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Morgan Sweeney | September 9, 2023 (The Center Square) — Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced his ALL IN VA plan, intended to help Virginia students recover from COVID-19 learning loss and return to higher academic standards, on the heels of the announcement of the Virginia Assessment Results for the 2022-23 school year. The plan is the latest […]

Morgan Sweeney | August 24, 2023 (The Center Square) — Virginia’s Attorney General Jason Miyares issued an opinion today, arguing that the governor’s model policies comply with federal and state nondiscrimination laws and that “local school boards are required to adopt policies that are consistent with them.” The opinion comes at the request of Gov.

Morgan Sweeney | August 14, 2023 (The Center Square) — Gov. Glenn Youngkin is leading a ‘Parents Matter’ town hall tour across the commonwealth to engage Virginia parents on crucial issues impacting youth. The tour began over a month ago in Salem, and since then, the governor has spoken at Bristow, Richmond and Fredericksburg –

Morgan Sweeney | August 5, 2023 (The Center Square) – Every year around this time, Virginians get a sales tax holiday for one weekend before the start of school. But this year, Virginia’s sales tax holiday for select school-readiness, hurricane preparedness and utilities items may itself be on holiday. Though predicted to be an “unparalleled” and

Morgan Sweeney | July 31, 2023 (The Center Square) – The Virginia Board of Education has approved the first lab school in the state, something Gov. Glenn Youngkin has been pushing for since he took office.  Virginia Commonwealth University has selected CodeRVA Regional High School as its lab school. Both are in Richmond. The schools

Morgan Sweeney | July 27, 2023 (The Center Square) — More than 1,100 people registered to attend the 2023 Virginia School Safety Training Forum, which will address roughly 20 topics pertaining to school safety and student well-being. The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services and its Center for School and Campus Safety partner with several other organizations,

Morgan Sweeney | July 21, 2023 (The Center Square) — Virginia entered the fiscal year on July 1 without a revised budget for the first time in over 20 years due to a lack of consensus in the General Assembly – to the tune of roughly $1 billion. Virginia operates on a two-year budget that

Morgan Sweeney | July 13, 2023 (The Center Square) – The Virginia Board of Education took another step in its efforts toward improving students’ literacy when it approved a new list of core instructional programs for grades K-3 on Thursday. “I believe that the Board of Education’s vote to approve these research-based literacy programs will prove