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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 Standards of Learning (SOL) is a public school standardized testing program in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It sets forth learning and achievement expectations for core subjects for grades K-12 in Virginia's Public Schools. The standards represent what many teachers, school administrators, parents, and business and community leaders ...
List of Virginia superintendents of public instruction from 1870 – till date. No. Portrait Name (Birth–Death) Term Governor 1 William Henry Ruffner (1824–1908) March 5, 1870 – March 15, 1882 [5] 2 Richard Ratcliffe Farr (1845–1892) March 15, 1882 – March 15, 1886: William E. Cameron: 3 John L. Buchanan: March 15, 1886 – January 1 ...
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The only independent government school district under Virginia law is the Eastern Virginia Medical College. All of the K-12 school districts are classified as dependent public school systems by the U.S. Census Bureau . [ 2 ]
This is a list of colleges and universities in the U.S. state of Virginia. The oldest college or university in Virginia is The College of William and Mary, founded in 1693. In 2010, the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine became the newest. The largest institution is Liberty University, with over 143,000 students. [1]
Lisa Coons is an American educator serving as the Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction since April 2023. She was previously the chief academic officer of the Tennessee Department of Education from June 2019 to April 2023.
Under the Virginia Constitution of 1901, the secretary of the Commonwealth was an elected post, along with the governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general. Under Virginia's current constitution, enacted in 1971, and with the creation of the Governor's Cabinet during the administration of Governor A. Linwood Holton Jr. , the secretary of ...