                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS (§ 37.2-312)

The Department shall be responsible for providing for education and training of
school-age individuals in state facilities. The Board of Education shall
supervise the education and training provided to school-age individuals in
training centers, and shall provide for and direct the education for school-age
individuals in state hospitals in cooperation with the Department. In
discharging this responsibility, the Department shall exercise leadership by:
(i) coordinating actions with the Department of Education and state facilities
to ensure consistency between treatment and educational priorities in the policy
and implementation of direct services for school-age individuals in state
facilities; (ii) ensuring that comparable resources especially in career and
technical education, appropriate to the students&#8217; disabilities and needs,
are available in all state facilities; (iii) monitoring the quality of the
instruction provided to all school-age individuals in state facilities; (iv)
requiring state facility directors to evaluate the performance of the education
directors pursuant to guidelines developed in cooperation with the Board of
Education; (v) developing and implementing, in cooperation with the Department
of Education, programs to ensure that the educational and treatment needs of
children with dual diagnoses in state facilities are met; (vi) taking an active
role with the Department of Education to evaluate the effectiveness of prevalent
educational models in state facilities; and (vii) designing a mechanism for
maintaining constant direct contact and the sharing of ideas, approaches, and
innovations between the education directors and teachers whether they are
employees of local school divisions or of the Commonwealth who are educating
school-age individuals in state facilities.

HISTORY: 1985, c. 207, § 37.1-10.01; 2001, c. 483; 2005, c. 716; 2012, cc. 476,
507.