Over the last three weeks, Petersburg High School students have been learning from home after the school’s heat pump burst on Jan. 4, leaving parts of the school without heat.
Since the Chesterfield School Board's vote to make masks optional in schools, there's been mixed reactions coming from parents and teachers about the topic.
A Virginia Senate committee has killed legislation that would have required parental consent for students to check out sexually explicit books from school libraries.
One Chesterfield teacher is ready to hand in their resignation, after Chesterfield School Board voted to give parents the choice on whether to mask or not.
Come Thursday, Chesterfield parents won’t have to mask their kids in school. Following a 2-3 vote, Chesterfield County Public Schools is among the latest districts falling in line with Governor Glenn Youngkin’s executive order.
"Adam's Law" includes hazing prevention training for students and requires colleges and universities to publicly post reported hazing incidents online.
In an announcement on Wednesday, Virginia State University announced they will return to in-person classes and reopen their athletic events to spectators.
During Monday’s school board meeting, the supervisor of District 2, John Roark, said Nottoway County Public Schools (NCPS) did nothing to address the incident which occurred in Oct. 2021.
Chesterfield school leaders voted last week to keep the mask mandate for the time being, but that could change during a special meeting set for Tuesday afternoon.
A “very small number” of the 59,000 students and staff in Henrico County Public Schools (HCPS) showed up on Monday without a mask, according to a HCPS spokeswoman.
Richmond, Henrico and Chesterfield Education Associations met Monday morning, calling on district leaders to keep masks mandatory for all students and faculty while on school grounds.
During a school board meeting Monday night, Richmond Public Schools presented a problem they’ve been seeing throughout their school district - chronic absenteeism.
School districts in Central Virginia are continuing their conversations on Gov. Glenn Youngkin's executive order on masks, which allows parents to decide whether or not their child will wear a mask in the classroom.
Virginia State University said it would no longer require employees to be fully vaccinated, report their vaccination status or get tested for COVID in compliance with Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive directive.
School districts across Virginia are adopting an inconsistent patchwork of responses to an executive order from Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin that aims to allow parents to opt-out of classroom mask mandates.
In direct opposition to the governor’s statewide mandate, the school board voted to uphold its masking policy, which requires students, staff and teachers to wear a mask while in school, regardless of vaccination status.
Following executive orders and directives regarding COVID-19 from Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Virginia Commonwealth University is changing COVID-19 vaccination policies for employees.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s first executive orders and executive directives have local colleges and universities making changes to their employee vaccination policies.
Between rising case counts and staffing shortages, Virginia’s public schools were already facing plenty of challenges at the start of the fall semester. Then came supply chain problems.
Over the weekend, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed executive order two, which says parents of children in elementary and secondary school can elect for their child not to wear a mask, and they don’t have to provide a reason why.
In the wake of a recent surge of COVID-19 cases, Colonial Heights Public Schools is going virtual for the remainder of the week. Chesterfield County Public Schools is also requesting 7,000 take-home test kits for their students and staff.
Virginia State University announced on Friday that all classes will be modified for the first two weeks of classes and not allow any spectators at home basketball games.
