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Faced with alarming teacher shortages, some states, including Arizona, are fast-tracking teacher credentials.

Faced with alarming teacher shortages, Virginia is partnering with a for-profit online teacher credentialing company.

After a years-long process, the Virginia Board of Education on Thursday adopted its latest version of history and social science standards that will go into effect during the 2025-26 school

A box of tissue and a hand sanitizer bottle inside a Virginia classroom. (Nathaniel Cline/Virginia Mercury) Virginia education leaders are mulling another temporary pause in the use of chronic absenteeism as a factor the state considers in school accreditation decisions because of increases in student absences due to the spread of COVID-19 and other respiratory

RICHMOND — Throughout his tenure, Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration has focused on the need to “raise expectations” in Virginia public education. As proof…

Fairfax County, Virginia, school officials are pushing back on the state’s highly-scrutinized proposed history and social science standards of learning, calling some of them misplaced at certain grade levels, inaccurate and, in some cases, missing critical information.

The Department of Education is considering taking out chronic absenteeism as a factor that determines a schools accreditation.

Dozens of educators, parents, students & others attended and spoke at the Virginia Department of Education's public hearing at Jamestown Settlement in Williamsburg.

Opponents of the rewritten standards remained in the vast majority, but more backers of the revisions attended Mondays hearing.

Last month, the state board of education unanimously rejected standards from Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s team.