The School Board approved a $535 million budget, but Mayor Stoney's proposed budget only allows for $237 million − a decision that has left many educators enraged.
Spring ought to be a time of relief and promise. The days are longer and seemingly a bit sunnier, and the end of the school year is around the corner — and with it, the hopes of graduation days ahead.
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney said he has not read the recently released investigation report into RPS' handling of the circumstances surrounding a deadly shooting outside a graduation last year.
School Board members did not learn until Wednesday - in one of the report's exhibits - that RPS Superintendent Jason Kamras had acknowledged and apologized for the inconsistencies in a
On Wednesday, community members finally got to see the third-party report reviewing Richmond Public Schools' handling of the June 6 graduation day shooting.
Two people were killed in the shooting, including a Huguenot High School graduate, whose graduation took place at the theater shortly before the shooting.