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(Updated at 7:30 a.m.) To no one's surprise, the Arlington electorate has turned out in a big way for the Democratic ticket. Former Vice President Joe Biden and

Ed Talk is a biweekly opinion column. The views expressed are solely the author's. October is Dyslexia Awareness Month. Dyslexia impacts 1 in 5 people, or 20%

(Updated, 2:50 p.m.) A new, free literacy program has come to Drew Elementary School thanks to the local non-profit Sliding Doors, Virginia Tech, and the local

May 17 marks the 67th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the landmark Supreme Court case that overturned the doctrine “separate but equal,” which became law in 1896 when Plessy v. Ferguson upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities, as long as the segregated facilities were “equal” in quality. In Brown, the Court unanimously held that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” and violated the equal-protection clau...

Ed Talk is a biweekly opinion column. The views expressed are solely the author’s. Esther Cooper started the Arlington branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1940 to fight for educational equality of Black students in Arlington Public Schools (APS). Under her leadership, the NAACP sued the school board challenging the inequalities in the county’s Black high schools. In Carter v. School Board of Arlington Co. (1950), the Fourth Circuit Court of A...

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The pandemic has shown us that reopening schools safely should not be left solely to school districts. Local governments have a critical role to play both

It’s important to have these conversations | US Capitol riot brings personal discussions at the dinner table Following the violent and deadly uprising at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, parents spoke to WUSA9 about discussing the event with their children. Author: Tom Dempsey (WUSA) Updated: 4:13 PM CST January 11, 2021 WASHINGTON — Following the violent and deadly insurrection at the US Capitol on Wednesday, many parents all across the country have spoken to ...

The Arlington branch of the NAACP plans to use its institutional knowledge to help build bridges to the future, its recently re-elected president said. “You don’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been,” said Julius “J.D.” Spain Sr., who on Dec. 14 was sworn in for a second two-year term of the 650-plus-member body. It has been a busy year for the civil-rights organization, Spain said, but one that has seen its members rise to the tas...

The current upsurge in Arlington COVID-19 community spread may be great enough to require APS temporarily not to provide in-person instruction widely, but independent experts and APS’s own data establish that virtual learning causes serious harm to thousands of children, especially our community’s youngest and most vulnerable. These are the critical steps that both APS and Arlington County government must join together to take NOW to address our community’s instructional crisis: make vir...