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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 8. Education
Agency 20. State Board of Education
Chapter 441. Regulations Governing the Employment of Professional Personnel
12/27/2024

8VAC20-441-100. Eligibility for continuing contract.

A. Only persons regularly employed full time by a school board who hold a valid license as teachers, assistant principals, principals, or supervisors shall be eligible for continuing contract status.

B. Any teacher hired on or after July 1, 2001, shall be required, as a condition of achieving continuing contract status, to have successfully completed training in instructional strategies and techniques for intervention for or remediation of students who fail or are at risk of failing the Standards of Learning assessments. Local school divisions shall be required to provide such training at no cost to teachers employed in their division. In the event a local school division fails to offer such training in a timely manner, no teacher will be denied continuing contract status for failure to obtain such training.

Statutory Authority

§§ 22.1-16 and 22.1-302 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 34, Issue 6, eff. December 13, 2017.

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