Under the new law, Virginia's Department of Education has until the end of 2020 to create a policy that establishes a baseline for the way transgender students in the Commonwealth's public school districts must be treated. From Gavin Grimm's years of legal struggles...
Hundreds Rally At the Virginia Capitol For Education Reform
Dressed in red and demanding that the General Assembly "Fund Our Future," Virginia's teachers showed up in force at the Capitol building Monday. Bells chiming through Capitol Square were drowned out Monday as hundreds of education advocates dressed in red chanted for...
Sex Ed Is Key to Reducing Teen Pregnancy, Advocates Say
States requiring schools to teach sex education have lower teen pregnancy rates; some say high teen pregnancy rates in some Virginia localities are a direct result of the lack of a sex ed requirement in the Commonwealth's schools. In the early 2000s, Martinsville, a...
VA law requires mental health training for school counselors
More than 20 percent of children in the U.S. have or have had depression or other serious mental disorder, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Soon, school counselors in Virginia will be in a better position to help identify students with such...
Post-Accreditation, Former and Current Teachers Assess the City’s State of Education
Richmond’s public schools are deep into the 2018-2019 semester, with midterm exams on the horizon for some, and the long shadow cast by the condition of the city’s education hanging over all. That condition, detailed in a report released on September 27 by the...
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