DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
P.O.
SUPTS. MEMO NO. 40
August 31, 2007
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: |
2006-2007 Driver Education Status
Questionnaire and 2007-2008 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 2007-2008.
Please ask your principals to complete
Attachment A, the 2006-2007 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 847, 2007
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 2007-2008 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 2007-2008
school term, please complete and return page one of Attachment B. The fee charged for fiscal year 2008, must
not exceed the difference between the average per pupil cost for fiscal year 2007, and the calculated per pupil reimbursement from
basic aid for fiscal year 2007.
Attachment C provides basic aid payments distributed for
behind-the-wheel driver education for fiscal year 2007.
To ensure compliance with state regulations,
all school divisions should submit Attachments A and
B no later than September 21, 2007.
As you may know, the 2007 General
Assembly amended 22.1-205 of the Code of
Virginia to include: In
addition to the fee approved by the Board of Education pursuant to the
appropriation act that allows local school boards to charge a per pupil fee for
behind-the-wheel driver education, the Board of Education may authorize a local
school board's request to assess a surcharge in order to further recover
program costs that exceed state funds distributed through basic aid to school
divisions offering driver education programs. Each school board may waive the
fee or the surcharge in total or in part for those students it determines
cannot pay the fee or surcharge.
If you
have any questions about charging a fee or assessing a surcharge 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 education, 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.
BKCJr/VCW/ce
Attachments
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/administrators/superintendents_memos/2007/adm040a.doc
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/administrators/superintendents_memos/2007/adm040b.doc
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/administrators/superintendents_memos/2007/adm040c.pdf