School Board Meeting, October 13, 2026

The October 13, 2026, Virginia Beach School Board meeting focused mainly on proposed course offerings and updates to instructional programs. Presentations covered anatomy and physiology, an IB German pathway, changes to dual-enrollment business and philosophy courses, and new AP business with personal finance and AP cybersecurity courses. The anatomy course has an estimated $15,000 initial supply cost already included in the budget; the business-course materials and summer-course costs were also described as covered by existing budgets. IB German would use existing staff and require no additional textbook costs, while AP cybersecurity was presented with no new budget impact. These presentations were informational in the transcript, with no course-approval votes recorded. The board also approved a personnel report and administrative appointment, and heard public comment about elementary technology access and teacher workload.

The consent agenda passed 10–1, and the board separately approved the annual 2025–26 field trip report and an easement for Hampton Roads Transit to install and maintain a bus shelter at Renaissance Academy; the easement runs with the deed in perpetuity. The shelter is part of HRT’s Phase 9 capital improvement program, and the transcript identifies no school-division construction or maintenance cost. The board also approved the meeting agenda and prior minutes.