Source: http://www.lcsedu.net/schoolboard/policymanual/jec
Timestamp: 2018-03-19 12:45:30
Document Index: 381815635

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 22', '§ 1044', '§ 63', '§ 63', '§ 22', '§ 22', '§ 22']

School Admission - Policy JEC
A person of school age (i.e., a person who will have reached his or her fifth birthday on or before September 30 of the school year and who has not reached 20 years of age on or before August 1st of the school year) is eligible for admission on a non-tuition basis if residing in the Lynchburg City School Division, or if eligible for admission under Policy JECA.
when the person is living with a natural parent, or a parent by legal adoption, in the Lynchburg City School Division;
when, in accordance with the provisions of Va. Code § 22.1-360, the person is living with a noncustodial parent or other person standing in loco parentis, not solely for school purposes, pursuant to a Special Power of Attorney executed under 10 United States Code § 1044b by the custodial parent;
when the parents of such person are dead and the person is living with a person in loco parentis who actually resides within the school division;
when the parents of such person are unable to care for the person and the person is living, not solely for school purposes, with another person who resides in the school division and is either
the court-appointed guardian, or has legal custody of the person,
acting in loco parentis pursuant to placement of the person for adoption by a person or entity authorized to do so under Va. Code § 63.2-1200; or
an adult relative providing temporary kinship care as that term is defined in Va. Code § 63.2-100. Both parents and the relative providing kinship care must submit signed, notarized affidavits
explaining why the parents are unable to care for the person,
detailing the kinship care arrangement, and
agreeing that the kinship care provider or a parent will notify the school within 30 days of when the kinship care arrangement ends.
when the person is living in the school division not solely for school purposes, as an emancipated minor; or
when the person has been placed in a foster care placement within the school division by a local social services agency.
The sending and receiving school divisions will cooperate in facilitating the enrollment of any child placed in foster care across jurisdictional lines to enhance continuity of instruction. The child will be allowed to continue to attend the school in which he was enrolled prior to the most recent foster care placement, upon the joint determination of the placing social services agency and the school division that such attendance is in the best interest of the child.
No person of school age who is the subject of a foster care placement will be charged tuition regardless of whether the child is attending the school in which he was enrolled prior to the most recent foster care placement or is attending a school in the receiving school division.
Certain other students may be admitted into the public schools of the division and may be charged tuition in accordance with Va. Code § 22.1-5 and pursuant to Lynchburg City School Board Regulation JEC-R School Admission.
No child of a person on active military duty attending a school free of charge in accordance with this policy shall be charged tuition by the school division upon such child's relocation to military housing located in another school division in the Commonwealth, pursuant to orders received by such child's parent to relocate to base housing and forfeit his military housing allowance. Such children shall be allowed to continue attending school in the school division and shall not be charged tuition for attending such school. Such children shall be counted in the average daily membership of the school division in which they are enrolled.
Further, the school division in which such children are enrolled subsequent to their relocation to base housing shall not be responsible for providing for their transportation to and from school.
Students enrolled in a private or parochial school or homeschooled will not be admitted to this school division on a part-time basis except as required by law.
E. Tuition rates are established each year in accordance with the provisions of Va. Code § 22.15.
F. Prior to admission to the Lynchburg City School Division, the parent, guardian, or other person having control or charge of the child shall provide, upon registration,
When the child is registered as a result of a foster care placement, the information required under this subsection must be furnished by the local social services agency or licensed child- placing agency that made the placement.
G. A student, who has been expelled or suspended for more than thirty days from attendance at school by a school board or a private school in Virginia or in another state or for whom admission has been withdrawn by a private school in Virginia or another state may be excluded from attendance in the Lynchburg City School Division regardless of whether such student has been admitted to another school division or private school in Virginia or in another state subsequent to such expulsion, suspension, or withdrawal of admission upon a finding that the student presents a danger to the other students or staff of the school division after (i) written notice to the student and his/her parent that the student may be subject to exclusion, including the reasons therefore, and notice of the opportunity for the student or his parent to participate in a hearing to be conducted by the Superintendent or his designee regarding such exclusion; and (ii) a hearing of the case has been conducted by the Superintendent or his/her designee; and the decision has been to exclude the student from attendance. The student or his parent may file a written petition for review with the School Board within 15 days of notice of the decision of the Superintendent or his/her designee. If the School Board grants a review of the record, the decision of the Superintendent or his/her designee may be altered.
H. This policy does not preclude contractual arrangements between the Lynchburg City School Board and agencies of the federal government or the school board of another jurisdiction to permit students not otherwise eligible to attend Lynchburg City Schools.
Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, §§ 22.1-1, 22.1-3, 22.1-3.1, 22.1-3.2, 22.13.4, 22.1-5, 22.1-255, 22.1-260, 22.1-270, 22.1-271.2, 22.1-276.01, 22.1-277.2, 22.1-287.02, 22.1-288.2, 32.1-46, 63.2-100, 63.2-900, and 63.2-1200.