CAMPBELL COUNTY, Va. - Campbell County Public Schools unveiled two new, electric buses and charging stations Friday at Leesville Road Elementary. The local, family-owned Sonny Merryman Bus Company built the wheels and says it's the future of transportation. "Electric is where it's going. I mean, it's no question about that," said Floyd Merryman.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A federal appeals court has granted a request from a Virginia school system to continue using a challenged admissions policy while it appeals a ruling that found it discriminates against Asian American students.

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WWBT) - Chesterfield County Public Schools has filled all their bus driver positions in the district, but there may be a big need for teachers in the upcoming school year. On Friday, a spokesperson for Chesterfield County Public Schools said the district has about 200 teacher openings for the upcoming school year, but the spokesperson said this number is likely to increase.

Isle of Wight County's School Board has declined to remove two programs from school-issued iPads, which at least one parent says provide "dangerous and sensitive material" to children. Candice Vande Brake, the mother of a Windsor Elementary School kindergartner, started the process outlined in School Board Policy KLB several months ago for challenging books and [...]

ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) - There has been a rash of school lockdowns including in the southwest, central Virginia school districts. The latest incidents included a lockdown at Appomattox High School and E.C. Glass in Lynchburg as well as a gun going off inside Lucy Addison Middle School in Roanoke.

Pinchbeck Elementary School (Henrico Citizen file photo) The Henrico County School Board has been served with a request for judicial review following a years-long dispute between school district staff members and the family of a student with disabilities.

DUBLIN - Several classmates decked in protective green jackets and helmets watched as sparks illuminated the space where Cory Phillips worked a piece of metal with a tool he and the other students call a "MIG." Phillips, a senior at Pulaski County High School, said he was demonstrating a process that basically uses gas to melt metals and ultimately attach or fuse them together.

WINCHESTER - Seven-year-old Kiah Anderson sat in her classroom at Quarles Elementary School Thursday morning and held Moby Duck, a duckling she and her fellow second-graders hatched in an incubator. Moby is one of three ducks that have been raised in teacher Nicole Hobson's classroom these past few weeks as part of a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) learning project.