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The Virginia Department of Education under Gov. Glenn Youngkin has created a new tier of upper-level positions in the department that come with a high price tag. At the same time, the department has seen an exodus of longtime staff and top-level staff from the department this year after a new state superintendent took over as head of the agency in April.
The Virginia Department of Education under Gov. Glenn Youngkin has created a new tier of upper-level positions in the department that come with a high price tag. At the same time, the department has seen an exodus of longtime staff and top-level staff from the department this year after a new state superintendent took over as head of the agency in April.
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