                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DISMISSAL OF TEACHER; GROUNDS (§ 22.1-307)

Teachers may be dismissed for incompetency, immorality, noncompliance with
school laws and regulations, disability as shown by competent medical evidence
when in compliance with federal law, conviction of a felony or a crime of moral
turpitude, or other good and just cause. A teacher shall be dismissed if such
teacher is or becomes the subject of a founded complaint of child abuse and
neglect, pursuant to § 63.2-1505, and after all rights to any administrative
appeal provided by § 63.2-1526 have been exhausted. The fact of such finding,
after all rights to any administrative appeal provided by § 63.2-1526 have been
exhausted, shall be grounds for the local school division to recommend that the
Board of Education revoke such person&#8217;s license to teach. No teacher shall
be dismissed or placed on probation solely on the basis of the teacher&#8217;s
refusal to submit to a polygraph examination requested by the school board.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 22-217.5; 1968, c. 691; 1975, c. 308; 1980, c. 559; 1993,
c. 498; 1996, c. 961; 2008, c. 555; 2013, cc. 588, 650; 2017, c. 240; 2020, cc.
56, 168.