July 30-31, 2025

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Virginia Board of Education Public Notice - July 30-31, 2025

The Virginia Board of Education will convene on Wednesday, July 30, and Thursday, July 31, 2025, for its monthly meetings. The Wednesday, July 30, 2025, meeting will convene at 9:00 a.m. in the Lecture Hall on the first floor of the Library of Virginia (800 E. Broad St, Richmond, VA 23219). The Board will go into a Work Session. The work session will be livestreamed on the VDOE YouTube channel.  Board of Education members will break for lunch, and the public may attend. No votes will be taken during lunch. The Board will convene in a closed meeting under § 2.2-3711 of the Code of Virginia in the Lecture Hall at the conclusion of the work session or lunch.  The closed meeting will not be livestreamed. The Thursday, July 31, 2025, meeting will be held in the Lecture Hall on the first floor of the Library of Virginia (800 E. Broad St, Richmond, VA 23219). All meetings, except closed sessions, are open to the public and will be livestreamed on the VDOE YouTube channel.

The Board president reserves the right to change this schedule depending upon the time constraints during the meetings.

July 30, 2025

• The Board will convene in a Work Session in the Lecture Hall, beginning at 9:00 a.m. Public comment will not be accepted during the Work Session.
• Board of Education members will break for lunch. No votes will be taken, and it is open to the public.
• The Board will convene in a Business Meeting in the Lecture Hall after the Work Session or lunch. The purpose of convening this meeting is for the Board to go into closed session under Virginia Code § 2.2-3711. Public comment will not be accepted during this time.

July 31, 2025

• The Board of Education will hold its monthly Business Meeting in the Lecture Hall, beginning at 9:00 a.m. Public comment will be accepted.
• The Board of Education will accept public comment in advance of the meeting through the Board of Education Comment Form. This form collects public comments for review by the members of the Board. The Board accepts comments from the public on all matters related to public education in Virginia. Comments may be submitted at any time but will be collected and shared with Board members as part of the meeting materials for its next scheduled business meeting.
• Members of the public may signup to address the Board at one of its scheduled business meetings by using the Board of Education Public Comment Sign-Up Form. Requests to address the Board should be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. the day before the scheduled business meeting but may be requested at the meeting at the discretion of the President.
• For all meetings, persons are encouraged to print items of interest as hard copies will not be available at the meeting site. Wi-Fi is available in the meeting room.

Please note that the Library of Virginia opens at 8:30 a.m.

If you have any questions, please contact Board staff at boe@doe.virginia.gov.

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Work Session Agenda – Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Video | Minutes

9:00 a.m. Full Board Convenes

Welcome and Opening Comments

• The meeting will be livestreamed on the VDOE YouTube channel.

Presentations

• Item A: National Expert Series: Presentation of High-Quality Instructional Materials in Virginia

Dr. Ashley Berner is Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and Associate Professor of Education. Palgrave MacMillan released Pluralism and American Public Education: No One Way to School (2017), and Harvard Education Press released her new book, Educational Pluralism and American Democracy: How to Handle Indoctrination, Promote Exposure, and Rebuild America’s Schools, in April 2024. 

Dr. Berner has published dozens of articles, books, book chapters, op-eds, and a widely watched TEDx talk on citizenship formation, academic outcomes, pluralism, and the political theories of education in different national contexts. She led the design of the Institute’s School Culture 360™ and ELA and Social Studies Knowledge Maps™.  Dr. Berner represents the Institute’s work across the country and consults regularly with international, federal, and state-level agencies, non-governmental organizations, and school systems. 

Dr. Berner holds degrees from Davidson College (Honors A.B.) and from Oxford University (M.Litt. and D.Phil. in Modern History). 
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Dr. David Steiner founded the Institute for Education Policy at Johns Hopkins in 2015 and serves as its Executive Director and professor at the School of Education. In that role he has become recognized as the nation’s foremost authority on the curricula used in America’s schools, serving as senior advisor on curriculum to the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Association of State Boards of Education and having published a major book on American education, A Nation at Thought: Restoring Wisdom in America’s Schools (2023).  

Before joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Steiner served as Dean of the Hunter College CUNY School of Education and as Commissioner for Education for New York State, where he led that state’s successful “Race to the Top” federal grant bid, resulting in $700 million in discretionary funds for the state. With that funding, he launched the nation’s first online, free, high-quality curricula in math and ELA, materials that were downloaded over 100 million times within two years. 

Dr. Steiner has published more than 50 journal articles, edited multiple books, and given more than 70 public lectures in the United States. His board service included four years on the Maryland State Board of Education and the Core Knowledge Foundation. He currently serves on the board of the Relay Graduate School of Education.

Dr. Steiner holds degrees from Harvard University (PhD in political science), and (Balliol College) Oxford University (BA and MA).
• Item B: Presentation on International Baccalaureate Program
• Item C: Presentation on Virginia K-12 Education Budget
• Item D: National Expert Series: Presentation of K-12 Education Funding Compared to National Trends
  Dr. Marguerite Roza, Research Professor and Director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University
  
  Dr. Roza has led projects on state and school district finance policy, financial equity, pensions, compensation, higher education finance, and other related topics, including the Institute for Education Sciences multi-year study of weighted student funding, the Finance and Productivity Initiative at the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), and the Schools in Crisis Rapid Response Paper Series. She led the creation of several newly available financial datasets and data visualizations, including NERD$ (producing school-by-school spending on every US public school), the ESSER Expenditure Dashboard, and ROI scatterplots. These freely accessible resources have been used extensively across the field by researchers, education leaders, advocates, and journalists to bring transparency to how funds are used, and to inform financial decision-making. 
  
  Prior to her appointment at Georgetown University, she served as Senior Economic Advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Earlier, she served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy teaching thermodynamics at the Naval Nuclear Power School. Dr. Roza earned a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Washington and a B.S. from Duke University. She also studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Amsterdam. 
• Item E: Presentation on New River Valley Governor's School Proposal

Closed Session for Licensure Cases 

Concluding Remarks and Adjournment

Business Session Agenda – Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Convenes after the Work Session or Lunch

Executive Session**

Adjournment

** The purpose of convening this meeting is for the board to go into executive session under § 2.2-3711 of the Code of Virginia. Public comment will not be accepted at this time.

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Business Session Agenda – Thursday, July 31, 2025

Video | Minutes

9:00 a.m. Full Board Convenes

• The meeting will be livestreamed on the VDOE YouTube channel.

Moment of Silence

Pledge of Allegiance

Approval of the Agenda

Approval of Minutes

• Minutes from the June 18, 2025, Meeting of the Board of Education

Student Performance

Public Comment*

Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee

Presentations from the Governor's Student Advisory Board

• Expanding Access to Industry Recognized Credentials
• School Counseling on Pathways & Student Input
• Civic Readiness

Consent Agenda

• Item A: First and Final Review to Certify a List of Qualified Persons for the Office of Division Superintendent of Schools
  • Item A - Attachment 1
• Item B: First and Final Review of Financial Report on Literary Fund and Updates to the First Priority Waiting List
  • Item B- Attachment 1
  • Item B- Attachment 2
• Item C: Final Review of Regulatory Action Regarding Documents Incorporated by Reference to 8VAC20-340
  • Item C - Attachment 1
  • Item C - Attachment 2

Executive Session Related to Legal Matters

Action/Discussion Items

• Item D: Final Review of Virginia School Accreditation System Report for School Year 2024-2025
  • Item D - Attachment 1
  • Item D - Attachment 2
  • Item D - Presentation
• Item E: Final Review of Revisions to the Model Policy Concerning Internet Safety
  • Item E - Attachment 1
  • Item E - Attachment 2
  • Item E - Presentation
• Item F: Final Review of Board of Education Unified Regulatory Plan for 2026
  • Item F - Attachment 1
  • Item F - Attachment 2
• Item G: First and Final Review of Periodic Reviews of Regulations
  • Item G - Attachment 1
  • Item G - Attachment 2
  • Item G - Attachment 3
  • Item G - Attachment 4
• Item H: First and Final Review of Child Care Subsidy Program Budget Implementation
  • Item H - Attachment 1
  • Item H - Attachment 2
• Item I: First and Final Review of Revisions to the List of Board of Education Approved Industry Certifications, Occupational Competency Assessments, and Professional Licenses
  • Item I - Attachment 1
• Item J: First and Final Review of Revisions to the Virginia Public School Bus Specifications to Align with the 2025 Acts of the Assembly
  • Item J - Attachment 1
  • Item J - Attachment 2
• Item K: First and Final Review of School-Connected Overdose Parent Notification Guidelines
  • Item K - Attachment 1
• Item L: First Review of Revisions to the Board's Approved Courses to Satisfy Graduation Requirements for the Standard, Advanced Studies, and Modified Standard Diplomas in Virginia Public Schools
  • Item L - Attachment 1
•  Item M: First Review of Guidelines for Policies on Concussions
  • Item M - Attachment 1
• Item N: First Review of Regulatory Actions Following Periodic Review of Regulations
  • Item N - Attachment 1
  • Item N - Attachment 2
  • Item N - Attachment 3
  • Item N - Attachment 4
• Item O: First Review of Revisions to the High-Quality Work-Based Learning Guide
  • Item O - Attachment 1
• Item P: First Review of New River Valley Governor's School Proposal
  • Item P - Attachment 1
• Item Q: First Review of the Draft 2025 Expanded High School Science Standards of Learning
  • Item Q - Attachment 1
  • Item Q - Presentation

Discussion of Current Issues – by Board of Education Members and Superintendent of Public Instruction

Adjournment

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*Guidelines for Public Comment

The Board of Education will provide an opportunity for members of the public to address the Board at its meetings, as appropriate, during the public comment portion of the meeting. Written public comment will continue to be accepted through the Board of Education Comment Form.

At its regular meetings, members of the public may address the Board during the public comment portion of the meeting on any matter related to public education which includes the actions of the Board. During the public comment portion of any committee of the Board or any advisory committee of the Board, the Board requests that members of the public only address the committee on matters on the committee’s published agenda and any matters added to the agenda during the meeting by the committee.

Requests to address the Board or one of its committees during the public comment portion of the meeting shall include the subject to be discussed and the name of the speaker.

Requests to address the Board or one of its committees during the public comment portion of the meeting should be submitted to the Department of Education in advance of the meeting, but may be submitted the day of the meeting, at the discretion of the President or committee chairperson. In honoring such requests, the Board will limit such comments to three minutes for each speaker at the discretion of the President or committee chairperson.

The Board President or committee chairperson may, in his or her discretion, extend the public comment portion of the meeting, allocate the time available for public comment, adjust the order of speakers, or take other reasonable measures to ensure that the Board hears multiple views on any matter presented to the Board.