Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a package of bipartisan legislation focused on strengthening the state’s education system for students and teachers on Monday, May 18 at Highland Springs High School. (Photo by Markus Schmidt/Virginia Mercury)
Henrico Schools’ “phone-free” school year last year was, in practice, not exactly phone-free. But this coming school year, HCPS officials are promising a strict “bell-to-bell” phone ban.
On June 11, the Henrico School Board will vote on new regulations in the Code of Student Conduct that would require students to
Moody Middle School eighth-grader Taran Shivkumar finished 30th at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., correctly spelling three words and answering two questions, as well as passing a spelling and vocabulary knowledge threshold quiz, before being eliminated in the eighth round when he misspelled the word cryosel,
When Ellen Bohon was growing up in Hopewell in the 1960s and 1970s, “women didn’t get to do very much in sports,” she recalled.
Well, maybe most women. Bohon was different.
She played baseball, softball and basketball, snow skied, water skied and even played tackle football with the boys