Jackson Davis Elementary School third-graders and their Cedarfield senior living community pen pals met for the first time at the school May 22, 2025 (Gareth Woo for the Henrico Citizen).
Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger’s administration is promoting Jenna Conway, a state education leader, to become the next state superintendent of public instruction. The administration has also named Connor Andrews as deputy secretary of education.
The announcement on Tuesday is the latest move by the incoming administration to shape the
TroopCompanion, a mobile app developed by students Faribah Nuha, Jay Chauhan, Obaloluwa Ogunade, and Jack Gardner of Deep Run High School in Glen Allen, recently won the 2025 Congressional App Challenge for Virginia’s First District.
U.S. Congressman Rob Wittman, who represents the district, made the announcement in December.
A resolution on how the state measures students’ performance in history and social science was delayed for two months during the Board of Education’s business meeting on Thursday, giving Virginia and social studies leaders time to reach a compromise.
Measuring student success helps address a number of factors, including
The wealthiest private high school in the United States has an endowment of more than $1 billion, with many other private schools following suit with endowments in the millions.
But it is uncommon for public high schools to have endowments – and that's something that can lead to massive