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Alleghany Highlands School Board Chair Jacob Wright has been appointed to the Virginia School Boards Association's Legislative Committee.

Whether or not they remember it, the first day of kindergarten is a milestone everyone experiences only once. Except if that person is Braeden McGrath. McGrath, now a high school senior, doesn't remember his first day as a kindergartener, but he does remember the day he found himself in a new classroom, speaking a new language.

Stafford County Public Schools is proposing a $24.2 million investment in improving staff salaries as part of its operating budget for next fiscal year. "We are a system of people, not things," division superintendent Thomas Taylor told the School Board on Tuesday evening.

Franklin City Public Schools has launched a program designed to close the learning loss achievement gap. FCPS Interim Superintendent gave a presentation on the Enrichment Day Program during a joint meeting of the Franklin City Council and School Board.

The Franklin County School Board is beginning the process of hiring a new superintendent. First, it is seeking public input on qualifications. The board created this survey that will end Monday, February 6. There are hard copies available at each county school and at the school board office.

CBS 6's parent company, E. W. Scripps, has teamed up with the News Literacy Project - a nonpartisan, national education nonprofit. As part of News Literacy Week, CBS 6 talked with TV production and journalism students at Louisa County High School.

George C. Hummer was named the 15th superintendent of Frederick County Public Schools on Tuesday night, closing a nearly seven-month search for the division's next leader. Hummer stood at the podium in the School Board meeting room and inked a contract that made the appointment official.

A proposal to require all local School Boards in Virginia to contain a student member went down to defeat in a House of Delegates subcommittee Jan. 24. The measure - patroned by Del. Alfonso Lopez (D-Arlington-Fairfax) - would if passed have directed all School Boards that do not currently have a student to put in motion plans to add one.

A Virginia House subcommittee voted down a bill that its sponsor said would bring transparency to the state's Standards of Learning (SOLs) revision process.