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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>60392</law_id><section_number>22.1-216</section_number><catch_line>Use of public or private facilities and personnel under contract for special education</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>22.1-221</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="22.1">Education</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="13">Programs, Courses of Instruction and Textbooks</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Special Education</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A <span class="dictionary">school board</span> may provide <span class="dictionary">special education</span> for <span class="dictionary">children with disabilities</span> either directly with its own facilities and personnel or under <span class="dictionary">contract</span> with another school division or divisions or any other public or private nonsectarian school, agency or institution licensed or certified by the Board of Education or by a licensing authority in the state where the facility is located. <span class="dictionary">Special education</span> for children below the compulsory school attendance age may be provided in nonsectarian child-day programs licensed in accordance with state <span class="dictionary">law</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 22-10.6; 1974, c. 480; 1980, c. 559; 1994, cc. 376, 854; 1996, c. 133.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
