Committees

Cultivating meaningful, collaborative relationships with students, families, staff, and community members is a core value of the School Board and division leaders. The division believes in taking an intentional approach to ensuring families, students, team members and community members have a voice, and believe their feedback, input and participation is meaningful and valued. One method involves inviting individuals to participate in division-level committees.

Annually, the School Board appoints individuals to identified advisory councils or committees of citizens of the school division for consultation with reference to specific matters pertaining to local schools. Advisory committee members include individuals interested in helping York County School Division achieve its mission and goals.

School Board Advisory Committees

Additionally, departments may convene ad-hoc committees to engage individuals in developing a recommendation to the superintendent and/or School Board on a specific topic. Details about the purpose of ad-hoc committees, meeting agendas and minutes, and status reports to the School Board can be found below.

2024-25 Ad-Hoc Committees:

Cell Phone Policy Committee

Updates on the policy development will be provided at each School Board Work Session prior to the policy taking effect division-wide when students return from Winter Break on January 6, 2025.

Division Presentations on Executive Order 33

• Division Presentation - September 9, 2024
• Division Presentation - October 14, 2024

Executive Order 33 Background

June 9, 2024

Governor signs order requiring cell-phone free environments, to enhance student health and safety, to be implemented by January 2025

Summer 2024

Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) holds listening sessions and public hearings to gather community feedback.

August 15, 2024

VDOE releases Draft Guidance for school divisions on policies and procedures to establish cell phone-free education and remove cell phones and personal electronic communication devices from Virginia’s public schools and classrooms.

September 16, 2024

VDOE releases final guidance, which consists of six main parts:

1. Introduction
2. Definitions
3. Model Guidance for Elementary, Middle and High Schools
4. Exemptions
5. Emergency and Non-Emergency Communications (for both schools and families)
6. Local School Division Policy Considerations.

Executive Order 33 Resources

• Executive Order 33
• VDOE Draft Guidance
• VDOE Guidance
• Commonwealth Conversation on Restoring Childhood Through Common Sense Approaches to Social Media and Cell Phones
• Today Show feature: Inside Look at Schools Banning Cellphones