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As of October 1, changes in school board law mandated by Virginia’s general assembly will take effect. The revisions called for by the state legislature will have impact in two areas that we know of here.
The first is that the school board will no longer be able to delay a due-process hearing past a new 10-dav deadline for discipline cases involving a student’s suspension.
The second is that the board of supervisors must appoint a tie-breaker for the school board. In the past, this position has been filed for all county governing bodies by Sperryville attorney James William Fletcher, an individual who has attended only a handful of school board meetings during the past five years. When called upon last spring to cast the deciding aye or nay for purchase of a modular unit for the elementary school, Fletcher acknowledged his unfamiliarity with school issues and asked for 30 days to review the pros and cons—30 days allowed by the Code but 30 days that
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