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Virginia Department of Education

State education agency of Virginia

Field	Value
agency_name	Virginia Department of Education
formed
preceding1	Department of Public Instruction
jurisdiction	Government of Virginia
headquarters	101 N 14th St, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
picture	File:James Monroe Building.jpg
chief1_name	Aimee Guidera
chief1_position	Secretary of Education
chief2_name	Jillian Balow
chief2_position	Superintendent of Public Instruction
website

The Virginia Department of Education is the state education agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is headquartered in the James Monroe Building in Richmond. The department is headed by the Secretary of Education (currently Aimee Guidera), who is a member of the Virginia Governor's Cabinet, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction (currently Lisa Coons), a position that is also appointed by the Governor of Virginia. The Secretary of Education is responsible for heading the department and for overseeing Virginia's 16 public colleges and universities, the Virginia Community College System, the commonwealth's five higher education centers, and Virginia's public museums.

The Virginia Department of Education is organized into four divisions: Division of Budget, Finance, and Operations; Division of School Quality, Instruction, and Performance; Division of School Readiness; and the Department of Policy, Equity, and Communications. Communication by the agency is handled through news releases and memoranda from the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Educator licensure

Within the public schools in Virginia, teachers and school administrators must be licensed by the Department.

Standards of learning

The state assesses student performance in the elementary school and secondary school grades by the Standards of Learning (SOL) test. Students are required to take them once they reach the third grade. Virginia did not join the consortium of states to adopt the Common Core standards within the Commonwealth; instead the Standards of Learning form the foundation for curriculum for all of Virginia's public schools.

Virginia provides Standards for certain subject areas that are not currently tested, including Technology, Computer Science, and World Languages.

Educational outreach

In 2013, the Virginia Department of Education released a 25-minute video, "The Virginia Indians: Meet the Tribes," covering both historical and contemporary Native American life in Virginia.{{Cite news | access-date = 2013-11-29

Pandemic response

In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Virginia Department of Education created a guidance document for Virginia's public school leaders focused on a return to learning for the Fall of 2020. In December, 2020, the Governor of Virginia recognized members of the Virginia Department of Education with his Honor Awards, for the agency's pandemic response with the Recover, Redesign, and Restart document.

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 allocated $2.1 billion in pandemic relief money for Virginia public schools. Using $34 million of those funds, the Virginia Department of Education developed a grant program, "Onward and Upward: Supporting Literacy and Mathematics" awarding grants to public colleges and universities to develop resources and professional development programs for reading and mathematics teachers.

References

[http://www.doe.virginia.gov/ Home page]. Virginia Department of Education. Retrieved on September 10, 2009.
(2012-03-22). "Virginia Secretary of Education - Laura Fornash". Education.virginia.gov.
"About VDOE". doe.virginia.gov.
"Licensure". doe.virginia.gov.
"SOL Test Administration and Development". doe.virginia.gov.
"Common Core: Part One". heav.org.
"Standards of Learning and Testing". doe.virginia.org.
"Standards of Learning and Testing". dhrm.virginia.gov.
"Virginia Department of Education to Make $34 Million Available to Improve Math and Literacy".

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