Next year, Virginia schools will be required to administer SOL exams during the final two weeks of the school year. And they'll start getting harder.

It’s been two administrations, or about eight years, since school-aged children lived in the mansion.

Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger has chosen Jenna Conway to run the Virginia Department of Education as the state superintendent of public instruction.

Lt. Gov-elect Ghazala Hashmi, the outgoing chair of the Senate Education and Health Committee, said the system needs to give more weight to students' progress, not just their proficiency.

Del. Mike Jones won the special Democratic primary election on Sunday for the right to seek the state Senate seat of Lt. Gov.-elect Ghazala Hashmi.

Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares is urging voters who are backing Democrat Abigail Spanberger for governor to reject Jay Jones and support him for attorney general.

In response to a public records request from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Virginia Department of Education said: “There are no records from Pearson saying the tests were 30-40% harder.”

Former Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney says he wishes the prior city administration, led by Mayor Dwight Jones, had fixed the city’s water plant issues that led to the Jan. 6

The ad faults the Henrico County commonwealth's attorney for accepting donations from utility Dominion. Taylor faces former Del. Jay Jones in the June 17 Democratic primary.

The state inspector general found that the former leadership at the Virginia Department of Education did not post a request for bids on the state’s online procurement system.

In Virginia, about 86% of classroom teachers are women, yet women make up only about 40% of school division superintendents — the top executives responsible for overseeing entire school districts.

Virginia’s Democratic nominee for governor, Abigail Spanberger, said if she is elected governor, she would sign legislation to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour.

A former middle school history teacher, Emily Anne Gullickson led the education reform organization A for Arizona before she joined the Youngkin administration in 2023.

Democrats in the state Senate pulled a political maneuver to force Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears to cast a tie-breaking vote on a bill involving a woman’s right to contraception. Sears, who voted ...

A Senate panel removed Meg Bryce, a member the state Board of Education, and Yesli Vega a member of the state Board of Health, from a list of Gov. Glenn

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Legislators in Virginia’s House and Senate will seek to delay the state’s new school accountability system that is set to go into effect next school year.

The Powhatan County School board is suing education advocate Kandise Lucas and Powhatan father Todd Skinger in federal court.

Victor Salgado, an Arlington County attorney and law professor, is joining a crowded field of Democrats vying for the lieutenant governor nomination.

Cifers prevailed after 1 a.m. Saturday in the third round of voting at the Goochland Rec Center. The candidates included Louisa Supervisor Duane Adams and former state Sen. Amanda Chase.

Public school enrollment ticked up slightly over the last year in Chesterfield and Henrico counties and the city of Richmond, while dipping slightly in Hanover County.

Del. Delores McQuinn, D-Henrico, announced her bid for reelection Tuesday evening.

The senator is asking Miyares for an advisory opinion to clarify whether or not the legislative history around historic horse racing should cover machines in Henrico County.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Tuesday that he will propose a $290 million budget amendment for school construction.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin promised to raise cut scores - the number of questions needed to get right to pass state tests - to the “highest in the nation” by spring

No other Democrat filed to run for the Senate seat of Congressman-elect John McGuire. Republicans will pick their nominee in a Dec. 13 mass meeting.

Virginia will soon be one of only six states with mandatory exit exams for high school graduation, following decisions in Massachusetts and New York this month to remove the requirement.

The Virginia Board of Education is set to approve new environmental science guidelines to the state standards early next year.

On Tuesday night the 10th Senate District Legislative Committee decided to hold the mass meeting at the Goochland Rec Center and changed the date to Friday, Dec. 13.

Superintendent Jason Kamras said his administration is preparing for what he sees as the two most immediate potential changes from a Trump administration: mass deportations and the end of federally

Republican leaders in Senate District 10 will host a mass meeting to choose a nominee to run in the special election to replace Sen. John McGuire, R-Goochland, who is heading

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced he is running for reelection next year. Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears or Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-7th, would be the first woman elected governor.

Henrico School Board Chair Alicia Atkins announced her campaign for the House of Delegates, setting up a Democratic primary in 2025 between herself and Del. Delores McQuinn, D-Henrico.

The constitutional amendment would give every person "the fundamental right to reproductive freedom" and reduce the number of doctors required to sign off on a third-trimester abortion from three to