Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 22.1 > Chapter 27 > Article 1 - Purpose.

• Educational records: means those official records, files, and data directly related to a student and maintained by a school or local education agency, including records encompassing all the material kept in the student's cumulative folder such as general identifying data, records of attendance and of academic work completed, records of achievement and results of evaluative tests, health data, disciplinary status, test protocols, and individualized education programs. See Virginia Code 22.1-370
• Local education agency: means a public authority legally constituted by a state as an administrative agency to provide control of and direction for kindergarten through grade 12 public schools. See Virginia Code 22.1-370
• parents: means any parent, guardian, legal custodian, or other person having control or charge of a child. See Virginia Code 22.1-1
• Process: includes subpoenas, the summons and complaint in a civil action, and process in statutory actions. See Virginia Code 1-237
• Sending state: means the state from which a child of a federal employee serving under orders pursuant to Title 22 or 50 of the United States Code is sent, brought, or caused to be sent or brought. See Virginia Code 22.1-370
• Student: means the child of a federal employee serving under orders pursuant to Title 22 or 50 of the United States Code and who is formally enrolled in kindergarten through grade 12. See Virginia Code 22.1-370
• United States: includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-255