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Jahd Khalil has this report from Richmond. The bill was originally composed of one line proposed by a Senator, Siobhan Dunnavant (R-Henrico), that simply required schools to offer in person learning immediately, due to an emergency clause. After a number of Senate Democrats joined Republicans to pass the bill without the emergency clause, House Democrats have been shaping the bill in that chamber’s education committee. Credit AP Photo / Keith Srakocic, File The bill would require school districts to offer in-person learning for students, if the children’s parents opt for it. It requires t...

Teachers, parents, and doctors weigh-in on face-to-face learning during the pandemic Katie Woodard and her two children are among the thousands of Virginia families who have been learning through virtual instruction since the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly shuttered schools last March. In the months since, a patchwork of virtual, in-person, and hybrid learning models have developed across the Commonwealth, but Governor Ralph Northam is now calling on all school districts to make an in-person learning plan known by March 15, 2021, citing CDC research that showed school-based transmission of the v...