COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
P.O. BOX 2120
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 23218-2120
SUPTS. MEMO NO. 3
January 30, 2004
ADMINISTRATIVE
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TO: |
Division
Superintendents |
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FROM: |
Jo Lynne
DeMary Superintendent
of Public Instruction |
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SUBJECT: |
Submission
of Division Remediation Plan for Fiscal Year 2004-2005, Due Date: March 1, 2004 |
Regulation 8-VAC-20-630 (Attachment A) provides standards
for state-funded remedial programs and requires school divisions to submit a
remediation plan, record and report specified data pertaining to their
state-funded remedial programs, maintain an individual student record
indicating the students expected remediation goal, and annually evaluate the
success of those programs.
The 2003 Session of the General Assembly adopted a
language amendment to the 2002-2004 biennial budget that removed the provision
allowing Standards of Learning remediation funding to be used as a block grant,
without restrictions or reporting requirements. This change restored the annual
reporting requirements for these funds that were established by the Code of Virginia (Title 22.1-199.2) and
Board of Education regulation (8-VAC-20-630).
The required
remediation plan (Attachment B) must be submitted, electronically to ksmith@mail.vak12ed.edu, for approval
by the Virginia Board of Education no later than March 1, 2004.
As stated above, the
regulation requires that, annually, each local school division shall report
data pertaining to its state-funded program to the Department of
Education. This report, due September
15, 2004, will include data for remediation programs conducted during the
2003-2004 school year, as well as remedial summer school for 2003.
The
department is developing a revised electronic form for this report. Last year,
both large and small divisions chose to report by division rather than by
individual schools. For this reason,
the report will reflect only division-level data. A draft copy of the report
(Attachment C) is available in Word format at the following website:
http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Instruction/remediationreg.html
If you should have any questions regarding the
implementation of this regulation, please contact Kathleen
Smith (mailto:ksmith@mail.vak12ed.edu), remediation
program
specialist, at (804) 786-5819.
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Attachments
/administrators/superintendents_memos/2004/adm003a.pdf
/administrators/superintendents_memos/2004/adm003b.doc
/administrators/superintendents_memos/2004/adm003c.xls