Administrators and educators say they are under siege by both the public and political leaders as they mandate masks and set other policies to block the spread of COVID in their classrooms. A new DeSantis Administration rule allowing Florida students designated as close contacts to stay in school if they are asymptomatic could drive teachers away from the profession, says Andrew Spar, president of the Florida Education Association union.

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on a lot of things in the last 18 months, and one of those was the homecoming festivities at high schools across Virginia during the 2020-21 school year. With the Virginia High School League opting to postpone the 2020 football season to early 2021 and Gov.

School districts across Hampton Roads saw a decline last year in the rate of students who received the required sequence of immunizations to be eligible for enrollment in a public school, according to state data.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC)- Service has been restored at state agencies after another network outage on Thursday but a new report reveals more resources are needed to prevent future problems, particularly from cyber attacks. On Friday, the Virginia Information Technologies Agency confirmed the outage was caused by a fiber cut during an external construction project and that it lasted about 90 minutes.

Charlottesville City Schools is planning to offer schools nurses a $5,000 stipend because of additional responsibilities that they have taken on during the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said recently. The announcement comes as Charlottesville and other school divisions are struggling to fill vacancies and seeking to keep current nurses on staff.

Kerry Higdon's 10-year-old son Kol has attended private school, public school, and a Montessori school, but he never thrived no matter what type of school. "He's so bored that he acts out," said Higdon, who lives in Edinburg. So when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020 and schools began virtual learning, Higdon took the opportunity to try homeschooling.

BERRYVILLE - Teachers in the Clarke County Public Schools perhaps will have the most challenging year of their careers, their bosses acknowledge. It won't be a picnic, either, for students whose learning suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall results of state Standards of Learning (SOL) exams taken last spring allude to their setbacks.

Superintendent Chris Holland said Friday that the Accomack County School Administration is closely watching developments concerning COVID-19 but intend to try to remain in session if at all possible. Holland said that the school system is in daily contact with the Eastern Shore Health District and requires all students both on busses and at school [...]

The issue of masks dominated September's meeting of the King William County School Board, a meeting that went into recess because some members of the audience refused to wear masks. The board closed down the meeting for about 10 minutes because approximately 10 people in the audience refused to comply with the order to wear masks.

Teacher shortages are nothing new, but David Jeck, superintendent of Fauquier County Public Schools in Virginia, is having an especially hard time hiring them this year. Jeck, of course, is hardly alone: In state after state, district after district, school officials are struggling to hire teachers as the coronavirus pandemic affects a third school year.