Even before the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas , the Fauquier County School Division was working to increase security at all 20 elementary, middle and high schools for the upcoming school year. That work includes adding secure vestibules at the front entrances of schools, a work in progress due to funding and supply-chain issues.

Schools across Virginia are dealing with a major teacher shortage. The Great Resignation is hitting classrooms across Virginia as teachers leave the profession. Chad Stewart at the Virginia Education Association says it's a trend driven by low pay for teachers, a shortage of support staff and fallout from the pandemic.

A planned performance at a Bedford County high school is now at the center of a controversey.

Isle of Wight's School Board no longer expects to need the roughly $812,000 county supervisors voted to "set aside" in May from the school system's 2022-23 budget. Virginia's now-approved state budget allocates Isle of Wight County Schools $296,457 more than the school system had anticipated.

WINCHESTER - Frederick County Public Schools newly appointed interim superintendent J. David Martin has resigned just three weeks after being named to the post. The School Board accepted Martin's resignation Tuesday night on a 6-1 vote. He resigned for personal reasons, it was stated at the meeting.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) - Richmond Public Schools (RPS) is facing a teacher shortage after 25% of the school system's teaching staff resigned at the end of the 2021-2022 school year. As a result, RPS is now looking to fill 176 positions before the upcoming school year starts in August.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) - The Virginia Board for Barbers and Cosmetology voted to reduce the number of hours required to obtain a cosmetology license from 1,500 hours to 1,000. The board, under the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation (DPOR), conducted the vote at its most recent meeting on July 11.

Three men are accused of "illegally relocating" thousands of Fairfax County, Virginia, Public Schools' laptops. Franque Minor II, 35, of Maryland, and Mario Jones Jr., 21, of Woodbridge, Virginia, were arrested and charged with embezzlement and larceny with the intent to distribute.

STAUNTON, Va. (WHSV) - Staunton City Schools has introduced changes to its student handbook and code of conduct, looking at things like poor school standing, alternative school, cell phone use and vaping. When students return to the classroom in August, poor school standing will be reinstated.

62458 random 1.0 5.0 Some Henrico students watched in awe as their science experiments were launched into suborbital space on a NASA rocket at 5:30 a.m. June 23.