All five Northern Virginia spellers competing in this week's Scripps National Spelling Bee advanced to the third round Tuesday. The spellers, including one of the youngest in the bee, 9-year-old Siya Sampath of Prince William County, were among 139 of the 231 competitors to advance through both of Tuesday's early rounds.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. - A teacher from Chesapeake is being honored with a state award. Caren Daniel, from Hugo Owens Middle School, has been named Virginia's Computer Science Teacher of the Year. The honor is given out every year by the Virginia Department of Education.

DANVILLE - Fourteen Danville Area High School students in an AP science class and their chaperones spent parts of four days at field study school offered by Chincoteague Bay Field Station, located on Virginia's Eastern Shore, between the Atlantic Ocean and ecologically important Chesapeake Bay.

Magna Vista High School principal Duane Whittaker gave his school's graduates two pieces of advice and two things to remember as he addressed the Class of 2023 on Saturday morning. The first piece of advice was to always sit in the front row.

HAMPTON, Va. - There are 250 projected teacher vacancies for Hampton City Schools for the 2023-2024 school year. This is a number that has led administrators to create a comprehensive plan to tackle the looming issue.

The Carroll County Board of Education was updated at its May 9 regular meeting on work to craft a potential, new Electronic Communication Devices policy for the school division. The update presentation was made by Director of Instruction Marlin Campbell and Carroll County High Assistant Principal Jay Holderfield.

Sophomores at three Virginia Beach high schools got an important lesson outside of the traditional classroom. Unlike a typical school day, the curriculum's goal was to make sure the students were distracted. Teens were schooled on the dangers of distracted driving by spending time in a virtual reality-distracted and drunk driving simulator.

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) - A lucky Midlothian teacher got a special surprise from the Virginia Lottery on her last day before retirement - a complimentary vacation and a big prize for her school. As part of this year's Thank a Teacher campaign, 68,000 thank-you notes were sent to K-12 public school teachers across the state.

A Loudoun County judge is ordering the school system to make public its internal investigation into two sexual assaults and a rape that occurred on school grounds. The ruling is a win for Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, who has been fighting to expose how he says the school district mishandled the incidents.

A Hanover County School Board member wants to remove 17 books from school libraries. The discussion about potentially removing books comes as the school board considers a policy change in how it assesses the suitability of books in its school libraries.