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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

Morgan Sweeney | July 12, 2023 (The Center Square) — A report released Monday indicates Virginia’s K-12 education system has received inadequate state funding for years — and Republicans and Democrats are blaming each other for the results. The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission staff reviewed Virginia’s K-12 funding formula – the mechanism used to

Sarah Roderick-Fitch | June 8, 2023 (The Center Square) – The Virginia Department of Education released a report on recommendations for the General Assembly, and the status of the commonwealth’s commitment to promote excellence in education. Leaders and stakeholders met to evaluate and recommend specific policies and performance standards for public education in the commonwealth. The

Sarah Roderick-Fitch | May 22, 2023 (The Center Square) – Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has joined nearly two dozen state attorneys general imploring the Biden administration to protect female athletes by upholding Title IX. The opposition from the coalition follows a proposal from the Department of Education to allow biological males to compete in