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The Virginia Board of Education voted to advance a controversial draft of new K-12 history standards Thursday. But they’re still a long way from being used in the classroom.
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House Democrats are furious about a Department of Education mistake in calculating basic state aid for school divisions across Virginia – a mistake that’ll cost more than $200 million to fix.
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In the latest step of a contentious revision process, new draft K-12 history standards have been delivered to the Virginia Board of Education.
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Dual enrollment is a way for those students to get ahead before even starting college. Now lawmakers are considering how to make access more equitable.
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Many credit Joe Gaither for life lessons as much as sports.
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Localities will be able to apply for state money to help build, renovate, or update school buildings. The General Assembly has allocated about half a billion dollars for the new competitive grants.
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The comments came as Virginia’s Board and Department of Education continue to struggle through a divisive and confusing process of re-writing the state’s history and social studies SOL standards.
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A new report says it will take time to reverse the learning loss fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic. Lawmakers have a number of recommendations that could help the recovery.
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The National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, are reading and math tests given to a sampling of students every two years across the country. The results are known as the Nation’s Report Card. And the nation is not doing well.
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The idea that schools should get credit for improving student performance is a controversial one.