Section 4. Board of Education
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Board of Education
The general supervision of the public school system shall be vested in a Board of Education of nine members, to be appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the General Assembly. Each appointment shall be for four years, except that those to fill vacancies shall be for the unexpired terms. Terms shall be staggered, so that no more than three regular appointments shall be made in the same year.
State Board of Education; composition; vacancies, how filled
The general supervision of the school system shall be vested in a State Board of Education, to be appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the General Assembly, and to consist of seven members. The first appointment under this section shall be one member for one year, two members for two years, two members for three years, and two members for four years, and thereafter all appointments shall be made for a term of four years, except appointments to fill vacancies, which shall be for the unexpired terms.
The general supervision of the school system shall be vested in a State Board of Education, composed of the Governor, Attorney-General, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and three experienced educators to be elected quadrennially by the Senate, from a list of eligibles, consisting of one from each of the faculties, and nominated by the respective boards of visitors or trustees, of the University of Virginia, the Virginia Military Institute, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the State Female Normal School at Farmville, the School for the Deaf and Blind, and also of the College of William and Mary, so long as the State continue its annual appropriation to the last named institution.
The board thus constituted shall elect and associate with itself two division superintendents of schools, one from a county and the other from a city, who shall hold office for two years, and whose powers and duties shall be identical with those of other members, except that they shall not participate in the appointment of any public school official.
Any vacancy occurring during the term of any member of the board shall be filled for the unexpired term by said board.
There shall be a Board of Education, composed of the Governor, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Attorney-General, which shall appoint and have power to remove, for cause and upon notice to the incumbents, subject to confirmation by the Senate, all County Superintendents of public free schools. This board shall have, regulated by law the management and investment of all school funds, and such supervision of schools of higher grades, as the law shall provide.