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Board approves regulatory changes, three school-construction loans and new endorsement programs
Summary
The board unanimously approved a package of regulatory and administrative items: alignment of private-school restraint/seclusion rules, release of three Literary Fund loans (Sussex, Hampton, Giles), procedural regulation updates (transportation preventive-maintenance guidance) and multiple new educator endorsement programs recommended by ABTEL.
At the meeting the Virginia Board of Education approved a series of regulatory and administrative actions moved as final or waived first review. The actions cover regulatory alignment, school-construction financing and educator-preparation program endorsements.
Regulatory and policy updates: The board approved an update aligning regulations governing private schools for students with disabilities to public-school requirements for restraint and seclusion, as directed by the budget item. The board also approved minor regulatory edits to pupil-transportation rules and added a preventive-maintenance manual as a guidance document on the department’s Town Hall site to…
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