When emergency first responders arrive on the scene at a school to respond to an active attacker or a fire or medical emergency, seconds count. That's why the state is giving schools divisions the opportunity to update their blueprints using state funding.

PETERSBURG, Va. (WWBT) - Petersburg's 2022 Teacher of the Year had an extra special surprise on Monday morning. The school division surprised Walnut Hill Elementary School teacher Dorothy Patterson with a billboard along Interstate 95. The billboard is near the Wythe Street overpass. Copyright 2022 WWBT. All rights reserved.

With fewer than two months before the start of the new fiscal year and no state budget closure in sight, Amherst County Public Schools officials recently expressed frustration with the wait. The angst was discussed during the Amherst County School Board's May 12 meeting during a report on the latest finances monitoring.

The Henrico School Board voted May 12 to approve a revision to a policy governing nonresidents attending Henrico County Public Schools.

In a night that included proposed policy revisions about parental review of instructional materials, school board members punted a decision on one Language Arts textbook. While "Open Court Reading" for students in kindergarten through fifth grade easily received unanimous approval for adoption, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's "Into Literature" for grades sixth through 12th did not.

The Arlington School Board unanimously approved a $749.9 million budget for the 2022-23 school year during its meeting Thursday night. Revenue for the Fiscal Year 2023 budget includes a $563.8 million ongoing transfer from the county, a one-time transfer of $20.5 million, $3.5 million in carry-ov

HOPEWELL, Va. (WWBT) - Attention teachers, Hopewell City Public Schools is looking to fill PreK-12 teaching vacancies by hosting a teacher recruitment fair this Saturday. The event will be from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the School Board Office located at 103 North 12th Avenue.

Eight people are vying for one seat on Hanover County's School Board. The Mechanicsville District seat on the seven-member board expires June 30. Hanover is one of 16 localities in Virginia that appoints its School Board members. There's no public election; rather, board members are appointed by the county's Board of Supervisors for four-year, staggered terms. The Mechanicsville supervisor is W.

Financial records show that Spotsylvania School Board Chair Kirk Twigg approved the use of school division funds to pay for two board members to attend a conference sponsored by a conservative political action committee. Twigg denied the requests of two other board members to attend professional learning conferences this year sponsored by the Virginia School Board Association, emails show.

TwitterRussian President Vladimir Putin hosted a meeting of the Russian-led military alliance, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), on Monday on the 30th anniversary of its founding-but the meeting was anything but celebratory.Instead, the heads of state from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, which make up the collective defense organization, akin to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, went to the Kremlin Monday in Moscow to lament the world's response