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1994 SESSION
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 22.1-348 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 22.1-348. Persons eligible; fees; educational programs to be provided; attendance zones; admissions procedures.
A. Persons of ages two through twenty-one shall be eligible for educational
services provided by the schools. Until July 1, 1993, there shall be no
charge for the education of students, but fees for student activities may be
charged at the Board's discretion. Beginning July 1, 1993, the Department of
Education shall be entitled to deduct annually from the locality's share for
the education of handicapped pupils with disabilities a sum
equal to the actual local expenditure per pupil in support of those students
placed by the relevant local school division in either of the Virginia
Schools for the Deaf and the Blind. The amount of the actual transfers shall
be based on data accumulated during the prior school year.
B. The Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind at Staunton shall provide
an educational program for deaf children who are deaf from
preschool through grade twelve and an educational program for blind
children who are blind from preschool through grade twelve. The
Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind at Hampton shall provide an
educational program for deaf children who are deaf from
preschool through grade twelve, an educational program for blind
children who are blind from preschool through grade twelve, and an
educational program for multi-handicapped children with
sensory-impaired multiple disabilities from preschool through grade
twelve.
The preschool programs may be residential or nonresidential or both at the discretion of the Board. The Board, from time to time, may approve additional programs as may be appropriate.
"Multi-handicapped children" shall mean"Sensory-impaired multiple
disabilities" means, for the purposes of this section and the
identification of the program at the Virginia School for the Deaf and the
Blind at Hampton, children who have two or more major handicapping
conditions so severe that their particular educational needs require unique
and special services or whose combination of severely handicapping conditions
requires extraordinary programs or services or both to meet their particular
educational needsconcomitant impairments, including at least one
significant sensory impairment, the combination of which requires services
that cannot be provided in special education programs designed solely for one
impairment. The term does not include deaf-blindness.
C. The Board may establish geographic attendance zones to determine the
school each student shall attend through grade eight. However, the younger
siblings of a child in high school may attend the same school as the child in
high school for the convenience and comfort of both children and parents.
Multi-handicapped students whose primary disability is either blindness or
deafness. Students with sensory-impaired multiple disabilities
shall attend the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind at Hampton.
D. The Board shall prescribe procedures and criteria for determining admission to the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind at Hampton and the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind at Staunton. The appropriateness of the placement of each student attending either school shall be reviewed at least annually.