Our daily newsletter has headlines from the session and the impacts on Southwest and Southside Virginia RICHMOND - The state Senate on Monday on third reading approved legislation that would establish the School Construction Matching Grant Fund and Program, which would provide up to $2 billion in bonds to help localities repair aging and crumbling schools.

You don't have to know much about the ingredients to enjoy a good enchilada. Meat wrapped in a tortilla, topped with cheese and cooked in a saucy base, it's all fairly straightforward. But what students at Tyler Elementary in Gainesville may not have known about the lunch menu Friday afternoon is how close by many of its components were produced.

by: Sarah Fearing Posted: / Updated: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) - Like some other school divisions this budget season, Newport News Public Schools officials are recommending boosting most full-time employees' salaries and raising starting pay. Superintendent Dr. George Parker presented his proposed 2022-2023 school budget during a Newport News School Board meeting Tuesday night.

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. - Schools across Virginia are set to receive $1.5 million in federal funding to replace old diesel school buses. U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) announced $1,530,000 in federal funding awarded to school districts across Virgina through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Attorneys pleaded their cases before a U.S. District Court judge Monday in a case that could temporarily block SB 739 and allow for the return of mask mandates in select situations inside Virginia public schools.

CHESTERFIELD, Va. (WWBT) - Chesterfield school leaders are set to discuss expanding recess time for elementary school students at Tuesday's school board meeting. Right now, about 40 percent of schools have multiple recess times for at least one grade level. So those students have two 15-20 minute recesses instead of one 30 minute period.

The Scott County School Board met last Tuesday where major coaching changes were made to the Rye Cove High School's athletic department while the system's calendar committee and salary/fringe benefits committee presented their 2022-23 calendar along with suggestions for salary and fringe benefits. The board met at 6:30 p.m.

If you want to start school on the right foot, it often helps to make sure your shoes are tied tight. But first grade teachers at Stratford Landing Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia, noticed that a lot of kids were having trouble.