22.1-254.01 - Certain students required to attend summer school or after-school sessions. - Virginia Statutes

§ 22.1-254.01. Certain students required to attend summer school orafter-school sessions.

The division superintendent may seek immediate compliance with the compulsoryschool attendance law as set forth in § 22.1-254 after a reasonable effort toseek the student's attendance in the summer school program or after-schoolsession has failed, including direct notification of the parents of suchstudent of the attendance requirement and failure of the parents to securethe student's attendance, when:

1. A student is required to take a special program of prevention,intervention, or remediation in a public summer school program or toparticipate in another form of remediation as provided in subsection C of §22.1-253.13:1 and in accordance with clause (ii) of subsection A of §22.1-254; and

2. The division superintendent determines that remediation of the student'spoor academic performance, passage of the Standards of Learning Assessment ingrades three through eight, or promotion is related directly to the student'sattendance in the summer school program or participation in another form ofremediation.

(1996, c. 163; 1997, cc. 466, 828; 1998, cc. 602, 627, 902; 1999, cc. 488,552; 2006, cc. 41, 834.)