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The Virginia Department of Education is the state education agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia.It is headquartered in the James Monroe Building in Richmond. [1] The department is headed by the Secretary of Education (currently Aimee Guidera), who is a member of the Virginia Governor's Cabinet, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction (currently Lisa Coons), a position that is also ...
The Virginia state constitution gives the state legislature, the Virginia General Assembly, the primary governing role over public education in the state. [1] Thus, the state board of education is merely an administrative agency which carries out the laws, policies, and programs established by the legislature.
The Virginia Constitution [2] states that the Superintendent be “an experienced educator.” [3] The Superintendent of Public Instruction serves for a term coincident with the Governor making the appointment. The duties of the Superintendent of Public Instruction are addressed in Title 22.1, Chapter 3 of the Code of Virginia. [4]
Education in Virginia addresses the needs of students from pre-kindergarten through adult education.Virginia's educational system consistently ranks in the top ten states on the U.S. Department of Education's National Assessment of Educational Progress, with Virginia students outperforming the average in almost all subject areas and grade levels tested. [1]
The U.S. Department of Education is launching an investigation into several school districts in northern Virginia accused of ... state and federal anti-discrimination laws and binding court ...
The public school system in Fairfax County, Virginia, was created following the end of the Civil War with the adoption by Virginia of the Reconstruction-era state constitution in 1870, which provided for the first time that free public education was a constitutional right. The first superintendent of schools for Fairfax County was Thomas M ...
A Superintendent of Schools (Division Superintendent) is customarily the highest-ranking employee of a school division. All listings are for city or county school divisions, except: The Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools, jointly administered by the City of Williamsburg and James City County, and
In 1998, the first year of SOL testing, only 2 percent of the Virginia Commonwealth's public schools met the standard for full accreditation. The percentage of schools meeting the state's accreditation standards increased to 6.5 percent in 1999, 22 percent in 2000, 40 percent in 2001, 64 percent in 2002, 78 percent in 2003, and 84 percent in 2004.