Meet 37-year-old Brandon Williams, a high school dropout turned entrepreneur from Miami Gardens, Florida, who has teamed with his 18-year-old son to launch CEO Financial Literacy Academy, one of the only such non-profit schools in the country that is Black-owned. Brandon dropped out of high school in 2003, but later went back to earn his GED, […]
It was supposed to be a part-time job. But the workload, travel requirements and responsibilities made Keturah Lee’s IT program management position as stressful as any full-time job. The Northeast Washington resident was working for a federal agency less than 30 hours a week when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020. “But I was doing […]
County Employees celebrate collective bargaining ordinance passing and county’s commitment to 90-day review WOODBRIDGE, VA — After many months of advocating for their rights, employees united in SEIU Virginia 512 and their allies made history. Members of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors passed a collective bargaining ordinance, giving county employees a path to […]
Recently, the Youngkin administration has come under fire for recommendations of changing the Virginia public school curriculum standards for History and Social Science. Makya Little, a candidate for the 19th House District of Delegates, released a statement: “In 2019, before meeting with the Northam administration to express my concerns regarding how Virginia and U.S. history […]
by Virginia Mercury The Virginia Board of Education delayed its review of new history and social science standards proposed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration to January after a nearly eight-hour-long meeting Thursday. The board directed Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow to revise the newest standards, which were finalized Nov. 10, to include content from […]
In a letter sent yesterday, Sen. Jennifer McClellan (D-Richmond) urged the Virginia Board of Education to reject the Department of Education’s proposed revised Virginia History and Social Science Standards of Learning. McClellan called on the Board to move forward instead with the standards presented to the Board in August, which were developed by a panel […]
by Virginia Mercury A number of groups are questioning new history and social science standards proposed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration ahead of a Board of Education meeting to begin reviewing them Thursday. Critics from diverse communities and lawmakers, most recently in a Nov. 15 letter to the governor and school officials, argue the new standards are […]
by Virginia Mercury Prince William County is the last big Northern Virginia jurisdiction to consider granting collective bargaining rights to public employees, but labor organizers say the county’s draft plan is so filled with holes they have major doubts about whether they can support it. In a strongly worded letter to the Prince William Board […]
by Guest Column, Virginia Mercury Recently, a tremendous amount of attention has been paid to the decline in student achievement in Virginia since 2019. Simply enter any combination of “Virginia,” “NAEP,” “SOL,” “cut scores,” “higher expectations” and so on, and a plethora of news articles, op-eds and reports will fill your screen. Rightly so. Ensuring […]
After issuing a request for proposals, Prince William County Community Services has selected Connections Health Solutions (Connections) as the Crisis Now Vendor to operate the county’s new Prince William Crisis Receiving Center (CRC). While Community Services reviewed other qualified responses to the RFP, Connections, a nationally recognized leader in behavioral health crisis care, was selected […]
