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The Fairfax County School Board recently approved a resolution allowing for collective bargaining among public school employees, and the Falls Church School Board is expected to follow suit sometime soon. School divisions across Virginia are starting to unionize.
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Lawmakers in Richmond are debating what kind of books should be allowed in public school libraries.
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Republicans want to set up a system notifying parents when their children have checked out a book from the school library. They want to create a system of identifying sexually explicit content. And they want model policies for school libraries to know which content is OK to put in the collection and which content is not.
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The idea that schools should get credit for improving student performance is a controversial one.
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Until a few years ago, Virginia was one of the few states in the country where collective bargaining was unavailable for teachers. Now, public school employees across Virginia are trying to get collective bargaining ordinances. And new research from the Commonwealth Institute says collective bargaining helps the student experience, staffing, retention and educator pay.
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The vast majority of schools in Virginia are fully accredited. More than 1,600 schools are making the grade while fewer than 200 schools are not.
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The way Virginia funds schools puts a heavy burden on local governments to help pay the bills, and that creates wide disparities in places where local governments can afford more compared to places that are already struggling to make ends meet.
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In the next few weeks and months, school boards across Virginia will be considering new policies to make sure parents are notified when schools will be using sexually explicit materials in the classroom.
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In Virginia, law enforcement officials are the only people allowed to carry guns into schools. But some firearms advocates say Virginia should join the two dozen other states that allow people who are not police or security officials to carry guns into schools.
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This summer, Congress added the Moton Museum and other sites that played an important role in desegregating schools in South Carolina, Delaware and Washington, D.C. to the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Park in Topeka, Kansas.