses to participate in such training program.

Summary: Department of Environmental Quality; Departmentof Education; grade six science curriculum. Directs the Departmentof Environmental Quality and the Department of Education to update the "Window into a Green Virginia" curriculum developed by the Departments for sixth grade science to include a unit on the benefits, includingthe energy benefits, of recycling and reuse.

Summary: Public schools; military children; tuition. Prohibits the child of a person on active military duty who is attending school for free from being charged tuition upon such child's relocation pursuant to orders his parent received to relocate to a new duty station or to be deployed. The bill allows the child to remain enrolled in the current school division free of tuition through the end of the school year. The bill also prohibits the child of a person on active military duty who is eligible to attend a school for free from being charged tuition by a school division that will be that child's school division of residence upon such child's service member parent's relocation to the jurisdiction for that school division pursuant to orders received.

Summary: Superintendent of Public Instruction; school personnel survey. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop and administer biennially to individuals holding a license from the Department of Education a voluntary and anonymous school personnel survey to evaluate school-level teaching conditions and the impact such conditions have on teacher retention and student achievement. The bill requires such survey to include questions regarding school leadership, teacher leadership, teacher autonomy, demands on teachers' time, student conduct management, professional development, instructional practices and support, new teacher support, community engagement and support, and facilities and other resources. The bill requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to report the results of the survey to the House Committees on Appropriations and Education and to the Senate Committees on Finance and Education and Health.

Summary: Children's Services Act; special education programs. Expands eligibility for services under the Children's Services Act to students who transfer from an approved private school special education program to a public school special education program established and funded jointly by a local governing body and school division located within Planning District 16 for the purpose of providing special education and related services when (i) the public school special education program is able to provide services comparable to those of an approved private school special education program and (ii) the student would require placement in an approved private school special education program but for the availability of the public school special education program. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.

Summary: High school apprenticeship tax credit. Creates a tax credit for a business that hosts a junior or senior in a Richmond City high school as an apprentice for a semester during the 2018-2019 or 2019-2020 academic year. The business would receive a $2,500 credit per student, per semester. Participation in the program would be limited to 25 students. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.

Summary: Standards of Quality; staffing requirements. Provides that a local school board that is required to employ two full-time librarians for any middle school or high school may meet such requirement by employing two full-time librarians or one full-time librarian and one full-time media specialist or instructional resource teacher. The bill also provides that a local school board that is required to employ a full-time school-based clerical person for the library for any middle school or high school may meet such requirement by employing one full-time school-based clerical person for the library, for instruction, or for assessment or career planning, or by employing one full-time classroom instructional assistant.

Summary: Public schools; Planning District 8; online courses and virtual programs. Prohibits any student who resides in Planning District 8 and is eligible for free or reduced price meals in the federally funded lunch program from being charged fees for enrolling in any online course or virtual program that is required or is offered by the school division in which he resides and requires such enrolled students to be provided, free of charge, a computer or other electronic device necessary to take the course or program.

Summary: Literary Fund; application for loans by regional and joint schools. Clarifies that school boards of school divisions participating in a regional or joint school may jointly apply to the Board of Education for a loan from the Literary Fund to benefit the regional or joint school.