                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT OF TEACHERS (§ 22.1-349)

For the purpose of retirement and other statutory benefits, teachers employed as
full-time instructional personnel by the Board of Visitors shall be deemed to be
full-time state personnel and shall receive the same benefits as are accorded
all other full-time state personnel. The Board of Visitors shall require the
teachers at the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind to comply with the
provisions of §§ 22.1-298.1, 22.1-299, and 22.1-303. The Board of Visitors
shall require any applicant for employment as full-time instructional personnel
or other position requiring as a condition of employment direct contact with
students to submit to a fingerprinting and criminal history record check through
the Central Criminal Records Exchange to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in
accordance with the provisions of §§ 22.1-296 and 22.1-296.1. The Board of
Visitors shall be deemed a governmental entity for the purpose of receiving from
the Central Criminal Records Exchange any criminal history record information
pertaining to an application for employment. Contracts for the employment of
teachers shall be in the form prescribed by the school board of the school
division in which the school is located. In cases of nonrenewal of contracts of
probationary teachers, the decisions shall be appealable to the Board of
Visitors. For all other purposes, the Virginia Personnel Act (§ 2.2-2900 et
seq.) shall apply to the teachers of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the
Blind.
		The Board of Visitors shall establish salary schedules for all professional
personnel that are competitive with those in effect for the school divisions in
which the facility is located.

HISTORY: 1984, c. 413; 1993, c. 2; 2006, cc. 27, 349; 2009, c. 210; 2023, c.
670.