Campbell County supervisors this week voted to approve major renovations to Brookville High School in coming years. The green light for the $40 million plan came just after the supervisors toured the new Rustburg Middle School project during their Tuesday work session. The new middle school is expected to open in January 2023.

PULASKI, Va. - The Pulaski County School Board is planning to vote on its final budget next week after learning how much money it will get from the state. Vice-Chair of the Pulaski County School Board, Timmy Hurst, said the school system is expected to receive an additional $3,400,00 in funding for the next fiscal year.

U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson said in court Thursday morning that he hasn't seen a case like this one in the entirety of his 20 years working as a federal judge: a federal lawsuit against the Henrico County School Board claiming that the school system denied a student adequate education.

Three decades after first stepping into an Amherst County classroom to teach, William Wells signed the contract on June 16 to become the county school division's new superintendent. Wells, a lifetime county resident who began his educational career as a social studies teacher at the then-Monroe Alternative School in 1993, has served the past four years as assistant superintendent of Amherst County Public Schools.

WAYNESBORO - At Tuesday's regular meeting of the Waynesboro School Board, Waynesboro Schools Superintendent Dr. Jeff Cassell reported that Virginia has not approved its budget for 2022-2023, however, the school system was required to move ahead with approving its proposed budget so the city can move forward with the budget process.

This article was written by WTOP's news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com's free email subscription today. Prince William County Public Schools has announced that Carol E. Flenard has been appointed deputy superintendent for the division, the second-highest position in the system after McDade's.

RICHMOND - Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow highlighted two summer meals programs available to Virginia families offering free nutritious meals to children 18 and under. The Summer Food Service Program and the Seamless Summer Option operate at schools, public housing centers, community centers, playgrounds, camps, parks and houses of worship.

FRONT ROYAL - Warren County Public Schools students could eat for free again next year even after the current federal program providing free meals ends this summer. Food Service Department General Manager Nickole Kinsey gave her report for most of the 2021-2022 year at the School Board's meeting last week.

The Department of Criminal Justices Services Board will give $5 million to local governments across the statefor school resource and security officer positions in the next fiscal year, including $463,000 to Portsmouth city government.

Since March 2020, Richmond Public Schools has purchased 36,783 Chromebook laptop computers for a total of $12.6 million, according to the division's financial records system. "The administration maintains that the purchase of 36,783 Chromebooks since March 2020 is fully appropriate," according to an audit memo presented to the School Board Tuesday night.