North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory has signed a bill into law allowing student-led prayer. The three-page law gives students equal protection to pray silently, out…
Forecasters are calling it the calm after the storm. The snow is done but the left overs are slushy roads and black ice with temperatures…
Virginia is experiencing downpours of snow across the region. Accumulations of snow likely. Most area school districts are closed or on a delay for Wednesday.…
The bitterly cold temperatures will remain at least through mid-morning. Expect sunny skies with increasing clouds by the afternoon with highs breaking into the 40′s…
A new report shows school segregation still exists in the Richmond area. This week the Civil Rights Project at UCLA released a report, “Miles to Go: A Report on School Segregation in Virginia, 1989-2010.” A professor from VCU who helped co-produce the report reveals that one in every three black students in the Richmond-Petersburg region goes to a […]
Governor Writes: “I remain very concerned about the affordability of post-secondary education for the young people of Virginia…..I need your leadership now in holding down in-state tuition and fee increases.” RICHMOND – Following General Assembly passage of a biennial budget that provides over $230 million in new funding for Virginia’s higher education system, Governor Bob […]
Education budgets have been slashed. Teachers are overburdened and underpaid. Now more than ever, parents need to offer a helping hand. According to a 2000 U.S. Department of Education Schools and Staffing Survey, 91 percent of teachers say lack of parent involvement is a problem in schools. Here are a variety of ways to get […]
