Education

Families of children with autism are bracing for a heated Montgomery County School Board meeting over proposed staffing changes in special education. 

A children’s book that includes illustrations of animals mating will remain on the shelves of several Orange County middle school libraries after a divided school board vote, despite objections from some parents and board members.

This past Saturday, 86 speakers voiced concerns about the proposed redistricting plan presented by Fairfax County Superintendent Dr. Michelle Reid.  There were speakers who came back Tuesday and were planning on continuing to express their displeasure, but some changed their remarks.

The Fairfax County School Board meets Tuesday to review the district’s Capital Improvement Program, and parents are expected to speak out about proposed boundary changes the board will vote on later this month.

Allegations of a school social worker paying for student abortions are untrue, according to a Fairfax County Public Schools external investigation.

Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Michelle Reid presented her recommended School Boundary Review changes to the school board Thursday night. However, parents trying to participate didn’t get to hear the presentation until closer to 10 p.m., when many need to get themselves and their families out the door early the next day.

A late night school board meeting in Fairfax County went well into the evening as parents expressed concern over the school superintendent’s recommended school boundary changes, which would affect thousands of students. 

Several key meetings are coming up in Fairfax County Public Schools’ boundary review, and one major challenge may be bus transportation.

A police officer for the Granbury Independent School District is going viral thanks to a video that shows his incredible strength. He pushed a broken-down school bus full of children out of traffic.

A federal appeals court has ruled that Loudoun County Public Schools can limit what parents say during school board meetings, specifically when it comes to calling out or criticizing individual students by name or talking about them in a way they can be identified.

Montgomery County Public Schools is set to hold a School Board meeting Thursday night. A peak at the public comments submitted shows a majority of testimony is on the future of Crown High School, which has become a point of contention for many parents in the Gaithersburg area. 

This year, the Virginia Department of Education rolled out a new accountability system, one that separates school accreditation from overall student performance. Under this model, all 13 high schools in Prince William County fell short.

On Tuesday, the Dept. of Education announced that it had reached a proposed settlement agreement that, if given court approval, will end the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) student loan repayment plan.

A Montgomery County high school was placed on lockdown Friday after police say a gun was recovered following a fight between two students.

Former Harvard president Larry Summers has been barred from one of the most prestigious scholarly associations in the country over his close ties to Jeffrey Epstein.