Schools

President Biden recently announced he wants to end childhood hunger in the U.S. by 2030, and increase access to nutritious foods. One of the strategies he announced is to provide more federal funding for schools who buy locally sourced fruits and veggies. But there are logistical challenges to connecting farmers with cafeterias. Schools in southwest Virginia are trying to bridge the gap.

New guidance by the CDC no longer recommends that people exposed to COVID-19 quarantine at home, as long as they are asymptomatic and test negative. Public schools in Virginia and universities have recently released their own recommendations for students and teachers; they too are relaxing several precautions.

One of Governor Glenn Youngkin’s first executive orders has yet to affect most of its target, schoolchildren and their parents, as most school districts have continued to require masks in schools.

A presentation by budget planners Tuesday revealed the extra obstacles school closures face to education funding, two years out.

An appointed advisory board recommended that the state address racial achievement and opportunity gaps by diversifying and training teachers, and also…

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe is vetoing a controversial measure that would have required schools to notify parents when teachers planned to use…