Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, March 18, 1995 TAG: 9503210043
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BOB TEITLEBAUM STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LYNCHBURG LENGTH: Medium
By an almost 3-1 margin, the VHSL, beginning July 1, will be ruled by a 27-member executive committee. No longer will each school, through its principal, have one vote on every piece of legislation brought before the executive committee. The principals, by a two-thirds vote, still may overrule the executive committee, but it likely will take an extraordinary issue to bring about a veto of that type.
There nearly was no vote Friday because several principals questioned whether it was legal to make a decision after the same proposal had been defeated in the fall. VHSL officials had brought it up again under emergency legislation, got it past a first vote by mail this winter, then received the needed two-thirds majority on a required second vote Thursday for final approval.
A proposal to include ninth-graders in a school's enrollment to determine classifications was defeated. A school's classification still will be determined by the enrollment of grades 10-12.
As for balancing the state's regions, especially those in Group AA, a committee was established to collect data by talking to all schools and coming up with a proposal. That will be presented at the executive committee's September meeting, at which time all regions will be balanced as closely as possible in number of schools starting with the 1996-97 school year.
In one other piece of legislation, a proposal to add the pole vault to girls' track and field meets was rejected.
by CNB