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Virginia AAPI Caucus, Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, And Virginia Latino Caucus Call for Resignation of Chief DEI Officer

The members of the Virginia Asian American and Pacific Islander Caucus, Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, and Virginia Latino Caucus call for the resignation of the Youngkin Administration’s Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, Martin D. Brown. Recently, Brown said that “DEI is dead” and called diversity the “wrong mission” at a recent annual “inclusive excellence” […]

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Board of Education will again consider chronic absenteeism in school accreditation decisions

by Virginia Mercury Virginia will again begin evaluating schools’ efforts to get students into classes regularly as part of school accreditation decisions after the Board of Education rejected a request from Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration.   Last Thursday, with student absences due to illness still high, the Department of Education recommended suspending the use of chronic […]

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Virginia relying more heavily on provisional licenses to fill teacher shortages

by Virginia Mercury As teacher shortages continue in Virginia, the state is attempting to stave off further educational impacts by granting more provisional licenses.  The commonwealth issued a total of 8,434 provisional licenses in 2021-22 compared to an average of 6,787 in the years before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a November report from Virginia’s Joint Legislative […]

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A Woman to Remember

by Denise Roosendaal As we wind down this month of March, also known as the National Woman’s History Month, I’ve been thinking a lot about Ida B. Wells. She was a woman to remember. Born into slavery in 1862 in Holly Springs Mississippi, she lost her parents to the yellow fever epidemic in 1878 and […]

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