Education

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This is Title 22.1 of the Code of Virginia, titled “Education.” It contains 858 laws divided across 99 structures.

Chapter 1	System of Public Schools; General Provisions
Chapter 2	Board of Education
Chapter 3	Superintendent of Public Instruction
Chapter 4	School Divisions, Joint Schools and Contracts Between School Divisions
Chapter 4.1	Opportunity Educational Institution [Repealed]
Chapter 5	School Boards; Selection, Qualification and Salaries of Members
Chapter 6	Division Superintendents
Chapter 7	General Powers and Duties of School Boards
Chapter 8	Public School Funds
Chapter 9	School Property
Chapter 10	Literary Fund
Chapter 10.1	Borrowing by School Boards From Virginia Retirement System
Chapter 11	Virginia Public School Authority
Chapter 11.1	Virginia Public School Construction Grants Program and Fund
Chapter 13	Programs, Courses of Instruction and Textbooks
Chapter 11.2	Virginia Public School Educational Technology Grants Program
Chapter 13.2	Standards of Quality
Chapter 12	Pupil Transportation
Chapter 14.1	Early Childhood Care and Education
Chapter 13.1	The Standards of Quality [Repealed]
Chapter 15	Teachers, Officers and Employees
Chapter 16	Schools for Students with Disabilities
Chapter 14	Pupils
Chapter 19.1	College Partnership Laboratory Schools
Chapter 17	Compact for Education; Education Commission of the States
Chapter 25	Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Competition Team Grant Program And Fund [Expired]
Chapter 18	Department of Correctional Education [Repealed]
Chapter 26	Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Advisory Board
Chapter 19	The Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind
Chapter 27	Educational Opportunities for Children of Certain Federal Employees
Chapter 28	Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Of Virginia Program
Chapter 20	Southwest Virginia Public Education Consortium
Chapter 29	Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, And Computing (Stem+C) Competition Team Grant Program
Chapter 20.1	Western Virginia Public Education Consortium
Chapter 20.2	Northern Neck-Middle Peninsula Public Education Consortium
Chapter 21	Virginia Gifted Education Consortium [Expired]
Chapter 22	The Hampton Roads Museum Consortium
Chapter 23	Southern Regional Education Compact
Chapter 24	Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children