The Dinwiddie County School Board on its December meeting approved multiple operational actions including a contract to bring in a third-party tutoring service and an across-the-board increase in daily substitute pay.

Superintendent Doctor Clay presented a cooperative-procurement agreement with "TutorEd by University Instructors" to provide in-person tutors at Dinwiddie Middle School and Sutherland Elementary. Clay said the service handles hiring, background checks and training and cited vendor data that 93% of students who attended 26 or more tutoring sessions showed math-score gains and 77% showed reading gains. Clay said the slides showed a total cost as $282,000 and elsewhere $282,014; the board approved entering into the agreement using state "All In" funding that expires in June 2026. "They are ready to begin the process pending your approval this evening," Clay said.

The board moved and seconded a motion to enter the agreement; the motion was approved by voice vote with all members recorded as voting in favor on the meeting record.

Also on the consent and action agenda, the board approved a personnel report, accepted the expenditure reports and approved minutes from the Nov. 11, 2025 meeting. In student-discipline business, the board voted to uphold the administration's recommendation to expel student ED-12/25-1; a second expulsion for ED-12/25-2 was approved with one abstention recorded.

Separately, a presenter recommended and the board approved increases to substitute daily rates to align with a state minimum-wage change set to take effect Jan. 1 (the presenter cited an increase from $12.41 to $12.77). The immediate adjustments approved were: raises for substitutes without degrees (from $95 to $100 daily), an increase for substitutes with a bachelor's degree (from $110 to $125 daily), and a clerical substitute increase (from $95 to $105 daily). The presenter said further rate reviews for long-term substitutes would be handled during the budget process.

Board members voiced general support for the tutoring program as an additional resource for two schools that have struggled to hire local tutors and thanked staff for preparing contract materials. Votes on motions were recorded by voice in the public meeting; specific roll-call votes by member name were not read into the record for these items in the transcript.

The meeting record shows the board followed required procedural steps for certification of a previously held closed session under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and Code section 2.2-3712, and adjourned after routine board and student-representative remarks.

What happens next: the TutorEd contract will proceed to vendor onboarding and recruiting for local tutors for the two identified schools, and the substitute-rate changes take effect to align immediate pay with the new minimum wage while the division considers longer-term pay adjustments during the upcoming budget process.