Amid K-12 teacher shortages, book bans and attacks over critical race theory, U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona at a meeting with reporters on Wednesday stressed the need for higher salaries to attract prospective educators to the profession. Cardona also touted the Biden administration’s recent student debt relief announcement in late August. The White House said President Joe Biden will cancel […]
Teacher advocates raise concerns over teacher pay, highly politicized working environments Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed an executive directive on Thursday that aims to address teacher shortages in Virginia through strategies that include hiring retired educators and targeting recruitment and retention efforts toward communities most in need. His directive comes as the nation and Virginia face shortages of teachers due […]
Education officials in Virginia have made addressing the student achievement gap a top priority in Virginia after standardized test results showed statewide declines. Virginia’s pass rates, which are calculated from the Standards of Learning and Virginia Alternate Assessment Program tests, showed that all students performed better in 2021-22, when districts had returned to in-person learning, […]
For more than 40 years, the idea of collective bargaining in Virginia was simply that: a pipe dream. As of Wednesday night, however, the dream has come one step closer to reality as the Prince William County School Board voted 7-1 to pass a collective bargaining resolution. What this means is that the resolution will […]
As the school year comes to a close, new opportunities are created in preparation for the next year. Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) has appointed Corey Harris as associate superintendent for middle schools. Harris fills the role as a second associate superintendent for middle schools, joining Catherine Porter-Lucas, who also serves in the role. Harris […]
Today Governor Glenn Youngkin received the Department of Education’s report “Our Commitment to Virginians: High Expectations and Excellence for All Students.” The education report builds upon Governor Youngkin’s direction in Executive Order One issued on his first day in office. The Governor affirmed his guiding principles to address troubling data trends and outlined policy recommendations […]
Back in 2020, the PW Perspective featured Barbara Rose Johns, who as a teenager, helped to organize a strike that led to the desegregation of public schools in Prince Edward County. Now, the school that she helped to integrate is finally getting recognized for its place in history, as well as other educational institutions. The […]
Organization has enough signatures to form a collective bargaining unit Back in December PWEA President Maggie Hansford wrote an editorial in the PW Perspective that specified the benefits for collective bargaining for teachers after a state law allowed for public sector bargaining for the first time in almost 50 years. Yesterday, it came one step […]
Local school administrators are pushing back on an interim report that rescinded equity initiatives at the Virginia Department of Education and calling on Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration to terminate a tipline for “divisive” teaching. In a Thursday letter, the Virginia Association of School Superintendents said the recent report made “gross assumptions” about public education in Virginia and failed […]
In a push to end “divisive concepts” in Virginia education, Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration is ending virtually all equity initiatives launched by the state’s Department of Education prior to the governor’s inauguration last month. The policy changes, announced in an interim report from the state’s Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow, hew closely to directives already issued […]
