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 […]
Today, Governor Glenn Youngkin announced an additional initiative to address learning loss through a tutoring partnership between the Urban Leagues of Hampton Roads and Greater Richmond and four Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Norfolk State University, Hampton University, Virginia State University, and Virginia Union University. The program will employ HBCU students as tutors and mentors […]
Staff’s draft PWDG Plan does Three Important Things ! 1. Protect the Occoquan Reservoir.· A heightened emphasis on environmentally sensitive site design, including the preservation of environmental resources and tree canopy is recommended in the Plan, in order to ensure that data centers blend into their natural surroundings. Later rezoning applications which seek to implement the Plan will […]
All three ratings agencies, Moody’s, Fitch and S&P Global, have affirmed Prince William County’s AAA credit rating. The county plans to sell bonds competitively on Oct. 25, and the ratings were obtained in advance of that sale. The proceeds of the bonds will support the school division’s capital program. The county’s growing and diversifying tax base was […]
