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Virginia Beach City Public Schools Music Education Program Receives National Recognition for 16th Year
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For the 16th time, Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) has been honored with the Best Communities for Music Education designation from The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Foundation. Now in its 26th year, the Best Communities for Music Education designation is awarded to districts that demonstrate outstanding achievement for providing music access and education to all students.

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Virginia Beach City Public Schools Music Education Program Receives National Recognition for 16th Year
Virginia Beach City Public Schools Music Education Program Receives National Recognition for 16th Year (opens in new window/tab)

For the 16th time, Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) has been honored with the Best Communities for Music Education designation from The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Foundation. Now in its 26th year, the Best Communities for Music Education designation is awarded to districts that demonstrate outstanding achievement for providing music access and education to all students.

2025 Citywide Volunteers of the Year
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Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) values and promotes active engagement of the community in all our schools. The Office of Family and Community Engagement coordinates many volunteer opportunities for community members to interact and contribute to the academic achievement of our students and the overall continuous improvement of VBCPS.

2025-26 federal grant information presented to Virginia Beach School Board
2025-26 federal grant information presented to Virginia Beach School Board (opens in new window/tab)

The Virginia Beach School Board received information about proposed federal grant applications at its May 13 meeting. For the 2025-26 school year, Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) would receive approximately $21.6 million in formula grant funds through programs authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA).

Free and Reduced Price Meals 3-87

School Board of the City of Virginia Beach
Policy 3-87

BUSINESS AND NONINSTRUCTIONAL OPERATIONS

Free and Reduced-Price Meals

  1. Generally

    The School Board approves of the School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program free and reduced-price meals. The School Board shall annually consider the agreement and direct the administration to be in compliance with all aspects of the U.S. Department of Agriculture federal programs.

  2. Application Process

    The School Board further approves of prominently posting on its website a web-based application with the purpose of collecting information to determine student free and reduced-price meal eligibility. The School Board shall also continue to provide paper-based applications. Additionally, the School Board will ensure that at any back-to-school night event in the local School Division to which adult students or the parents/legal guardians of enrolled minor students are invited, any such adult student or parent/legal guardian in attendance receives prominent notification of and access, in paper or electronic form, or both, to information about application and eligibility for free or reduced-price meals for students and a fillable free or reduced-price meals application that may be completed and submitted on site. All web-based and paper-based applications shall be processed within six working days after the date of receipt of the completed applications.

  3. Participation in Payment

    The adult student or parents/legal guardians of minor students who qualify for reduced-price meals and whose school meal accounts have uncollected balances will be notified of the requirement to timely pay such costs. Uncollected balances that are not paid after notification will be referred for collection procedures.

  4. Protection of Anonymity of Students

    The School Board directs the administration to protect the anonymity of the student receiving free and/or reduced price-meals.

  5. Depriving Student of Lunch

    The Superintendent shall ensure that no student is denied a meal because of inability to pay all or part of the price of the meal.

Legal Reference

Code of Virginia § 22.1-207.2:2, as amended. School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program; web-based application.

Virginia Board of Education Regulations Governing School Lunch Sale of Food Items, 8 VAC 20-290-10, as amended.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Rules and Regulations, National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program: Nutrition Standards for All Foods Sold in School as Required by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, 7 C.F.R. Parts 210 and 220.

Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, 42 U.S.C. § 1751, as amended.

Adopted by School Board: October 21, 1969
Amended by School Board: August 21, 1990
Amended by School Board: July 16, 1991
Amended by School Board: February 16, 1993
Amended by School Board: August 19, 2014
Amended by School Board: July 12, 2022
Amended by School Board: June 12, 2023