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As Virginia faces a severe teacher shortage, the PREP Act aims to address workforce diversity and quality enhancement.

Florida governor and 2024 presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis has defended his state’s new Black History curriculum, which directs educators to teach that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” 

With the new fiscal year well underway, Virginia’s governor is touting his accomplishments across the commonwealth but still can’t get lawmakers to agree on how to spend the state’s $3.6 billion budget surplus.

The tentative deal represents a huge win for full- and part-time UPS Teamster workers, who would get significant pay raises and better working conditions. If approved by rank-and-file union members, the deal will also avert a strike that could have been one of the “costliest in US history.”

The board may become the first to decide whether or not to adopt the Youngkin administration’s new model education policies that critics say trample on transgender students’ rights.

Over $1 million will go toward preserving state-owned historic sites including the Belle Isle Manor House, the Timberneck House at Machicomoco State Park, the submerged Siege of Yorktown Battlefield, and Fort George. Four historical sites in the commonwealth got a big boost this month. Over $1 million will go toward preserving the state-owned locations, thanks…

Meeting new people as an adult can be daunting—especially when you’re hoping for a friendship connection. So we’ve put together a list of dozens of specific, easy, and affordable places in Virginia where you can go to scope out a potential pal.

anthony heflin // Shutterstock People entered U.S. national parks nearly 312 million times in 2022, up by 15 million visits from the year before, according to the National Park Service. Eight of these federally-owned and protected parks garnered 26% of visits, and another 25% of visits came from the 331 least-visited parks. President Woodrow Wilson…

A military veteran who stormed the U.S. Capitol with a loaded pistol, metal-plated body armor and a gas mask was sentenced on Wednesday to seven years in prison, one of the longest among hundreds of Jan. 6 riot cases.

This week, Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Department of Education released a new model policy regarding how transgender students should be treated in K-12 schools.