School Board of the City of Virginia Beach
Policy 7-19
COMMUNITY RELATIONS
Community Involvement/Volunteers: School/Business/Military Partnerships
A. Partners in Education (PIE)
A Partners in Education program designed to pair individual public schools with business, military or other public or private agencies is established in the school division. The program's major objective shall be to strengthen instruction in academic and technical skills so as to enrich the educational program through the talent, ideas and special human resources that can be provided by personnel in the participating organizations.
B. Coordination
The division-wide coordination of the business/military partnerships shall be assigned to personnel in the Department of Media and Communications Development/Office of Community Relations as designated by the Superintendent. The principal at each school shall designate a staff member as the school’s partnership coordinator.
Editor’s Note
See school division website: www.vbschools.com/community involvement.
Legal Reference:
Virginia Board of Education Regulations, Accreditation of Public Schools in Virginia. (January 1993)
Adopted by School Board: August 21, 1980
Amended by School Board: July 16, 1991
Amended by School Board: October 20, 1992
Amended by School Board: May 25, 2004