Virginia Administrative Code › Title 8 - EDUCATION › Agency 20 - STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION › Chapter 390 - RULES GOVERNING DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS › Section 8VAC20-390-10 - Qualifications

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
Division superintendents of county, town, and city school
				  systems are required by law to be appointed from a list of eligible persons
				  approved by the State Board of Education. To be placed on the list of
				  eligibles, applicants must meet the following qualifications:
1. Personal qualities. Eligibility shall be
				limited to individuals whose records attest to good character and demonstrated
				ability as an educational administrator.
2. Education. The applicant shall have earned
				60 semester hours of graduate work from an institution of higher learning
				accredited by the state accrediting agency and shall hold the Master's degree
				or be pursuing a doctoral program approved by any such accredited institution.
The applicant shall have completed graduate work in the
				  following areas: history or philosophy of education, courses designed to
				  develop competence in supervision and curriculum development, administration,
				  finance, law, plant, personnel management or school-community relations,
				  research, or statistical methods.
3. Experience. The applicant shall have had
				at least five years of satisfactory and full-time experience in administration
				or supervision, or both, in public schools.* This experience shall have been
				acquired in the principalships or positions, or both, within the central
				administrative offices of the school division. A maximum of two years of this
				requirement may be met through full-time experience in the assistant
				principalship. Certification as to whether the applicant has served
				satisfactorily in full-time positions of administration or supervision, or
				both, must be mailed directly to the Department of Education by the division
				superintendent.
4. Recency of
				professional education or experience, or both, and status report. A portion of
				either professional education or experience, or both, shall have been within a
				period of four years immediately prior to the application. An individual not
				serving as a division superintendent is required to complete a status report
				every four years. The report should include current information about the
				individual, such as current position, professional growth activities, and other
				pertinent data. The Department of Education will request the status report
				early in the school year prior to commencement of the new term for the division
				superintendents.
5. Conditions.
				Superintendents in office in Virginia as of November 1, 1967, shall not be
				required to meet these qualifications as long as they serve continuously in
				such positions in the state.
Persons on the eligible list as of November 1, 1967, who did
				  not meet the education requirement effective that day shall submit to the
				  department official transcripts of graduate work in support of at least six
				  semester hours beyond the master's degree each two years thereafter until such
				  time as they meet the new academic requirement. Any person who does not comply
				  with this requirement will be removed from the eligible list.
*Comparable experience in accredited private schools or other
				  educational systems may be accepted upon the recommendation of the
				  Superintendent of Public Instruction and the approval of the Board of
				  Education.
Statutory Authority
§§ 22.1-59, 22.1-60, and 22.1-70 of the Code of
					 Virginia.