8 Va. Admin. Code § 20-340-5
The following words or terms when used in this chapter shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Board" means the Virginia Board of Education.
"Correspondence school" means a school, organization, or other entity, no matter how titled, that teaches students by mailing them lessons and exercises that upon completion are returned to the school for grading. Such lessons or exercises also may be transmitted and graded by electronic means.
"Course" means the presentation of an orderly sequence of material dealing with an individual subject area, such as driver education.
"Department" means the Virginia Department of Education.
"Home instruction" means the teaching of a child or children by a teaching parent in the home as an alternative to meeting the requirements of compulsory attendance as defined in § 22.1-254 of the Code of Virginiaand as a means of complying with § 22.1-254.1 of the Code of Virginia.
"Parent" means any parent, guardian, legal guardian, or other person having control or charge of a child as specified in § 22.1-1 of the Code of Virginia.
"School" means a correspondence school for driver education programs.
8 Va. Admin. Code § 20-340-5
Statutory Authority: §§ 22.1-16 and 22.1-205 of the Code of Virginia.