Zetta Elliott, a Black educator, author and poet, spoke frankly with fifth-graders at Richmond's G.H. Reid Elementary on Friday morning about social justice and the lack of Black and brown children in books. She talked about how for years her books were tossed to the side by publishing companies, because "there's no market for books like yours."

Electric school buses will be coming to Fredericksburg City Public Schools, thanks to a $2.6 million grant awarded to the division by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality's clean school bus program. The grant will offset the purchase of 10 electric school buses and is part of more than $14 million being awarded by VDEQ to public schools throughout the state to replace diesel buses with electric.

YORKTOWN, Va. - One Yorktown teacher received the surprise of a lifetime. During this year's Teacher Appreciation Week, a third-grade teacher at Coventry Elementary School, Taylor Goodson, received a $25,000 Milken Educator Award. The $25K award was presented by the Milken Family Foundation during a school assembly.

RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - This week, Richmond School leaders will begin contacting families impacted by the River City rezoning. One week ago, the board voted to move some students from River City Middle to Lucille Brown, Boushall, and Binford Middle Schools to help with overcrowding.

U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger and Hermitage High School student Kayley Thomas. (Contributed photo) Hermitage High School student Kayley Thomas won the Seventh Congressional District Art Competition, earning the right to have her winning piece, titled "Sit-In," displayed in the United States Capitol alongside winners from other districts nationwide for one year.

CHRISTIANSBURG - Montgomery County schools will receive just under $600,000 through the state for purchase of two electric school buses, according to an announcement from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality this past week. The funding, $597,492, is part of more than $14 million being provided to public schools throughout the state to replace old diesel school buses with all-electric buses.

The Alexandria City School Board voted Thursday to make Narcan immediately available in city public schools. Narcan, or naloxone, is a prescription nasal spray that is designed to reverse opioid overdoses in minutes. A school official told WTOP Narcan will be available in all ACPS schools, where nurses and other designated staff would be trained to administer the medication.

Donna Evans has faced many challenges throughout her 21-year teaching career, the most difficult of which was the number of classes and students she had to teach. She has had a lot. Last fall, Evans had 254 students across her 12 art classes at Jack Jouett Middle School.

School boards across Virginia are dealing with sometimes hostile parents and potentially dangerous situations. But, they also have to manage the legal requirements for open meetings. "Public comment is now ended. We will move to our next agenda item..." That's the sound of a Loudoun County School Board meeting from last summer that, in retrospect, was a big mistake.

RICHMOND, Va. - Over $600,000 has been awarded to the Department of Criminal Justice Services to implement a crisis management enhancement project in the state's schools. Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced that the DCJS has been awarded $631,262 in competitive federal funding from the U.S.