A Loudoun County Circuit Court judge denied on Wednesday afternoon a political action group's request to release the "independent review" of the school division's handling of a pair of sexual assaults in two high schools. LCPS, which commissioned the review, has previously said the report would not be made public.

RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - A Richmond teacher is $30,000 richer after winning a nationwide competition held by the CIA. Rhonda Hawley, a teacher at Linwood Holton Elementary, was entirely surprised when she was presented with the check in her classroom. Her school principal kept it a secret until the last minute as Hawley jumped in the air out of excitement.

The newly selected superintendent of Fairfax County schools walked into her first Virginia classroom on Friday morning. WTOP was the first to sit down with her for an interview. Michelle Reid comes to the D.C. region from the Northshore School District in Bothell, Washington, where she has served as schools superintendent there, overseeing the 24,000-student district.

RICHMOND, Va. -- Hundreds of people gathered to honor the life of Samiyah Yellardy at United Nations Church on Richmond's Southside Wednesday. The 17-year-old George Wythe High School student was was killed after she was shot inside her home in the city's Bellemeade neighborhood early Sunday, April 10.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) - A Newport News middle school is piloting a new program to control the number of fights between students. From March until today, school staff say there have been at least eight fights at Gildersleeve Middle School.

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - "As a superintendent, as a teacher, as a mom, there isn't anything more important to me than school safety," said Verletta White, Superintendent of Roanoke City Public Schools. Safety. That's what 13 leaders inside and out of the Roanoke community came together to talk about at RCPS's Safety Summit Wednesday.

Petersburg City Public School Board met, voted, and approved the hiring of their new acting Superintendent, Dr. Julius Hamlin after approving the resignation of Dr. Maria Pitre-Martin. "We hate doing it [accepting resignations", but we have to do it," said School Board Chairman Kenneth Pritchett.

NEWPORT NEWS - Trying on a virtual reality headset in a fifth-grade geology class, U.S. Rep. Robert C. Scott got a chance to see something he had told Newport News School Superintendent George Parker he had wanted to see from COVID-19 relief money: innovation.

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - It's been weeks since a report on Lynchburg City Schools said the district has too many buildings. Factors include declining enrollment, school locations in relation to the population and the condition of buildings. Tuesday the school system heard more on the report in a board meeting, with a focus on demographics.

HANOVER, Va. (WWBT) - Hanover County Public Schools is offering a $1,000 sign-on incentive for new bus drivers. The incentive will be in addition to base pay and other benefits. Drivers who join the team between now and September will earn $500 after their first 60 days and $500 at the end of the first semester of the next school year.