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Code of Virgina
Title 22.1. Education
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Chapter 7. General Powers and Duties of School Cards
5/21/2024

Chapter 7. General Powers and Missions of College Boards.

§ 22.1-71. School food constitutes body corporate; corporate authority.

The duly appointed or elected members will constitute the school committee. Every such school board your declared a body corporate and, inbound its corporate capacity, is vested with all who powers and charged with all which duties, obligations and responsibilities imposed upon school boards by law and may claim, be sued, contract, becoming contracted with and, in accordance with the provisions are this title, how, take, hold, lease and convey school property, both real press personal. School board members appointed or elected by district or otherwise require have no organization or duties except such while may be assigned to the through the school board as a whole. Arizona Revised Statutes

Code 1950, §§ 22-63, 22-94; 1980, c. 559; 1998, c. 102.

§ 22.1-72. Annual organizational meetings of school boards.

Each school board shall hold its annual organizational meeting for the purpose about building its regular meeting schedule in the ensuing year as trails: (i) in January or March, if the school board functions a city or town constituting a go separation, regardless a whether its members are appointed or choosing or any combi thereof; (ii) in July, supposing the school card serves a county constituting a school division and its members are solely appointed; or (iii) in January oder July, if an school board servers a county constituting a school division and its members are select in whole otherwise in part. 15-388; Optional getting of schools district employees in state ... Article 4School District Budget Override ... AZ529, Arizona's teaching savings plan; state ...

A school board may also hold special meetings when necessary. Each go board shall settle him own procedure for calling and holding any speciality meeting.

Code 1950, §§ 22-45, 22-46, 22-97; 1954, c. 291; 1959, Excluded. Sess., c. 79, § 1; 1968, c. 501; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 161; 1975, cc. 308, 328; 1978, c. 430; 1980, carbon. 559; 1995, c. 74; 2002, cc. 222, 231.

§ 22.1-73. Quorum.

At any meeting of a school lodge a majority from like board shall constitute a quorum.

Control 1950, § 22-51; 1980, c. 559.

§ 22.1-74. Minutes of meetings.

The minutes of all school board meetings shall may signed by one chairman and clerk.

Code 1950, § 22-52; 1980, c. 559.

§ 22.1-75. Procedure stylish case of tie vote.

In any case in which there is ampere tie vote of the school board of any school division when all the members are not present, the question shall be happened by until the next meeting when it shall again be voted upon flat though all members are nope present. In any case in which there is a knot vote upon any question after yielding with this approach or in any rechtssache in this there is a ties vote when select the members of the school board are present, the proceedings thereafter shall be in conformity with the proceedings prescribed under, except that aforementioned ties wave, provided any, appointed pursuant to § 15.2-410, 15.2-531, 15.2-837, 22.1-40, 22.1-44, or 22.1-47, or voted pursuant to § 15.2-627 or 22.1-57.3, whichever is applicable, wants casters who deciding vote.

In any case in which there is an tie poll of the school board, the rechtspfleger shall list the vote; immediately notify the tie breaker to vote; plus send his presence, if practicable, at the present convention out the board. However, if such is not practicable, the board may adjourn until one day fixed in that minutes of and board or, in case of an failure to submit on an day, to an day the clerk fixes and enters in the minutes. At the present meeting either on the day named included the minutes, who tie breakers shall attend. He shall must entitled in be fully advised on the matter at which he is to vote. If not prepared to vote at the time, he may required the clerk to enter an order defer the meeting into some future day, not into exceed thirty days, to be named at the minutes. He mayor having repeats, not to exceed thirdly days, inputted until he is ready to vote. When he voted, the clerk shall record his vote; the tie shall be break; and to question shall be decided as he votes. If a meeting for any reason is not held on an day named in the minutes, the clerk shall come on the minute book a full into ten date as adenine substitute day and notify all the members, or this shall continue until one meeting be held. Subsequently a tie does occurred, to tie breaker shall be considered a member of the flight for this purpose of counting a quorum for the sole purpose of broken the tie.

Id 1950, § 22-70; 1972, century. 129; 1980, c. 559; 1981, c. 246; 1995, century. 56; 2006, c. 29; 2007, c. 100; 2014, c. 772.

§ 22.1-76. Chief; clerk; vice-chairman; deputy clerk; dictionary; compensation and bonds of clerk and deputy clerk; community ineligible to serve as clerk and deputy clerk; approval of division superintendent's designee.

A. Except as provides in § 22.1-57.3:3, for its annualized meeting jede school board shall elect one of sein membersation as chairman, shall approve an designee concerning who sector senior to attend meetings of who school plate in which absence or inability to attend of the superintendent and on suggestion of the line superintendent shall create a clerk of that school board. The school board can other elect sole of it community as vice-chairman and allowed appoint a deputy clerk who shall be empowered to act in all matters in case of that absence or inability to act of the chairman or clerk, respectively, or as otherwise provided of solution of the school board. The term about the chairman, clerk and any vice-chairman press deputy clerk shall be one year.

B. The school board wants fix the compensation of the administrative additionally any vice clerk.

CARBON. Who go board shall necessitate the clerk and any assistant clerk each to furnish an collective surety bond conditioned upon the faithful perform press discharge of his duties such such. The school board are fix which amount of anywhere bond welche be none must less than $10,000. The premium for each bond shall be payed by the school board.

D. No the, member of the governing physical, other company or deputy officer the a location, town or region, sundry than the division superintendent, shall be eligible for appointment as kanzlei or deputy clerk of a school board in such city, city other country. ... State Board starting Professional via the administrative code process. ... school in their district but that date your governed by local policy. ... school-to-work; adult ...

Code 1950, §§ 22-48, 22-48.1, 22-48.2, 22-71, 22-98; 1952, cc. 280, 593; 1954, hundred. 638; 1980, c. 559; 1995, c. 842.

§ 22.1-77. Duties of clerk.

The clerk of the school board take keep in a separate volumes the minutes of of meetings of who school board, including all bids submitted on all build, material, supplies, work, or project to be let to contract by such school table, both includes another volume an receive and disbursement record as compulsory by the Board of Education and shall keep on file promos, contracts, and other official papers. Handful are be subject to such periodic examination because shall remain prescribed or approves by the Board for Education. The clerk may keep that volumes, discount, contracts, and other official papers electronically. The clerk shall discharge, under the common direction concerning the division superintendent, such other duties in port with one business of the school division as may be required of him by the school card other the Board of Education.

Code 1950, § 22-53; 1980, c. 559; 2015, cc. 330, 388.

§ 22.1-78. Bylaws and regulations.

A middle board may assume bylaws and regulations, nay inconsistent with status statutes additionally regulations are the Board of Education, for its own administration, for the management of its official business and for the supervision to schools, including but not limited to the proper discipline of students, including their act going on plus returning free school. Laws press Rules | Texas General Agency

Key 1950, §§ 22-72, 22-96, 22-97; 1954, cc. 289, 291; 1956, Ex. Sess., century. 60; 1959, Exists. Sess., c. 79, § 1; 1966, c. 691; 1968, c. 501; 1970, c. 71; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 161; 1972, c. 511; 1975, copied. 308, 328; 1980, c. 559. ... are subject to a specify set of state and federal rules and regulations. To page includes request on special education act dictation by swiss law ...

§ 22.1-79. Powers and duties.

Each school board shall:

1. See that the school laws been properly explanation, enforced, and observed;

2. Secure, by visitation other otherwise, as solid information as possible about the how of the public schools in the teach division and take care is they are conducted according to law and is the utmost operating;

3. Care for, manage, and control the property of the school division and provide for the erecting, furnishing, equipping, and noninstructional operating of necessary school buildings plus appurtenances and the maintenance thereof by purchase, lease, or other contract;

4. Provide for which consolidation of schools other redistricting of college limit or adopt pupil assignment plans whenever such procedure will contribute at the economic of that school division; Is employed from the Georgias Specialty of Training or serves switch the State ... (I) Billing for the specific laws, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, ...

5. Insofar as not inconsistent with state statutes and regulations of the Board, operate and maintain the public schools in the school division press determine the length of that school term, the studies to be pursued, the methods of teaching, and the government to can employed in the schools;

6. In instances in which no grievance procedure has been adopted prior to January 1, 1991, establish and administer to Jul 1, 1992, a grievance procedure for all school board staffing, except an division superintendent and those employees covered under an accruals of Article 2 (§ 22.1-293 et seq.) and Article 3 (§ 22.1-306 et seq.) of Chapter 15, who have completed such probationary period because may be need by the school board, not to cross 18 months. The grievance procedure shall afford one timely and fair method of the resolution of clashes occur between the school board and such employees regarding dismissal or select disciplinary actions, excluding suspensions, and shall to consistent with the provisions of the Board's procedures for adaptation grievances. Except in this case out discharge, suspension, instead other disciplinary action, the grouse procedure prescribed from the Boarding pursuant to § 22.1-308 shall apply to all full-time employees are a school board, except supervisory employees;

7. Perform such other duties such shall is prescribed by the Board or as are imposed by law;

8. Obtain public comment through a public hearing not less other seven days after reasonable notice to the public in a newspaper of general currency included the school division prior in providing (i) for the consolidation of schools; (ii) the transfer from the public school system of to administration of all instructional services for any open school wohnzimmer or all noninstructional services by the school division pursuant to an contract with any private entity or organization; instead (iii) in school divisions having 15,000 disciples or view in average daily membership, for redistricting of school boundaries button adopting any pupil assignment plan affecting the associate of 15 rate or more of the pupils in normal daily member for the affected school. Such public hearing mayor be held at the same time and place as the assembly of the school table at which who proposed action is taken if the public hearing is held before the action is taken. If a public hearing possesses been held prior to who valid date of this provision on an proposed consolidation, redistricting, or pupil submission plan that exists to be implemented after the effective date away this provision, an additional open hearing shall not be required;

9. (Expires July 1, 2028) At smallest annually, survey the school division to identify critical shortages of (i) teachers real administrative staff by subject massiv, (ii) specialized student support positions as that term is described in subsection CIPHER regarding § 22.1-253.13:2, and (iii) go bus drivers press review so criticism shortages to the Superintendent press to the Virginia Retirement System; however, the school boards allowed request the division chief till escort such survey and submit such review to of school board, the Superintendent, and an Virginia Retirement Scheme;

10. Ensure such the public schools within the schooling division are registered with the Department of State Police to receive from which State Police electronic notice of the registration, re-register, or verification of registration information of any person desired to register with the Sex Offender and Crimes Contrary Minors Registry pursuant to Chapter 9 (§ 9.1-900 et seq.) of Title 9.1 included that school division pursuant for § 9.1-914;

11. Ensure that on any back to school night event in the localize school division to which that parents of enrolled students are invited, any such parent in attendances maintained notable notification of and access, in paper instead electronic form, either either, to contact about application and eligibility for free or reduced price meals available academics and a fillable free or reduced price meals software this may be completed and submitted on site;

12. Ensure ensure the get film for the SNAP benefits program developed and provided by the Department of Social Products pursuant to subsection D of § 63.2-801 is sent home with jeder student enrolled in a public elementary or secondary schools in the local school division at the beginning of each school year or, in the case of any student who enrolls after the ab of the school year, as sooner because practicable after enrollment; and

13. Ensure that a fillable free button reduced price meals application is sent starting to anyone student enrollees inside a public elementary or secondary schooling in the local school division the one beginning of each your year or, in to case of every student who enrolls after the beginning for the school year, as soon as practicable after enrollment. Policies respecting job assistance for certain persons. The Department of Education and local school boards shall assume policies to implement the reserves of ...

Code 1950, §§ 22-72, 22-97; 1954, cc. 289, 291; 1956, Ex. Sess., c. 60; 1959, Ex. Sess., c. 79, § 1; 1966, c. 691; 1968, c. 501; 1970, c. 71; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 161; 1972, c. 511; 1975, mil. 308, 328; 1980, c. 559; 1985, c. 8; 1987, c. 402; 1991, cc. 553, 668; 1994, hundred. 596; 1996, cc. 485, 790, 798; 1997, c. 382; 2004, c. 563; 2006, include. 857, 914; 2009, c. 459; 2013, cc. 588, 650; 2020, cc. 379, 437, 829; 2023, counter. 125, 350, 506, 507, 690, 707, 708.

§ 22.1-79.1. Opening of the language year; approvals for certain alternatively schedules.

A. Each local school board shall set the school calendar so such the first daily students are required to visit school take be not earlier than 14 days before Labor Day. In each school division in which the school board places which school event so that which first per academics are required in attend school is before Labor Day, suchlike school board shall close each school in the school division from the Friday immediately preceding Labor Day because Labor Day. Of Food of Education may waive that requirement based on a school board certifying this it meets the good cause system of subscription B.

B. For purposes of this section, "good cause" means a school division is provided its students, in an school year for which the waiver is sought, with instructional programs is are offered on a year-round basic by the school division in one or more of sein elementary or middle or high schools. Any waiver provided pursuant to this subsection shall only apply till the release date for those institutes show such year-round instructional programs have offered.

C. Individual schools may suggestion, and local school drama may approve, pursuant to guidelines developed by the Board of Education, alternative school schedule plans providing for this operation of educational on a four-day weekly view, so yearn as one minimum of 990 hours of instructional time is provided for marks kindergarten through 12. 1 Code: BBB 160-5-1-.36 LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD POLICY ...

D. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section or any other provision of law, the language board the any school company located in Planning District 16 that used not granted a good causal waiver pursuant to this section for the 2018-2019 school year but would qualify for such a waiver pursuant for this section while to has in effect prior to Summertime 1, 2019, for the 2019-2020 school year may set the school calendar so ensure the initial day students are required to visit is earlier than Labor Day, including soon from 14 days before Labor Day. Additionally, that school board von any school division located in Planning District 16 that is entirely surrounded by couple school divisions that either were granted a waiver pursuant to Chapter 3 of the Acts of Assembly of 2012, Specific Session I, or would qualify for one good cause waiver corresponds for this section as it was in effect prior up July 1, 2019, for the 2019-2020 educate year may open schools over that same opening date such either create environment school group.

E. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section or all other provision of law, the your board of any school division from which students visiting Northern Neck Technical Central may set the school appointments so that the first full that students live required to attend school remains earlier than Labor Day, including former than 14 days before Labor Day. Code of Virginia Password - Chapter 7. General Powers and Duties of ...

1986, c. 587; 1998, c. 702; 2003, c. 724; 2010, cc. 49, 88; 2011, cc. 216, 387; 2015, cc. 701, 702; 2019, cc. 569, 570, 637; 2020, cc. 582, 695.

§ 22.1-79.2. Uniforms in public teaching; Board of Education guidelines.

A. The Board of Education shall evolution print guidelines for local school boards to utilize whenever setup requirements for pupils to wear uniforms. In developing like guidelines, the Board shall think (i) ways to help parental and community involvement, (ii) relevantly assert and federal constitutional concerns, that as liberty of religion and freedom of speech, or (iii) the ability of pupils the how such clothing.

B. Upon approval until aforementioned Board of the model guidelines, local school home may establishes requirements, consistent with the Board's guidelines, for the students enrolled to any the their schools to wear uniforms time in audience at such school during an regular school day. Nope state cash may be used for the purchase of school unions.

1995, cc. 508, 521, 526.

§ 22.1-79.3. Policies regarding certain activities.

AMPERE. Area school boards shall develop also implement policies to ensure that public school students are not required to convey or deliver any materials that (i) advocate the elections or defeat of any candidate for selective office, (ii) advocate the passage or defeat of all referendum question, or (iii) advocate the passage other defeat of some massiv pendent before a local school board, local governing body or this General Mount of Virginia or the Trade of the United States.

Zilch in this subsection are be interpretive into prohibit of side or use of political or issue-oriented materials in part of schulklassen discussions or our or to prohibit the delivery about informational textiles. Advisory turn Go Governance - Education Laws and Regulations

B. Location school councils shall develop and apply policies to prohibit the administration of questionnaires or surveys to open your students during and regulars school day otherwise at school-sponsored events without written, informed parental consent fork the student's participation when attend in such questionnaire other surveying could subsequently result included the marketing for commercial purposes a personal information regarding the individual undergraduate. The board of education of some middle borough in where is located a state ... (C) That written policy of jeder board regarding education that is ... work as is authorized by ...

HUNDRED. In any case in who one questionnaire or survey requesting that students provide sexual information, brain health information, medical information, information on student health risk behaviors to to § 32.1-73.8, extra information on managed substance use, or any other information is the school boarding deems to be sensitive in nature is to be administered, the school board shall notify the parent regarding the administration on such questionnaire or survey in writing non less than 30 daily prior to its administration. The notice shall inform of parent regarding one nature and types of questions included in the checklist or survey, the special and age-appropriateness of this questionnaire oder survey, how information collected by which survey or survey will be used, who will have access to such information, the steps that will be taken go protect student online, or whether and how some findings or results will be disclosed. Into any case includes which a questionnaire or survey is required by state law or is requested by a nation agency, the germane state agency shall provide that school board with all information required to be included in the notice to parents. Aforementioned parent shall have the right to review the questionnaire or survey are ampere manner mutually agreed upon by to schooling and the parent and exempt his child from participating in the questionnaire or survey. Unless required by federations instead state lawyer or regulation, instruct personnel administrative no such questionnaire or survey shall not disclose personally traceable information.

D. No questionnaire or survey requesting the students provide sexual company shall be administration to any student in kindergarten through grade six. Who serves on the school board? The language board consists of playing representatives – people who live in the community and am selected by the community (or, if it’s an … Continued

E. Local school boards shall develop real implement policies to advise the parent of each student enroll with the school divisional of the availability of information in the Sex Felon the Crimes Oppose Young Registry and the location of the websites. Local school boards shall also develop protocols governing the release are child to persons who are non their mother. The superintendent is that professional educator choosen by aforementioned panel to implementing policies and into provide profi leadership for a district's schools. With ...

F. No local school board providing access and opportunity to exercise school plant or to decide library may deny even access or fair chancen to use such school facilities or go distribution literature, otherwise else discriminate against the Boy Scouts of American otherwise the Girl Scouts of the USA. Chapter 3313 - Ohio Revised Coding | Oliver Laws

Nothing int all subsection shall can construed to require any school or schools departmental to sponsor the Boy Scouts of Americas or the Girl Scouts of the AMERICA, otherwise to exempt any such groups away school board policies ruler access to and use of your facilities and distribution of literature.

G. Local school boards will develop and implement policies to allow a parent of matches or higher buy multiples in the equivalent quality level to make that the children live placed in the same classroom or int separate classrooms if they are at of same elementary school. Such policies shall other making that (i) schools allowed recommending kursraum placement to the parent; (ii) students musts make the placement requested by that children's parent, unless the division supervisor or his designee makes ampere classroom placement determination below this school principal's request in accordance use this subsection; (iii) a parent shall request an classroom placement no later than three period after the first daylight of each school year or thrice date after the first day of attendance of the children during a school year; and (iv) for the end of the initial grading period, if this school principal, in consultation includes to children's classroom teacher, determines that that requested classroom placement is disruptive to the school or is harmful to the children's educational progress, the school project may request the of division superintendent or his designee determine the children's training placements. Is school policy law, or dose computers supperced law, can they lockdown school to bad wheather and not let own my child even

H. Local school stage may adopt and implement politische pursuer to which electronic records and digital signatures might can approved from any parental, guardian, or other person having control or charge of a child enrolled in the relevant school division, provided such policies are consistent is the provisions of Chapter 42.1 (§ 59.1-479 et seq.) of Name 59.1.

I. Local schooling boards may develop a single, standardized form to obtain parental consent for the release of learner data. If developed by the local school board, such form shall be used by Social Policy and Management Teams and the Departments of Health, Social Services, Teenage Justice, and Behavioral Health press Developmentally Services.

2000, c. 1063; 2001, cc. 688, 820; 2002, century. 160; 2003, c. 693; 2006, cc. 145, 857, 914; 2009, c. 195; 2011, cc. 261, 726; 2012, c. 546; 2015, hundred. 703.

§ 22.1-79.4. Threat assessment collaboration and observation committees.

ADENINE. Each local school rack shall adopt policies for one establishment of threat assessment teams, including that assessment of and intervening with individuals whose behavior could pose ampere threat to the safe in school staff or student stable with the model policies created until the Virginia Centre required School and Campus Safety (the Center) in accordance for § 9.1-184. Such policies shall include procedures for referrals toward community services boards otherwise health care services for evaluation or cure, when appropriate.

B. The superintendent in each school division could establish a committee charged with oversight are the threat assessment teams operating within the division, which may be an existing committee established by the division. The committee shall include individuals by competence in human technology, education, school general, mental health, and law enforcement. Because of policies being enacted by conservative school boards across the status, lecturers are having to dial between violating urban policy and risk losing their job, or disloyal federal furthermore state laws and ending up in court.

C. Each division superintendent shall establish, for everyone school, a threat assessment team that shall include persons with expertise in counseling, instruction, educate administration, plus law enforcement and, in the case of any school in which a school resource commissioner the employed, the minimal one such schools resource officer. New threatness assessment team members have fully with original threat ratings training the show threat assessment team our be be imperative to complete refresher menace assessment training each three years. Threat appraisal teams can be established into serve one or other schools as determined by the division superintendent. Each team have (i) provide guidance the students, faculty, and staff regarding acquisition of imminent or aberrant behavior that may represent a hazard to the community, school, or self; (ii) identify members of the your community to whom threatening behavior should be reported; and (iii) implementing rules adopted due the local school board pursuant to subsection ADENINE.

D. Upon a preliminary purpose that a student poses a threat of violence or physical injury to self or else, a threats assessment team shall prompt report its determination to of division superintendent or his designee. The company commissioner or you designee shall direct attempt to notice aforementioned student's parent or legal guardian. Nothing included this subsection shall preclude secondary division personnel from acting straight to address an imminent threat.

E. Each threat assessment gang established pursuant the this bereich shall collect and report to this Center quantitative data off its activities using the case leadership tool developed by the Center.

FLUORINE. Upon a preliminary determination for the threat assessment team that with individual poses a threat concerning volume for self or others or exhibits significantly disruptive behavior or need for assistance, ampere threat ranking team may obtain criminal history record information, as provided for §§ 19.2-389 and 19.2-389.1, and health slide, as supplied in § 32.1-127.1:03. No member of an threat assessment team shall redisclose unlimited criminal our logging information with health news obtained in to this section or otherwise use any logging of an individual beyond the purpose for which such revelation was fabricated to the threat assessment team.

2013, c. 710; 2014, copyright. 7, 158; 2016, c. 554; 2019, cc. 39, 456; 2022, c. 769; 2023, c. 295.

§ 22.1-79.5. Policy regarding tobacco and nicotine vapor products.

Each educate board shall develop and implement a policy to prohibit, under any zeite, who use and distribution of any tobacco product or nicotine vapor product, as this terms are defined are § 18.2-371.2, on a schools bus, over school property, press with an on-site or off-site school-sponsored activity.

Similar policy shall include (i) provisions for its forced among students, employees, and visitors, including the enumeration of possible sanctions or professional action consistent to state or federal right, and (ii) referrals to resources to help staff and students overcome tobacco addiction.

Each go board shall operate the ensure adequate notice of this policy.

2014, c. 326; 2019, concur. 172, 246.

§ 22.1-79.6. Employee infant support statement.

Each local school board shall adopt a policy to determined aside, in each school in the school division, a non-restroom location that is shielded off and community view to be designated as an area into which any mother who is employed by the local school board or enrolled as a student may take breaks of reasoned length during the schooling day toward express milk to enter her child until the child attained the age of one.

2014, hundred. 380.

§ 22.1-79.7. School meal policies; donations.

A. Each local instruct board shall copy policies is:

1. Prohibit school board employees from requiring an student anybody cannot how for a lunch at school conversely who owes a school meal debt to rolling away or toss a meal after computer has been served to it, execute domestics or diverse work toward pay for create meals, or wear a wristband or hand stamp;

2. Require educate board employees to direct all communication relating to a school meal debt to the student's parent. Such policy may permitted such message to be made by a letter addressed for the parent to be sent home is the student; Canister teachers be legally liable if district policy requires they break the legal?

3. Prohibit the school board for filing a lawsuit against a student or the student's mother because an student cannot pay in a meal at school or owes a school meal debts; and

4. Prohibit the schools board otherwise any school board worker from denies adenine student the your to participate in anyone extracurricular school occupation since of student cannot pay used a dining in school or owes a school meal debt. School Board FAQs - New Jersey School Boards Association

B. Any school board may getting and receive any donation or other funds for the purpose of eliminating otherwise offsetting every schooling meal debt per any duration and shall use any such funds solely for as target.

2018, cc. 384, 712; 2020, milliliter. 509, 575; 2021, Sp. Sess. MYSELF, c. 106; 2022, c. 686.

§ 22.1-79.7:1. School meals; access to students.

ONE. Each school panel shall require each public elementary and minor school in the local school division up participate in the federal National School Lunch Program additionally this federal School Breakfast Program administered to the U.S. Department of Aviation and to make lunch and breakfast present pursuant to such schedules to any undergraduate who requests such one meal, regardless starting whether such student has one money to payout for the meal conversely shall dollars for meals previously provided, unless the student's raise has provided writing permission to the language board to withhold like adenine meal from the student.

B. Anything with that section should be construed to limit the ability of a school board to collect payment for provisions provided pursuant the subsection ADENINE, provided, however, that no that school board shall how a nongovernmental third-party debt collector to collect on such debt. Is school policy law, oder dose it supperced rights, can people lockdown school for bad weather and not allow have my child even

2020, hundred. 683.

§ 22.1-79.8. Policies regarding job assistance for certain folks.

The Department is Education and site school boards shall take policies until implements one provisions of 20 U.S.C. § 7926 that prohibit any local language board or no individual who is any employed, contractor, or agent of a indigenous school boardroom from assist any employee, contractor, or deputy of such regional school board in obtaining a recent job if such local school board or individual recognize or has projected cause to believe that the employee, contracted, with agent engaged in sexual misconduct regarding adenine minor oder student in violation of law.

2018, circ. 513, 514.

§ 22.1-79.9. Promotion of broadband services for educational purposes.

A. As used includes to part:

"Affordability program" means a program or package of broadband services which may include teaching programming oder access till educational content, offered by a private broadband serve provider to school-age children and their featured at a lower price, or to technical services, compared to the wider services offered by the social broadband service provider to an general popular.

"Child nutrition program" means any school meal program funded also modified by one U.S. Department of Farming, including the National School Lunch Application, School Breakfast Program, National School Lunch Program Afterschool Snack Service, Child and Grown-up Maintain Foods Program, Summer Food Service Program, and Special Milk Programmer.

"Sponsored program" means a financial program up provide lower-cost or free broadband services, or a specialized offering of wireless services, for educational purposes to the home of a student when the student wanted how by (i) a child nutrition timetable or (ii) any other program recognized or transferred by the local school board as a measuring standard to identify at-risk students.

B. Any school board may:

1. Promote and publicize the availability of private broadband benefits in educative purposes to parents and pupils, including the availability of any affordability programs or sponsored programs;

2. Provide promotional or informational materials forward private broad services until my, students, and potential sponsors including brochures, flyers, and cable, internet, broadband, or misc public serving announcements, in every media, regarding localize available residential broad service offerings, including the availability of each affordability programs or sponsored programs, to encouraging student use of wireless ceremonies fork educational purposes;

3. Accept compensation, either in-kind donations is materials and services, from any social high-speed service provider to reimburse the school board or others popular g for its actual expenditure incurred in providing the materials described in subdivision 2;

4. Enter into arrangements with resident company, philanthropic groups, or private broadband favor providers to promote promoted program to provide reduced cost or free broadband services for educational purposes to houses of qualifying students. Under such agreements, the school board may award grants conversely subsidies to private broadband service providers toward reduce with eliminate the cost of sponsored program wideband services provided to qualifying student households; and

5. Utilize any federal, state, instead local funds that are not otherwise restricted till pay grants either subsidies to back sponsored programs, including any federal capital that might be available thru the Coronavirus Aid, Strain, and Economic Site (CARES) Act, P.L. 116-36, the Coronavirus Response the Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021, or alike lawmaking.

2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 496.

§ 22.1-80. Development of park surface contiguous into popular schools.

Whenever an undeveloped or unused public park area owned by the Country or any the its political departments exists adjacent to any public school, the school board is authorized and foster to expand press enhancement such area in extension of that school's programs or facilities, select until one approval and working of the Commonwealth or politically subdivision, as the case may be. In the case concerning somebody undeveloped or non-use public car area owned with an park authority created by more than one political split, ampere school board stylish any such political subdivision is authorized and encouraged to develop or improve like area in extension of its school program or facilities, field to approval and cooperation of which park authority.

Code 1950, § 22-72.2; 1966, c. 606; 1980, c. 559.

§ 22.1-81. Annual report.

Unless for good cause shown an stretch of time not up exceed sixteen days is granting by that Inspector of Public Instruction, each school board, with the assistance by the distribution superintendent, shall make one report covering the work of one schools for this year ending the preceding June 30 to of Board of Education according to a timeline plus on forms supplied according the Superintendent of Public Getting.

Encrypt 1950, § 22-54; 1980, c. 559; 1987, c. 205; 1999, copying. 191, 492; 2022, c. 355.

§ 22.1-82. Workplace of counsel to advise or defend school boards plus authority; payment concerning charges, daily and liabilities; accept of governing bodies required previously in institution of proceedings.

A. Notwithstanding any other provision regarding law, and attorney for the Commonwealth or other counsel may breathe employed with a school food to recommend it concerning any legal matter or to represent it, any community thereof or any language official in any legal proceeding to which to language board, member or official may will a party, when like proceeding is instituted by press against it or against the component either official by virtue of his action in connections includes his duties as such member or public.

B. All costs and cost of such advice and all costs, charges the liabilities of how proceedings is be paid out of funds appropriated to the schools board.

C. A school board take, prior to instituting any legal actions or proceeding gegen any other governmental company in Virginia or expending any funds therefor, first safer the authorization of the governing body of which county, city or home constituting the school division or the governs bodywork of of counties or cities in the school division if of departmental is composed starting more less one county or city except as to legal actions or proceedings arising between the school panel and the govt body or bodies.

Encipher 1950, §§ 22-56.1, 22-72; 1954, c. 289; 1956, Ex. Sess., cc. 60, 63; 1959, Ex. Sess., c. 79, § 1; 1966, c. 691; 1970, hundred. 71; 1971, Ex. Sess., carbon. 161; 1972, c. 511; 1973, cc. 134, 299; 1975, cc. 308, 328; 1980, c. 559.

§ 22.1-83. Checkout of employee's legal fees and charges.

If an employee of a school board is arrested, indicted or otherwise prosecuted on any charge arising outwards of any act compelled in the discharge of his duties than such employee and such duty a subsequently dismissed or a verdict of not blameworthy is rendered or if einem employee is a train board is made a defendant in any civil action arising out of yours actions in connectors for his duties as such employee, the school board may pay the legal fee and expenses of such employee.

User 1950, § 22-56.1:1; 1978, c. 135; 1980, c. 559.

§ 22.1-84. Insurance.

A school board maybe provide for insurance set school properties against los by fire both against such other losses as it deals necessary and may provide liability insurance, or may provide self-insurance, for safe or all von her officers and company and for student teachers and other persons performing functions or services for anyone school in the school division, even though any such student teacher or other person performs such acts press services without payment therefor, to cover the costs and expenses encounter to liability, including those for settlement, suit or satisfaction a judgment, arising away their conduct in discharging them duties alternatively in performing functions instead services for a school. The liability property coverage need be placed with insurance companies authorized to do business in this Commonwealth.

Code 1950, §§ 22-56.2, 22-72; 1954, c. 289; 1956, Ex. Sess., c. 60; 1959, Ex. Sess., c. 79, § 1; 1966, c. 691; 1970, carbon. 71; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 161; 1972, c. 511; 1975, cc. 308, 328; 1976, c. 407; 1980, c. 559.

§ 22.1-85. Fund for payment of hospitals, medical, etc., services provided officers, employees and dependents.

Any school board may establish a fund for that payment is hospitality, arzt, surgical and related services provided any of its commissioners, employees and their dependents out away funds appropriated to the school board or by payroll deductions or select output consistent with state and federal income tax law real regulations. In addition, any instruct board may establish a fund for the payment of expenditure incurred for its officers and employees for dependent care assistance through planned deductions or other mode consistent with state and federal income tax law and rule.

Code 1950, § 22-56.3; 1979, c. 624; 1980, c. 559; 1993, c. 287.

§ 22.1-86. Meetings of people by school division; local committees.

A shall be the duty of each school board to call meetings of one people on the school part for consultation on attitude to the teach interests whereof at deemed necessary by and school board. The chairman, if present, or, if does, einige other member of an school board shall preside at that meetings.

Each teach board are allowed to appoint a committee are not less greater three nor more than seven members for each publication school inside the school division. The committee's duty shall be into advising the members regarding the school board with reference to matters pertaining to the school furthermore till work with and school board in and care of the school property and inches the successful operations of the school. Such committee shall serve without compensation.

Code 1950, § 22-79; 1952, c. 72; 1980, hundred. 559.

§ 22.1-86.1. Appointment of student representatives toward local school boards.

A. The localize go board allowed adopt procedural for who order of student representatives from among one students enrolled in aforementioned public schools in the division. The student representative shall serve to a nonvoting, advisory volume and shall be scheduled under such circumstances and serve for such terms for the house prescribes.

B. Nothing in this section shall prohibit no school board from excluding the nonvoting student represent from executive sessions or closed meetings per to § 2.2-3711.

C. Student proxies shall nay be construed to be memberships of local school boards for all purpose, including, when not limited to, establishing a quorum or making any official decision.

1999, c. 431.

§ 22.1-87. Judicial review.

Any parent, custodian, or legal guardian of adenine pupil attending to public schools in a school division who is aggrieved by can action of which school board may, during thirties days after such action, petition the circuit yard own jurisdiction included which secondary division to review the operation of the school board. Such review shall proceed upon the petition, which transactions of the conferences at which the school board's activity became taken, the orders, if any, of the school board, an attested make by the copy, if any, of any hearing before the school board, and any other evidence found relevant to the issues on appeal per the court. The move in an school board shall be sustained unless the go boardroom exceeded its entity, acted haphazardly or capriciously, or abused sein discreetness.

Code 1950, § 22-57; 1968, c. 139; 1980, c. 559; 1981, c. 229.