Education Section

The forty-five lawyers in the Education Section provide advice, counsel and guidance to the Commonwealth's educational institutions, including the Commonwealth's public colleges and universities and museums, all under the Secretariat of Education. For the Department of Education and K-12, this guidance often directly influences local schools in implementing the Standards of Learning and Standards of Quality, providing access to technology for disadvantaged students, maintaining discipline and safety on school grounds, complying with federal education programs, and improving school facilities. Virginia’s fourteen colleges and twenty-three community colleges are self-contained communities with the full range of legal needs: campus safety and security, admission and educational quality issues, personnel issues, the proper relationship between colleges and the Commonwealth, contracts, procurement, and financing. The education section also provides legal services to Virginia's museums.

 

Institutions and Agencies Represented:
Secretary of Education	University of Virginia-Wise	Department of Education
Christopher Newport University	Virginia Military Institute	Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind
College of William and Mary	Virginia State University	State Council of Higher Education for Virginia
George Mason University	Virginia Tech	Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
James Madison University	Richard Bland College	Science Museum of Virginia
Longwood University	Virginia Community College System	Library of Virginia
Norfolk State University	Virginia Institute of Marine Science	Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation
Old Dominion University	Southern Virginia Higher Education Center	Frontier Culture Museum
Radford University	Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center	Gunston Hall
University of Mary Washington	New College Institute	Museum of Natural History
University of Virginia	Ash Lawn-Highland	Virginia Commision for the Arts
Virginia Commonwealth University

 

 

Deb Love

Senior Assistant Attorney General/Chief

Education Section

Office of the Attorney General
202 North Ninth Street
Richmond, VA 23219