No school board shall establish or contract to establish a career and technical education project until such project has been reviewed and approved by the Board of Education. The Board’s review shall be for the purpose of ensuring that (i) where a school board undertakes a project by contract with a corporation, such contract meets the requirements of this article, (ii) in undertaking a project, the school board complies with all other requirements of law and (iii) public funds will be protected. If the Board fails to act on a project submitted for approval within sixty days, the project shall be deemed to be approved.

Terms Used In Virginia Code 22.1-231

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • project: means a project that supplements the regular career and technical education program in a school division and that is designed to provide effective practical training to students in the secondary schools of the school division and in which participation is optional and voluntary. See Virginia Code 22.1-228
  • School board: means the school board that governs a school division. See Virginia Code 22.1-1

Code 1950, § 22-330.40; 1974, c. 336; 1980, c. 559; 2001, c. 483.

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