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Virginia Beach City Public Schools
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P.O. Box 6038
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23456-0038
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Policies and Regulations

School Board of the City of Virginia Beach
Policy 7-22

COMMUNITY RELATIONS

Citizens' Advisory Committees: Special Education Advisory Committee

A special education advisory committee shall be activated by the school board as mandated in the legal reference to this policy.

Legal Reference:

Virginia Board of Education Regulations, Special Education Programs for Handicapped Children and Youth in Virginia, § 3.7.

C.  Local Advisory Committee

1.  There shall be a local advisory committee for special education appointed by each local school board to advise the school board through the division superintendent.

2.  Local school division personnel shall serve only as consultants to the committee.

3.  Parents of handicapped children and youth shall serve on the Local Advisory Committee.

4.  The functions of the local advisory committee shall be as follows:

 

a.  Advise the local school division of unmet needs in the education of handicapped children;

b.  Assist the local school division in the formulation and development of long-range plans designed to provide needed educational services for handicapped children;

c.  Participate in the development of priorities and strategies for meeting the identified needs of handicapped children;

d.  Submit periodic reports and recommendations regarding the education of handicapped children to the division superintendent for transmission to the local school board; and

e.  Assist the local school division in interpreting plans to the community for meeting the special needs of handicapped children for educational services.

5.  Public notice shall be published annually listing the names of committee members and including a description of ways in which interested parties may express their views to the committee.

6.  Committee meetings shall be held at least quarterly and shall be open to the public.

7.  Public notice of each meeting shall be made at least two weeks prior to the date of the meeting.

8.  One meeting shall be designated specifically for the review of the Annual Special Education Plan/Report and Funding Applications 30 calendar days prior to submission to the local school board . . . (January 1993)

 

Adopted by School Board:  October 20, 1992