The Loudoun County School Board will hold a meeting at 4 p.m. Tuesday, November 29, in the School Board Meeting Room at the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Administrative Offices, 21000 Education Court in Ashburn.

The full meeting agenda is available on the LCPS website. The School Board will accept in-person and virtual comments for this meeting. For more information and to learn how to sign up to speak at meetings of the School Board or its committees, please visit the Citizen Participation webpage

The procedures for commenting to the School Board are as follows: Sign-up for public comment will close at noon on Tuesday, November 29. For those who have not pre-registered, walk-up registrations for in-person public comment will be accepted at the front of the LCPS Administrative Offices from 3 to 3:30 p.m. Walk-up speakers will be added to the end of the in-person comment list.

Telephone registration for in-person public comment will open at 8 a.m. Monday, November 28, and close at noon Tuesday, November 29. Telephone registration will be accepted at 571-252-1030.

The list of pre-registered speakers and the time allotted by the chair for speaking at the meeting will be posted on the front of the building at the west entrance to the Administrative Offices and on the school division’s website approximately an hour before the start of the meeting. 

Members of the public will be allowed to view public comments and the full meeting in the School Board Meeting Room. The public will be admitted through the west entrance of the Administrative Offices.

Members of the public eligible to address the School Board include residents of Loudoun County (including incorporated towns within); businesses located in whole or in part in Loudoun County; Loudoun County taxpayers; current or former LCPS students; parents and guardians of LCPS students that live outside of Loudoun County; LCPS employees and retirees; or representatives of organizations serving LCPS employees and students.

The following safety protocols are in effect for those entering the Administrative Offices to attend School Board meetings:

•  All persons and items entering the building are subject to search.

• The following items will not be allowed inside the LCPS Administrative Offices: bags and purses (purses or handbags 8 inches-by-11-inches-by-2 inches, or smaller, are permitted); backpacks; food; sticks or rods of any kind; lighters and matches; aerosols; noise-making devices; voice-enhancement devices; mace; pepper spray; and weapons of any kind. (Water in a one-liter or smaller soft-plastic container is permitted, one per person.) 

As a reminder, materials members of the public wish to present to School Board members should be given to the Public Information Officer, or designee, prior to the start of the meeting. These materials will be distributed to Board members. There will be a designated area to collect such materials. All materials being submitted to the School Board must be hand-carried without boxes or bags. Under no circumstances will a speaker approach the dais to present materials to the School Board.

The board will consider three action items during this meeting:

• 2023-2024 Student School Calendar Options

• Revenue Sharing Agreement Draft MOU

• New Policy 5055, Parental Notice of Sexually Explicit Content

The agenda contains 8 information items:

• Superintendent’s Operational Update

• Eastern Loudoun, Ashburn and Central Loudoun Secondary Attendance Zone Changes

• Policy 8260, Reporting of Student Conduct

• Adoption of Policy 4360, Small, Women-Owned, Minority-Owned and Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Businesses  

• Revisions to Policy 7312, Performance Management for Employees

• Superintendent's Office: Policy 7314, Duties and Responsibilities of Teachers

• Revisions to Policy 7564, Dress Code for Staff

• Policy 7720, Leave Associated With Legal Proceedings 

The meeting will be live-streamed on www.lcps.org and televised on Comcast channel 18 and Verizon FIOS channel 43.

Published November 25, 2022