Code of Virginia - Title 22.1 Education - Chapter 15 Teachers, Officers And Employees

22.1-289.1 Teacher compensation; biennial review required
It is a goal of the Commonwealth that its public school teachers be compensated at a rate that is competitive in order to attract and ...
22.1-289.2 Compensation of public school employees called to active duty military service
Public school employees whose active duty service with the regular armed forces of the United States or the National Guard or other reserve component has ...
22.1-290 Board authorized to award teaching scholarship loans
The Board of Education may, out of such funds as may be appropriated for the purpose, provide for the awarding of teaching scholarship loans to ...
22.1-290.01 Virginia Teaching Scholarship Loan Program established; purpose; Board of Education to administer P...
A. With such funds as may be appropriated for this purpose and any gifts, donations, grants, bequests, and other funds that may be received on ...
22.1-290.1 Clinical faculty programs
A. As used in this section, unless the context requires a different meaning: "Clinical faculty member" means a licensed public or private school teacher who ...
22.1-291 Duty-Free Lunch Incentive Fund; duty-free lunch period for teachers
A Duty-Free Lunch Incentive Fund shall be established from all funds appropriated to the Board of Education for funding the provision of duty-free lunch periods ...
22.1-291.1 Planning time for school teachers
Each school board shall seek to ensure that all elementary school teachers in its employment are provided at least three hours during the students' school ...
22.1-291.2 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 2004, c. 872, cl. 7, effective May 4, 2005. ...
22.1-291.3 Notice of duty to report child abuse or neglect
Each public school board and each administrator of every private or parochial school shall post, in each of their schools, a notice, pursuant to § ...
22.1-292 Penalties on officers and teachers
Any division superintendent, member of a school board or other school officer or any principal or teacher in a public school violating any provision of ...
22.1-292.1 Violation of test security procedures; revocation of license
A. The Board of Education may suspend or revoke the administrative or teaching license it has issued to any person who commits any of the ...
22.1-292.2 Suspension or revocation of license for procuring, selling, or administering anabolic steroid...
A. The Board of Education shall suspend or revoke the administrative or teaching license it has issued to any person who knowingly and willfully with ...
22.1-293 School boards authorized to employ principals and assistant principals; license required; powers an...
A. A school board, upon recommendation of the division superintendent, may employ principals and assistant principals. Persons employed in these positions shall hold licenses as ...
22.1-294 Probationary terms of service for principals, assistant principals and supervisors; evaluation; rea...
A. A person employed as a principal, assistant principal or supervisor, including a person who has previously achieved continuing contract status as a teacher, shall ...
22.1-295 Employment of teachers
A. The teachers in the public schools of a school division shall be employed and placed in appropriate schools by the school board upon recommendation ...
22.1-295.1 Employee personnel files; maintenance of employee records
A. Personnel files of all school board employees may be produced and maintained in digital or paper format. B. Information determined to be unfounded after ...
22.1-296 Payment of employees; reimbursement for private transportation; certain sick leave policie...
A. Each school board shall provide for the payment of teachers, principals, assistant principals and other employees monthly, semi-monthly or biweekly, as may be determined ...
22.1-296.1 Data on convictions for certain crimes and child abuse and neglect required; penalty
A. As a condition of employment for all of its public school employees, whether full-time or part-time, permanent, or temporary, every school board shall require ...
22.1-296.2 Fingerprinting required; reciprocity permitted
A. As a condition of employment, the school boards of the Commonwealth shall require any applicant who is offered or accepts employment after July 1, ...
22.1-296.3 Certain private school employees subject to fingerprinting and criminal records checks
A. As a condition of employment, the governing boards or administrators of private or religious elementary or secondary schools which are accredited by a statewide ...
22.1-296.4 Child abuse and neglect data required
A. On and after July 1, 1997, every school board shall require, as a condition of employment, that any applicant who is offered or accepts ...
22.1-297 Assignment of teachers, principals and assistant principals by superintendent
A division superintendent shall have authority to assign to their respective positions in the school wherein they have been placed by the school board all ...
22.1-298 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 2006, cc. 27 and 349, cl. 2. ...
22.1-298.1 Regulations governing licensure
A. As used in this section: "Alternate route to licensure" means a nontraditional route to teacher licensure available to individuals who meet the criteria specified ...
22.1-298.2 Regulations governing education preparation programs
A. As used in this section: "Assessment of basic skills" means an assessment prescribed by the Board of Education that an individual must take prior ...
22.1-299 License required of teachers
No teacher shall be regularly employed by a school board or paid from public funds unless such teacher holds a license or provisional license issued ...
22.1-299.1 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 1990, c. 970. ...
22.1-299.2 National Teacher Certification Incentive Reward Program and Fund
A. From such funds as may be appropriated for such purpose and from such gifts, donations, grants, bequests, and other funds as may be received ...
22.1-299.3 Three-year local eligibility license
A. Local school boards shall be authorized, upon recommendation of the local superintendent, to issue a valid three-year nonrenewable local eligibility license to classroom teacher ...
22.1-300 Tuberculosis certificate
As a condition to employment, every public school employee, including without limitation teachers, cafeteria workers, janitors and bus drivers, shall submit a certificate signed by ...
22.1-301 Costs of medical examinations and of furnishing medical records
It shall be unlawful for any school board to require any instructional employee to pay the costs of a medical examination or the cost of ...
22.1-302 Written contracts required; execution of contracts; qualifications of temporarily employed teachers...
A. A written contract, in a form prescribed by the Board of Education, shall be made by the school board with each teacher employed by ...
22.1-303 Probationary terms of service for teachers
A. A probationary term of service for three years in the same school division shall be required before a teacher is issued a continuing contract. ...
22.1-303.1 Immunity from civil liability for certain individuals
Any teacher who, in good faith, participates in conducting a peer review of another teacher or a person who conducts a review of a teacher ...
22.1-304 Reemployment of teacher who has not achieved continuing contract status; effect of continuing contr...
A. If a teacher who has not achieved continuing contract status receives notice of reemployment, he must accept or reject in writing within 15 days ...
22.1-305 Nonrenewal of contract of probationary teacher
A. Before a division superintendent recommends to the school board nonrenewal of the contract of a teacher who has not achieved continuing contract status, the ...
22.1-305.1 Mentor teacher programs
A. The Board of Education shall establish, from such funds as may be appropriated by the General Assembly, mentor teacher programs utilizing specially trained public ...
22.1-305.2 Advisory Board on Teacher Education and Licensure
There is hereby established the Advisory Board on Teacher Education and Licensure which shall consist of nineteen members to be appointed by the Board of ...
22.1-306 Definitions
As used in this article: "Grievance" means a complaint or dispute by a teacher relating to his or her employment including, but not necessarily limited ...
22.1-307 Dismissal, etc., of teacher; grounds
A. Teachers may be dismissed or placed on probation for incompetency, immorality, noncompliance with school laws and regulations, disability as shown by competent medical evidence ...
22.1-308 Grievance procedure
A. The Board of Education shall prescribe a grievance procedure which shall include the following: 1. Except in the case of dismissal or placing on ...
22.1-309 Notice to teacher of recommendation of dismissal or placing on probation; school board not to consi...
In the event a division superintendent determines to recommend dismissal of any teacher or the placing on probation of a teacher on continuing contract, written ...
22.1-310 Election of hearing before fact-finding panel prior to decision of school board
A. In the event a grievance, other than a grievance to which the provisions of § 22.1-309 are applicable, is not settled at a lower ...
22.1-311 Hearing before school board
The hearing before the school board, which shall be private unless the teacher requests a public one, must be set within 30 days of the ...
22.1-312 Hearing before fact-finding panel
A. In the event that a hearing before a fact-finding panel is requested, a three-member panel shall be selected by the following method. The teacher ...
22.1-313 Decision of school board; generally
A. The school board shall retain its exclusive final authority over matters concerning employment and supervision of its personnel, including dismissals, suspensions and placing on ...
22.1-314 Decision of school board; issue of grievability; appeal
Decisions regarding whether or not a matter is grievable shall be made by the school board at the request of the school division administration or ...
22.1-315 Grounds and procedure for suspension
A. A teacher or other public school employee, whether full-time or part-time, permanent, or temporary, may be suspended for good and just cause when the ...
22.1-316 Agreement entered into and enacted into law; form of agreement
The Interstate Agreement on Qualification of Educational Personnel is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all jurisdictions legally joined therein in the form ...
22.1-317 Superintendent of Public Instruction to be "designated state official."
The "designated state official" for this Commonwealth for the purposes of the Interstate Agreement on Qualification of Educational Personnel shall be the Superintendent of Public ...
22.1-318 Filing and publication of contracts made pursuant to Agreement
True copies of all contracts made on behalf of this Commonwealth pursuant to the Interstate Agreement on Qualification of Educational Personnel shall be kept on ...

Last modified: April 3, 2009