Virginia Daily Education News

VIRGINIA DAILY EDUCATION NEWS

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

The Virginia Daily Education News is a daily update (Monday through Friday) of education news throughout Virginia. Links are created to various media outlets throughout the state.

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Virginia General Assembly Adopts Budget

The Virginia General Assembly met Monday and adopted the 2024-2026 biennium budget.

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Virginia budget includes plans for Hampton Roads: Toll relief funding, skill games, gun violence prevention and more

The General Assembly will reconvene for a special session Monday to discuss and vote on the $188 billion spending plan. Details of the plan were made public Saturday.

Hampton woman 'dedicated to helping the kids' named Virginia's Elementary Counselor of the Year

Sheila Barnhart-Ramirez has been a school counselor for about two decades at the elementary and middle school levels. Last month, she was named the state Elementary Counselor of the Year by the Virginia School Counselor Association.

School Board votes for Arlington Career Center contract with no prevailing wage agreement

The Arlington School Board has approved construction of a new Arlington Career Center building without a guarantee of paying workers a prevailing wage.

Williamsburg asks joint school district to improve city students' performance as potential breakup looms

A recent study shows Williamsburg students underperform compared to James City County students in the same joint school district.

Lacey Spring Elementary, Spotswood Garden Club unveil new outdoor learning space

Lacey Spring and the Spotswood Garden Club have been collaborating on hands-on projects for several years.

Many Virginia students still separated by race, economic class

Nearly 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education, the all-white schools of the past have all but vanished and have been replaced by schools with almost exclusively students of

Why Fairfax schools may lock student cell phones up during class

The Fairfax County school board approved a motion to start a pilot program for the secure storage of cellphones in classrooms.

Textbook decision tabled in Montgomery County after questions about process

It was a question of buy the book or by the book at a Montgomery County School Board Meeting this week. A decision on which English textbooks to purchase for the county's elementary school students was delayed after school board members learned that two competing vendors were not treated equally...

Budget details revealed: No new tax increases, no additional tax relief, more than $2.5 billion in K-12 funding

The General Assembly is set to consider the $188-billion spending plan during a special session on Monday.

Virginia child care rating system aims to improve kids' school readiness

Virginia has implemented new guidelines to establish a unified rating and improvement system to assess the commonwealth's publicly funded early childhood care providers.

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