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This law was first created in 2022. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 485<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":85010,"section_number":"22.1-26","catch_line":"Joint and regional schools; regional public charter schools","order_by":null,"url":"\/22.1-26\/"}],"permalink":{"id":183797,"object_type":"law","relational_id":85783,"identifier":"22.1-26.2","token":"22.1\/4\/22.1-26.2","url":"\/22.1-26.2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/22.1-26.2\/","token":"22.1\/4\/22.1-26.2","dublin_core":{"Title":"Academic year Governor’s Schools; certain practices prohibited and required","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 22.1-26.2","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> No academic year Governor’s School or governing board<\/span> member, director, administrator, or employee thereof shall discriminate against any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the process of admitting students to such school. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> Each local school board<\/span> that jointly manages and controls a regional academic year Governor’s school pursuant to § 22.1-26<\/a> shall collaborate to ensure that each public middle school<\/span> that is eligible to send students to attend such Governor’s school offers coursework, curriculum, and instruction that is comparable in content and in rigor in order<\/span> to provide each student in each such middle school<\/span> with the opportunity to gain admission to and excel academically at such Governor’s school. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nACADEMIC YEAR GOVERNOR’S SCHOOLS; CERTAIN PRACTICES PROHIBITED AND\nREQUIRED (\u00a7 22.1-26.2)\n\nA. No academic year Governor’s School or governing board member, director,\nadministrator, or employee thereof shall discriminate against any individual or\ngroup on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the\nprocess of admitting students to such school.\n\nB. Each local school board that jointly manages and controls a regional academic\nyear Governor’s school pursuant to § 22.1-26 shall collaborate to\nensure that each public middle school that is eligible to send students to\nattend such Governor’s school offers coursework, curriculum, and\ninstruction that is comparable in content and in rigor in order to provide each\nstudent in each such middle school with the opportunity to gain admission to and\nexcel academically at such Governor’s school.\n\nHISTORY: 2022, c. 485.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}