The Student Success Act would, among many other things, legalize charter schools, raise public school worker pay and lower the amount of daily instructional time students are currently guaranteed.
The Republican-controlled House of Delegates killed Senate Republicans' last "omnibus" education bill (Senate Bill 451) in February, on the first day of this year's two-day strike.
Also Sunday, the Senate had its official "first reading" of another
controversial bill (Senate Bill 1040), which would create non-public school vouchers, called "education savings accounts."