Next year, Virginia schools will be required to administer SOL exams during the final two weeks of the school year. And they'll start getting harder.

It’s been two administrations, or about eight years, since school-aged children lived in the Virginia Executive Mansion. The historic building these days is the backdrop of games of Mario Kart, Monopoly and hide-and-seek. richmond.com/news/state-r...

Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger has chosen Jenna Conway to run the Virginia Department of Education as the state superintendent of public instruction.

State Democrats' reaction to Youngkin's new school accountability system ranges from tepid satisfaction to disdain. After Tuesday's JLARC report, all eyes will turn to Spanberger, who has not yet commented. richmond.com/news/state-r...

Del. Mike Jones won the Democratic primary tonight to seek the Senate seat of Lt. Gov.-elect Ghazala Hashmi. richmond.com/news/state-r...

Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares is urging voters who are backing Democrat Abigail Spanberger for governor to reject Jay Jones and support him for attorney general.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin said Virginia’s Standards of Learning tests that students take each spring were 30%-40% harder this year, but his education department cannot provide any documentation that substantiates the claim. richmond.com/news/state-r...

Richmond’s water crisis is trickling into the lieutenant governor’s race.

Looks like Virginia Attorney General primary is becoming classic Clean Virginia vs. Dominion Energy battle Clean Virginia is backing Jay Jones Dominion Energy is backing Shannon Taylor (and Jason Miyares too) Lot of money could get spent in closing days of campaign richmond.com/news/state-r...

Former VDOE leadership failed to follow state procurement rules when it extended a major student assessment contract worth nearly $83M, OSIG found. The state’s contract with Pearson is one of the biggest and most politically sensitive in state government.

In Virginia, about 82% of classroom teachers are women, but they make up only about 40% of school division superintendents — the top executives who oversee entire districts, according to a Richmond Times-Dispatch analysis.

Virginia’s Democratic nominee for governor Abigail Spanberger said today if she is elected governor, she would sign legislation to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin this week officially named former Deputy Secretary of Education Emily Anne Gullickson as the new state superintendent after naming her the acting superintendent following Lisa Coons’ abrupt resignation March 14. richmond.com/news/state-r...

Democrats use legislative tactics to force Sears to vote on contraception bill www.virginiascope.com/democrats-us...

A Democrat-controlled Va. Senate panel today removed Meg Bryce, Youngkin’s latest appointment to the state Board of Ed, and Yesli Vega, a Youngkin appointee to the state Board of Health, from a list of appointees requiring General Assembly confirmation.

Friday morning snow update. Timing still looks the same, just nudging up the totals a bit. Additional notes at link below. Final snow odds for Richmond: • 30 percent: 4-6 inches • 60 percent: 2-4 inches • 10 percent: Less than 2 inches

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Democratic legislators in Virginia’s House and Senate will seek to delay implementation of the state’s new school accountability system that is set to go into effect next school year. richmond.com/news/state-r...

The Powhatan School Board is suing firebrand education advocate Kandise Lucas and a local father in federal court following a series of 10 special education complaints filed by Lucas, which the School Board claims are baseless and “harassing conduct.”

Salgado resigned from his job as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice earlier this month so he could run for lieutenant governor.

Republicans in SD-10 nominated political outsider Luther Cifers early this morning to run in an upcoming special election. Cifers’ victory on the 3rd round of voting after 1 a.m. capped a six-hour spectacle in which more than 1,000 Republicans gathered in Goochland for a mass meeting.

I’m at the Senate District 10 mass meeting where Republicans will choose their nominee tonight to run for John McGuire’s state Senate seat in a special election. Registration ends 6:30 and people are still lined up outside waiting to register.

Virginia's K-12 enrollment has plateaued again with 624 fewer students this year and is still about 37K students down compared with pre-pandemic figures, a 3% decrease. The federal government predicted that the state will continue to lose students.

Del. Delores McQuinn, D-Henrico, announced her bid for reelection standing alongside most of East End Henrico’s elected officials. She faces a primary challenge from Henrico School Board Chair Alicia Atkins.

A favorable opinion from the AG would help fight against the incoming Rosie's, which the county says it doesn't want.

Youngkin announced today that he will propose a $290 million budget amendment for school construction — a preview into the budget proposal he will unveil Dec. 18 for lawmakers to consider when they amend the existing two-year spending plan.

One of Youngkin's promises was to raise cut scores, the number of questions students needed to get right to pass state tests, to the “highest in the nation” by spring 2023. But that never happened.

Trammell, a Louisa County farmer, ran for Congress in 2014 against Republican Dave Brat in VA-07. He is a college professor and sociologist at Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland and a former Hanover County Public Schools teacher.

Virginia will soon be one of only six states with mandatory exit exams for high school graduation, following decisions in Massachusetts and New York to remove the requirement.

The standards say climate change is happening, will have negative impacts & there are steps to find solutions. But there's no explicit connection that humans are the primary cause of climate change because of increased fossil fuel usage & CO2 increases.

Tonight, Republican leaders in SD-10 picked a Goochland site & changed the date of the mass meeting to select their nominee for McGuire's Senate seat. The mass meeting will happen Dec. 13 at the Goochland Rec Center. McGuire hasn't resigned the seat yet, so a special election date hasn't been set.

As school leaders across the U.S. prepare for the incoming Trump administration's potential impact on education, the superintendent of Virginia’s capital city is getting ready for what he sees as the 2 most immediate potential changes: mass deportations and the end of federally funded school lunches

Republican leaders in SD-10 last night set the process for choosing a nominee to run in the special election to replace McGuire. They will hold a “mass meeting” – not a firehouse primary – to choose its GOP nominee for the special election. Location TBD.

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced on Monday he is running for reelection in 2025 and not for governor.

Henrico County School Board Chair Alicia Atkins announced a campaign for the House of Delegates, setting up a Democratic primary with Del. Delores McQuinn, D-Henrico, in 2025.

A Dem-controlled Va. House panel advanced a proposed constitutional amendment on abortion that would give everyone "the fundamental right to reproductive freedom" and reduce the # of doctors required to sign off on a third-trimester abortion from 3 to 1.