8 Va. Admin. Code § 20-440-90

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 22, June 17, 2024

Section 8VAC20-440-90 - Eligibility for continuing contract

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

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 said training at no cost to teachers employed in their division. In the event a local school division fails to offer said training in a timely manner, no teacher will be denied continuing contract status for failure to obtain such training.

Derived from VR 270-01-0042:1 § 1.9, eff. April 20, 1994; amended, Virginia Register Volume 19, Issue 12, eff. March 28, 2003.

Statutory Authority

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