Northside Middle School eighth-grade math co-teachers Ruby Voss and Amber Benson were recognized Monday at their school as the Association for Middle Level Education's National Educators of the Year. Voss and Benson will receive their award at a national conference in Orlando, Fla., in November.

WINCHESTER - Hours after leading city School Board members on a tour of the still-being-renovated Douglas School, Winchester Public Schools Director of Operations Ed Smith gave an update on work being done to convert the historic building into the school system's new administrative offices.

When a friend told Lesliean Luna that Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia was recruiting native Spanish speakers in San Juan, she didn't hesitate. The circumstances for teachers in Puerto Rico are challenging, Luna said.

For nearly an hour Tuesday afternoon, Open High School students in Richmond gathered outside to denounce the Youngkin administration's new model policies that walk back protections for transgender and nonbinary students. The students chanted "Say No to Glenn," a nod to Gov.

The Rockingham County School Board voted 3-1 on Monday against a policy that would require schools to notify parents if a student wants to be called by another name than the one that is on their school records. School Board member Lowell Fulk was absent.

Corie Mboh's son was referred to the Prince William County Schools Special Education program when he entered kindergarten. He was having difficulty regulating his emotions and behavior, so teachers at his school agreed he'd be best off with an individualized education program, or IEP as it's commonly referred to, and a new school: PACE East, which has since been rolled into Independence Nontraditional School.

ABINGDON, Va. - Crystal Breeding, the United Way of Southwest Virginia's manager of youth success, welcomed around 4,500 seventh-grade students from across 19 Southwest Virginia school districts to the first in-person Ignite Career Expo for Youth since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic Tuesday.

With the cost of building a new high school coming in millions over budget, members of the Halifax County Board of Supervisors and School Board will sit down Wednesday night to talk about what to do next. The joint meeting of the two boards is set for 6:30 p.m.

(Updated 09/27/22) High school football season is in play, but this year, fewer students in Arlington Public Schools will be in the stands cheering on their friends. That is because Arlington County Police Department does not have enough officers to staff events, police spokeswoman Ashley Savage tells ARLnow.

Amidst a record-setting amount of school books being banned over racial or sexually explicit content in the last year nationwide, Loudoun County Public Schools is updating how they communicate with parents about controversial books and instructional materials. The school board's Curriculum & Instruction Committee on Thursday approved an updated policy on "controversial and sensitive" curriculum standards.