Senate Majority Leader Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax, virtually joins a discussion panel with criminal justice experts in Richmond on May 14, 2025 to discuss a forthcoming record-sealing law. (Charlotte Rene Woods/Virginia Mercury)
Kaila Brewer, a Chesapeake mother and special education teacher, had to leave her job during the COVID-19 pandemic to care for her five-year-old son, who is autistic. Child care services were scarce at the time, and the few available could not accommodate her child’s special needs.
“It was extremely
Virginia legislators discussed options Tuesday for funding of public school renovations and maintenance projects.
HB 334 would allow all counties and cities in Virginia to impose an additional local sales and use tax of up to 1%, with the revenue to be used exclusively for long-term investments in public school