                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EMPLOYMENT OF PROFESSIONAL, LICENSED PERSONNEL (§ 22.1-212.13)

A. At the discretion of the local school board, charter school personnel may be
employees of the local school board, or boards, granting the charter. Any
personnel not employed by the local school board shall remain subject to the
provisions of &#xA7;&#xA7; 22.1-296.1, 22.1-296.2, and 22.1-296.4.

B. Professional, licensed education personnel may volunteer for assignment to a
public charter school. Assignment in a public charter school shall be for one
contract year. Upon request of the employee and the recommendation of the
management committee of the public charter school, reassignment to the public
charter school shall occur on an annual basis.

C. At the completion of each contract year, professional, licensed education
personnel who request assignment to a public noncharter school in the relevant
school division or who are not recommended for reassignment in the public
charter school, other than for the grounds cited in &#xA7; 22.1-307, shall be
guaranteed an involuntary transfer to a public noncharter school in the school
division according to the employment policies of the school division.

D. Professional, licensed personnel of a public charter school shall be granted
the same employment benefits given to professional, licensed personnel in public
noncharter schools in accordance with the policies of the relevant school board
or boards.

E. School boards may employ such health, mental health, social services, and
other related personnel to serve in residential charter schools for at-risk
pupils as set forth in the charter agreement between such school board and the
charter school; however, nothing herein shall require a school board to fund the
residential or other services provided by a residential charter school.

HISTORY: 1998, cc. 748, 890; 2000, cc. 631, 712, 1028; 2012, cc. 702, 720; 2016,
c. 770.