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Virginia Board of Education, Work Session (Part 1), Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Place: Virginia Board of Education (Virginia Department of Education), Richmond, Virginia
Length: 15m (video)
Official meeting video (VDOE, YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lHwsvv1WN4
Board of Education meetings, agendas and minutes (VDOE): https://www.doe.virginia.gov/state-board-data-funding/virginia-board-of-education

Machine transcript (speech-to-text) produced by Coraggio Consulting. Not an official county record. Names and numbers may be misspelled; check the video at the timestamp before quoting.
Speech-to-text: whisper.cpp, model large-v3-turbo. Produced 2026-10-22. Timestamps are [HH:MM:SS] into the meeting video.

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[00:00:31] Good morning. It is a little after nine. Apologies for the delay. I would like to now call this

[00:12:43] meeting to order. Before I do that, I want to acknowledge that we are in the Reynolds Community College and so grateful for Reynolds for hosting the board meeting. With that, my name is Michelle Ashton. I am the president of the Virginia Board of Education. I'd like to call this meeting to order at this time the chair will entertain a motion for the board to go into executive session i move that the virginia board of education convene in a closed meeting for the following purposes discussion or consideration by the board of education of information relating to the denial suspension or revocation of teacher licenses subjects the exclusion and subdivision 11 of

[00:13:23] SECTION 2.2-3705.3, PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.2-3711A40 OF THE CODE OF VIRGINIA, AND CONSULTATION WITH COUNSEL REGARDING SPECIFIC LEGAL MATTERS REQUIRING THE PROVISION OF LEGAL ADVICE, PURSUANT TO VIRGINIA CODE SECTION 2.2-3711A8 OF THE CODE OF VIRGINIA, AND THE LEGAL COUNSEL TO VIRGINIA BOARD OF EDUCATION STAFF WHOSE PRESENCE WILL AID IN THE BOARD'S CONSIDERATION of this matter participate in the closed motion has been made by mr hanson is there a second a

[00:14:01] second second okay i will do roll call um let's see dr bridges aye mrs mcpherson hi mr hanson dr northern hi dr wilson hi miss kilgore ah and chair rhodes bye thank you yes sorry oh i did not we are you're saying now we're going to go into closed session and great um the motion is carried

[00:14:36] the board is now in executive session all staff and members of the public have who have not been authorized to participate in executive session please exit the room at this time the board will reconvene in a public meeting immediately upon the conclusion of executive session and we will end the live stream officially right now and when we reconvene we will restart the live stream.

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