Seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remains below national rate of 6.2 percent Governor Ralph Northam today announced that Virginia’s unemployment rate fell to 5.2 percent in February, which is 2.7 percentage points above the rate from one year ago. Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate continues to be below the national rate of 6.2 percent. “While our […]
Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, Toni Morrison, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. all attended Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs.) Unfortunately, many children are unaware of these institutions. With HBCU Prep School’s help, author Claudia Walker has written and published The ABCs of HBCUs to raise awareness about Black Colleges. From A to Z, The ABCs of HBCUs gives […]
Despite being an elected official for only a few short months, Delegate Candi King (D-2nd) has already made a major impact, especially in the field of education. Among the many bills that she has supported during the General Assembly, the most significant one was HB 2316, which requires the Board of Education to amend its […]
The Prince William County School Board Announced on Wednesday that they have chosen LaTanya McDade as the school system’s new Superintendent following Dr. Steve Walts’s retirement at the end of the school year. The vote was an unanimous 8-0 in favor of the appointment. With previous experience as a teacher and a principal, McDade currently […]
In 1969 a new television program entered our living rooms that became the gold standard for children’s educational programming as Sesame Street debuted. The show not only educated children but also went on to address some of the more difficult topics that families often struggled to talk with their children about, such as when a […]
Dante Lee, an entrepreneur and HBCU grad who started his marketing and PR firm while on campus, estimates that he has helped more than 1,000 Black-owned businesses generate $90,000 in revenue or more since the pandemic began. A graduate of Bowie State University class of 2002, he is infamously known as a marketing genius and […]
Listen to any campaign within the Commonwealth and the cries are the same: We need to do more for our teachers. Whether it’s on the local or state level, every person with aspirations of winning their primaries and general elections have made it a foundation of their campaigns. This was echoed even louder by Democratic […]
At the March 24, 2021, School Board meeting, the School Board will appoint the new superintendent to replace Dr. Steven Walts upon his retirement June 30, 2021. After a nationwide search, including input from recruiting firm BWP and Associates as well as from surveys by the community, the new superintendent will be revealed during the […]
How the new service addresses educational inequities for Black and Hispanic students Governor Ralph Northam today announced the launch of a new free advising service to assist Virginia students and families applying for financial aid and help address the COVID-19 related decline in completion rates of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. […]
A panel of education leaders tasked with envisioning an equitable school system for Virginia’s Black students has offered recommendations it believes will give those students better access to advanced classes and promote teacher diversity, among other improvements. The African American Superintendent’s Advisory Council, a group of educators formed in September, found that in the 2018-19 […]
