IV. Office of the Secretary, 2001-2006.

Containers:
Box 65-804
Extent:
Extent: 8.40 cubic feet (24 boxes).
Scope and content:

The Office of the Secretary series is housed in 24 archival boxes and is arranged into two subseries. Subseries have been designated for: A. Correspondence of Secretary Belle Wheelan (2002-2005) and Secretary Peter Blake (2005-2006), 2002-2006; and B. Files of Sarah Finley, Deputy Secretary of Education. This series documents the Office of the Secretary's response to primarily constituent correspondence. This series contains correspondence from Belle Wheelan's (2002-2005) or Peter Blake's (2005-2006) as well as the files of Deputy Secretary Sarah Finley .

Some of the notable correspondence in this series relates to the following topics: No Child Left Behind, Tuition Assistance Grant (TAG) program, education funding, Standards of Learning (SOL), budget cuts in state aid to public libraries, college tuition increases, teacher salaries, consolidating the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind, school vouchers, PASS initiative, in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, Virginia Tech admission policies, University of Virginia parking garage, Virginia Tech's admission to the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Mary Washing College name change, and proposal for a new university in the Martinsville-Henry County region.

Also included are Deputy Secretary of Education Sarah Finley's files.

Access and use

Location of collection:
Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Archives Reference Services
Phone: (804) 692-3888
Parent restrictions:
Collection is open to research.
Parent terms of access:
Privacy protected and confidential information is restricted from public access for 75 years per Code of Virginia 42.1-78. If redaction was not an option, the entire document was sealed, but not removed from the collection. Sealed information may include, but is not limited to: attorney-client privileged documents, medical information, social security numbers, and official student records. Attorney-client privileged documents are closed indefinitely.

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