2nd Tuesday School Board Meeting, Tuesday, Sep 9, 2025

What was decided · How each member voted

• 1.01 Remote Participation: That Dr. Deans request to participate remotely using a medical exemption be granted. · 8-0 (Approved: Kari LaBell, April Chandler, Anne Donohue, Deana Griffiths, Arben Istrefi, Melinda Mansfield, Sumera Rashid, Lauren Shernoff) Sep 9, 2025 BoardDocs minutes
• 3.01–3.05 Items 3.01–3.05 (adopted together): That the Loudoun County School Board adopt the September 9, 2025, Consent Agenda. · 8-0-1 (Approved: Kari LaBell, April Chandler, Linda Deans, Anne Donohue, Arben Istrefi, Melinda Mansfield, Sumera Rashid, Lauren Shernoff; Abstained: Deana Griffiths) Sep 9, 2025 BoardDocs minutes
• 12.01 Department of Business and Financial Services: Special Education Maintenance of Effort Financial Review: That the Loudoun County School Board authorizes usage of $28,997,133 (Twenty-eight million, nine hundred ninety-seven thousand, one hundred thirty-three) of the FY25 allocated and unencumbered school operating fund balance to reimburse Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) FY23 and FY24 Title VIB funds in response to VDOE’s determination regarding Maintenance of Effort requirements. · 9-0 (Approved: Kari LaBell, April Chandler, Linda Deans, Anne Donohue, Deana Griffiths, Arben Istrefi, Melinda Mansfield, Sumera Rashid, Lauren Shernoff) Sep 9, 2025 BoardDocs minutes
• 12.02 Department of Business and Financial Services: Supplemental Increase for Self Insurance Funds: That the Loudoun County School Board authorizes an FY25 supplemental budget increase of $1,500,000 (one million five hundred thousand dollars) for the Workers’ Compensation Self Insurance Fund, to be funded by available fund balance and transfers from the School Operating Fund. Further, that the Loudoun County School Board authorizes an FY25 supplemental budget increase of $43,000,000… · 9-0 (Approved: Kari LaBell, April Chandler, Linda Deans, Anne Donohue, Deana Griffiths, Arben Istrefi, Melinda Mansfield, Sumera Rashid, Lauren Shernoff) Sep 9, 2025 BoardDocs minutes
• 12.03 Legislative, Audit, and Policy Committee: Revisions of Policy 2310, Committees of the School Board: That the Loudoun County School Board adopt the Legislative, Audit, and Policy Committee's approved revisions of Policy 2310, Committees of the School Board, as amended, which includes the extraction of lines 20-22 and 326-340. · 8-1 (Approved: Kari LaBell, April Chandler, Linda Deans, Anne Donohue, Deana Griffiths, Arben Istrefi, Melinda Mansfield, Sumera Rashid; Opposed: Lauren Shernoff) Sep 9, 2025 BoardDocs minutes
• 12.04 Specialized Programs & Centers Committee: Review of Policy 5095, Participation in the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology: That the Loudoun County School Board adopt the Specialized Programs and Centers Committee's approved revisions to Policy 5095, Participation in the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. · 8-0-1 (Approved: Kari LaBell, April Chandler, Linda Deans, Deana Griffiths, Arben Istrefi, Melinda Mansfield, Sumera Rashid, Lauren Shernoff; Abstained: Anne Donohue) Sep 9, 2025 BoardDocs minutes
• 12.05 Specialized Programs & Centers Committee: Charter School Annual Technology and Support Services Agreements: That the Loudoun County School Board adopt the Technology and Support Services agreements for Hillsboro Charter Academy (HCA) and Middleburg Community Charter School (MCCS). · 8-0-1 (Approved: Kari LaBell, April Chandler, Linda Deans, Deana Griffiths, Arben Istrefi, Melinda Mansfield, Sumera Rashid, Lauren Shernoff; Abstained: Anne Donohue) Sep 9, 2025 BoardDocs minutes
• 12.06 Student Behavior and Accountability Committee: Revisions of Policy 8225, Admission, Exclusion or Reassignment of Student Previously Expelled, Long-Term Suspended, or Reassigned to an Alternative Education Program: That the Loudoun County School Board adopt the Student Behavior and Accountability Committee's approved revisions to Policy 8225, Re-Admission, Exclusion, or Admission of Students. · 7-1-1 (Approved: Kari LaBell, April Chandler, Anne Donohue, Arben Istrefi, Melinda Mansfield, Sumera Rashid, Lauren Shernoff; Opposed: Deana Griffiths; Abstained: Linda Deans) Sep 9, 2025 BoardDocs minutes

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School Board: Donohue, Chandler, Griffiths, Svenson, LaBell, Pepper, Shernoff, Rashid, Riccardi. Member-by-member votes will be listed here from the official record.

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• 00:00:50

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• 00:35:05

  Item 4.02 Department of Academics: ONE LCPS: Strategic Plan 2027 Update.Copy link𝕏 Post

• 01:15:45

  Item 3.02 Finance & Operations Committee: Watson Mountain MS (MS-14) Onsite Sanitary Easement - Fleetwood.Copy link𝕏 Post

• 01:18:51

  Item 12.01 Department of Business and Financial Services: Special Education Maintenance of Effort Financial Review.Copy link𝕏 Post

• 05:11:22

  Adjournment.Copy link𝕏 Post

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