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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>83901</law_id><section_number>22.1-277.2:2</section_number><catch_line>Alternative education program data</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="22.1">Education</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="14">Pupils</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Discipline</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Education shall annually collect from each <span class="dictionary">school board</span> and publish on its website data on alternative education programs for students who have been suspended, expelled, or otherwise precluded from attendance at school. Such data shall (i) be published in a manner that protects the identities of individual students; (ii) be disaggregated by local school division and by student race, ethnicity, gender, and disability; and (iii) include:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The number of students enrolled in alternative education programs pursuant to each of the five clauses set forth in subsection A of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Disciplinary authority of school boards under certain circumstances; alternative education program" href="/22.1-277.2_1/">22.1-277.2:1</a>; <a id="paragraph-300689" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/22.1-277.2_2/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The number of students enrolled in alternative education programs who have received (i) a short-term suspension, (ii) a long-term suspension, or (iii) an expulsion; <a id="paragraph-300690" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/22.1-277.2_2/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> The current availability of various categories of alternative education programs available to all students and not solely special education students, including full-day programs with on-site, in-school teacher instruction; full-day programs with off-site, out-of-school teacher instruction; primarily virtual instruction; home-based or home-bound instruction; partial-day instruction; and any other category that the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Education may identify; <a id="paragraph-300691" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/22.1-277.2_2/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> The average length of enrollment in an alternative education program per program during each school year; <a id="paragraph-300692" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/22.1-277.2_2/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="5"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> The number of students who transition within the same school year from an alternative education program back into the school at which they were enrolled immediately preceding enrollment in the alternative education program; and <a id="paragraph-300693" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/22.1-277.2_2/#5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="6"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> Relevant student achievement data, as determined by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Education. <a id="paragraph-300694" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/22.1-277.2_2/#6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2019, cc. 123, 232.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
