A. The teachers in the public schools of a school division shall be employed and placed in appropriate schools by the school board upon recommendation of the division superintendent. In placing teachers, school boards shall fill positions with licensed instructional personnel qualified in the relevant subject areas.
B. School boards shall adopt employment policies and practices designed to promote the employment and retention of highly qualified teachers and to effectively serve the educational needs of students. Such policies shall include, but need not be limited to, incentives for excellence in teaching, including financial support for teachers attending professional development seminars or those seeking and obtaining national certification.
C. School boards shall develop a procedure for use by division superintendents and principals in evaluating teachers that is appropriate to the tasks performed and addresses, among other things, student academic progress and the skills and knowledge of instructional personnel, including, but not limited to, instructional methodology, classroom management, and subject matter knowledge.
Teachers employed by local school boards who have achieved continuing contract status shall be formally evaluated at least once every three years and more often as deemed necessary by the principal, and they shall be evaluated informally during each year in which they are not formally evaluated. Any teacher who has achieved continuing contract status who receives an unsatisfactory formal evaluation and who continues to be employed by the local school board shall be formally evaluated in the following year. The evaluation shall be maintained in the employee's personnel file.
Each local superintendent shall annually certify divisionwide compliance with the provisions of this section to the Department.
Code 1950, § 22-203; 1980, c. 559; 1996, c. 186; 1999, cc. 831, 1030, 1037; 2006, c. 373; 2013, cc. 588, 650.
Notes of Decisions
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cases, 1982–2004 · leading case:
Lentz v. Morris, 372 S.E.2d 608 (Va. 1988).
Lentz v. Morris, 372 S.E.2d 608 (Va. 1988).
· cites it 4× “"); Code § 22.1-295 ("The teachers in the public schools of a school division shall be employed *611 and placed in the appropriate schools by the school board upon recommendation of the division superintendent.”
Dennis v. Cnty. Sch. Bd. of Rappahannock Co., 582 F. Supp. 536 (W.D. Va. 1984).
· cites it 9× “To read that passage to require actual written notice from the school board, the defendants argue, both disregards the superintendent’s positive recommendation as a condition precedent to contract renewal under Va.Code § 22.1-295, and elevates form over substance, contrary to…”
Banks v. Sellers, 294 S.E.2d 862 (Va. 1982).
· cites it 4× “1982), and Code §§ 22.1-295, -297 (1980). [3] The present statutes relating to school principals are Code § 22.”
Baynard v. Malone, 268 F.3d 228 (4th Cir. 2001).
“See Va. Code Ann. § 22.1-295 (A) (Michie 2000) ("The teachers in the public schools of a school division shall be employed and placed in appropriate schools by the school board upon recom- mendation of the division superintendent.”
Tazewell Cnty. Sch. Bd. v. Gillenwater, 400 S.E.2d 199 (Va. 1991).
· cites it 2× “Upon adoption of the appropriate resolution by the school board, the school division superintendent may reassign teachers to any school within the division, provided no such change or reassignment during a school year shall affect the salary of such teacher.”
Cnty. Sch. Bd. of York Cnty. v. Epperson, 246 Va. 214 (Va. 1992).
· cites it 2× “Code § 22.1-295 provides: “The teachers in the public schools of a school division shall be employed and placed in appropriate schools by the school board upon recommendation of the *216 division superintendent.”
Rasnick v. Dickenson Cnty. Sch. Bd., 333 F. Supp. 2d 560 (W.D. Va. 2004).
“§ 22.1-295 (Michie 2003). School boards retain “exclusive final authority” over supervision of its employees, including dismissals, suspensions, and placement on probation.”
Jafari v. Wiggins, 41 Va. Cir. 514 (Richmond County Cir. Ct. 1997).
· cites it 2× “Plaintiffs final claim is brought under § 22.1-295. The statute reads: The teachers in the public schools of a school division shall be employed and placed in appropriate schools by the school board upon recommendation of the division superintendents.”
Hawkins v. Greene Cnty., 43 Va. Cir. 223 (Greene Cir. Ct. 1997).
· cites it 3× “Under Va. Code §22.1-295, public school teachers are employees of the school board.”
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