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The Virginia Beach School Board was notified of an alleged sexual assault in a bathroom at First Colonial High School last month. This email promoted the division to launch an investigation but without the name of the source of the information or any official reports filed with the school, officials are at a standstill.

Parents and students were upset that a Virginia Beach school board member’s comments targeted a much-needed educational program, but supporters of her say she meant no harm.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin promised parents he would eliminate critical race theory in schools, a term that has become a framework for anything controversial. But some are raising concerns that it’s an attempt to roll back progressive efforts to provide Virginia K-12 students with an equitable, inclusive education.

Virginia Beach School Board votes down effort to make mask-wearing optional next fall Sara Gregory, The Virginian-Pilot © Kristen Zeis/The Virginian-Pilot Shay Coleman speaks during public at a Virginia Beach School Board meeting at the Virginia Beach School Administration Office on Tuesday, July 20, 2021. The board voted against a resolution Tuesday that would make indoor and outdoor mask-wearing optional if the state does not require them. The Virginia Beach School Board voted down an effort to make mask-wearing optional next fall. The decision doesn’t mean masks will b...

Sara Gregory, The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot Nothing has ever ravaged classrooms worse than the COVID-19 virus, but the most impassioned discourse in American education right now has nothing to do with the pandemic. Instead, as the leader of Hampton Roads’ largest school district put it, a panic over lessons on so-called “critical race theory” is dominating the public’s attention. “All this noise is starting to drown out the ‘why’ of our work as educators,” Virginia Beach Superintendent Aaron Spence wrote in a Virginian-Pilot column last week...