The Virginia Parent Teacher Association on Saturday held its first annual membership conference since the pandemic began, gathering days after the Youngkin administration released a critical report about the state’s K-12 public school performance.
Virginia’s K-12 school performance is backsliding due to reduced expectations for students and schools and a lack of transparency, resulting in widening achievement gaps, according to a critical new assessment from Virginia’s superintendent of public instruction.
The massacre in which a white gunman stormed into a Buffalo, N.Y., grocery store and killed 10 Black shoppers and employees underscores that schools should teach about “so-called ‘divisive’ concepts,” Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras says.
Within a recent 60-day period in Chesterfield County, 48 people charged with assaulting a family member were released by a county magistrate without having to post a bond.
Henrico County’s Board of Supervisors approved an emergency ordinance that extends the due date for personal property taxes and vehicle license fees through August, while also setting a public hearing on the matter for June 14.
Still without a formal agreement with descendants of A.P. Hill, the city of Richmond is seeking a court order to move the Confederate general’s monument and his grave from the intersection of Laburnum Avenue and Hermitage Road.
The city of Richmond’s next annual budget will include a $17 minimum wage and a pay increase of at least 5% for all city employees starting July 2.
Spikes in local personal property taxes due to the continued high values of used cars, trucks and motorcycles are prompting localities to give back some of that unanticipated revenue.
A total of 1,600 public housing residents in Richmond are behind on rent.
Henrico County leaders say they’ll be the first in Virginia to use an amended law that becomes effective July 1 which allows localities to give surplus revenues from personal property taxes back to taxpayers.
More than 200 people gathered at the Montana State Capitol in Helena Tuesday to rally for abortion access after a draft opinion was released suggesting the U.S. Supreme Court will vote to overturn its landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
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Richmond Public School construction officials are progressing with replacing the aging George Wythe High after the School Board finally ended its monthslong deadlock over the capacity of the new building last month.
Fresh from resolving a funding dispute with the city's school division, the Richmond City Council is entering another education policy debate that could impact where children attend school.
Chesterfield County’s redistricting plan has received the green light from the Virginia Attorney General’s Office after months of back and forth.
Hundreds of Virginians who oppose abortion gathered near the state Capitol on Wednesday morning for the annual March for Life rally. People of all ages were in attendance, from young children to elected officials, bishops and priests.
The Richmond City Council reached consensus Tuesday to draft two dozen amendments to the city’s next annual budget, adding $3.7 million in additional expenses but not everything that some agencies and officials sought.
Elena Camacho and organizers from the New Virginia Majority — a statewide advocacy organization that focuses on issues facing immigrant communities — are helping to bring awareness to the untenable living conditions of Richmond's largest Latino neighborhood.
The vote marks the end of a months long stalemate between officials over how to replace the aging school building in South Richmond and whether it should be smaller to save money for other school construction projects or bigger to accommodate anticipated population growth.
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Council members said they expect to hit the ground running Monday, as Mayor Levar Stoney's administration had submitted its responses to amendment requests.
The Richmond Ambulance Authority is seeking $3.5 million in new annual funding from the city administration to help retain and hire more emergency medical technicians and paramedics.
Richmond area bus riders may need to start paying GRTC fares again this summer if the transit company is unable to come up with money to match a state grant subsidizing its fare-free policy.
With the goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030 — and eliminating it completely by 2050 — the city of Richmond is seeking public input on its plans to hit those targets.
Members of the Richmond City Council have submitted approximately $50 million in budget amendment requests as the city’s governing body prepares to pass a spending plan for the next fiscal year.