DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
P.O.
SUPTS. MEMO NO. 27
July 14, 2006
ADMINISTRATIVE
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TO: |
Division
Superintendents |
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FROM: |
Billy K. Cannaday, Jr. Superintendent
of Public Instruction |
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SUBJECT: |
2005-2006
Driver Education Status Questionnaire and 2006-2007 Fee for the Laboratory
Phase of Driver Education |
The driver education laboratory information
submitted on the attached status questionnaire will be used to ensure program
compliance in accordance with 22.1-205 of the Code of Virginia and to identify school divisions eligible to
receive Driver Education Funds in school year 2006-2007.
Please ask your principals to complete
Attachment A, the 2005-2006 Status Questionnaire form, and send it to the appropriate
person in your finance office for use in completing Attachment B.
Item 135.C.5.e.2, Chapter 3, 2006
To ensure compliance with state regulations, please
complete the appropriate sections of Attachment B. To
request approval to charge a fee for behind-the-wheel driver education taught
during the 2006-2007 regular school year, please complete pages one and two of
Attachment B. To report that your school
division will not charge a fee for behind-the-wheel driver education during the
regular 2006-2007 school term, please complete and return page one of
Attachment B. The fee charged for fiscal
year 2007 must not exceed the difference between the average per pupil cost for
fiscal year 2006 and the calculated per pupil reimbursement from basic aid for
fiscal year 2006. Attachment C provides
basic aid payments distributed for behind-the-wheel driver education for fiscal
year 2006.
To ensure compliance with state regulations, all
school divisions should submit Attachments A and B no
later than August 11, 2006.
If you have any questions and/or
concerns about charging a fee for the laboratory phase of driver education,
please contact Marie Williams, director of accounting, by e-mail at Marie.Williams@doe.virginia.gov,
or by telephone at (804) 225-2040. If
you have any other questions related to driver education, please contact
Vanessa Wigand, principal specialist for health, physical education, and driver
education, Office of Middle and High School Instruction, by e-mail at Vanessa.Wigand@doe.virginia.gov,
or by telephone at (804) 225-3300.
PIW/VCW/yba
Attachments
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/administrators/superintendents_memos/2006/adm027a.doc
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/administrators/superintendents_memos/2006/adm027b.doc
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/administrators/superintendents_memos/2006/adm027c.pdf