The Roanoke and Roanoke County school systems are offering cash incentives to try to fill bus driver vacancies. The transportation contractor for Roanoke City Public Schools announced a hiring bonus of $4,000 and a job fair later this month to receive applications.

RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - During an RPS budget meeting Wednesday, talks shifted towards the future of the now condemned William Fox Elementary School following last week's massive fire. Fox students and teachers returned to school virtually Wednesday, but Kamras says his attention was set on a more permanent location.

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) - A proposed facility plan to consolidate and demolish aging buildings in Norfolk Public Schools has people in the community asking for a say in the process. One phase of the draft plan looks at closing Madison Alternative School and moving Madison students to Lindenwood Elementary.

STAUNTON, Va. (WVIR) - The "Great Resignation" is impacting businesses all across the country, including Staunton City Schools. The school district is dealing with a teacher shortage, and Superintendent Garett Smith says it is a crisis. Smith says schools are understaffed, teachers are underpaid and overworked, and there's no one to replace the teachers leaving the field.

CHRISTIANSBURG - A Montgomery County School Board meeting briefly became rowdy Tuesday, prompting the elected body's chairwoman to leave for the remainder of the night after being directly targeted by a local right wing activist over masking.

Several Northern Virginia school systems are taking a wait-and-see approach to a new law that bans mask mandates in state schools. One school system has announced plans to roll back its requirement, but that might not be soon enough for some parents.

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - "As part of the Gun Violence Prevention Commission, we did a lot of studying in the first year. One thing that became very clear is that there was a pipeline between children who were not reading well in early elementary school and ending up in the prison system or committing violent crimes," said Rabbi Kathy Cohen, a Commissioner on the City's Gun Violence Prevention Commission.

One Community One Voice announced today that the Bank of the James is sponsoring the B. I. K. E. program at R. S. Payne Elementary School. The Believe In Kids Excelling Program gives students the opportunity to be rewarded with a bike for good grades, attendance and behavior in school.