Krysti Albus taught multiple subjects for 20 years and now teaches early childhood special education. She saw many colleagues leave the classroom in the middle of the year for better-paying corporate jobs. “What we have had to go through to have a net income of...
Civil Rights Trail Adds 12 New Sites With Focus On Education Struggle
Virginia’s Crossroads Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail recently added 12 new sites, including Twin Lakes State Park in Prince Edward County. The half-mile road leading to a park in Prince Edward County was packed with cars parked on one side and a park ranger...
Black Children More Likely To Live In ‘Concentrated Poverty’
Nearly 100,000 Virginia children live in high-poverty neighborhoods; that figure includes 15 percent of Virginia's African American children, but only 2 percent of the commonwealth's white children. African American children are more than seven times as likely as...
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