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Governor McAuliffe received the Standards of Learning (SOL) Innovation Committee’s second round of recommendations, which are aimed at improving how the Commonwealth measures and fosters student growth and achievement, and how it evaluates schools.
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The University of Virginia announced Friday that Risa L. Goluboff has been selected as the 12th dean of the School of Law. The appointment is effective July 1.
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Staunton River High School in Bedford County and Drew Middle School in Stafford County are the statewide winners of the 2015 “Save Your TAIL-Gate, Buckle Up” campaign sponsored by Youth of Virginia Speak Out About Traffic Safety (YOVASO), the Virginia State Police and the Allstate Foundation.
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Charlottesville City Manager Maurice Jones announced the appointment of Charlene Green as the next manager of the Office of Human Rights.
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During a visit to Perrymont Elementary School in Lynchburg last week, First Lady of Virginia Dorothy McAuliffe announced a 139% increase in the number of schools participating in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), a new provision from the federal Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act that allows schools with high poverty rates to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students.
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St. Anne’s-Belfield School will host the inaugural Charlottesville Girls on the Run Celebration 5K on Sunday, Nov. 15. More than 150 area girls between the ages of eight and 13 will come together to complete the race and celebrate a successful fall season.
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A whole generation of future engineers, agricultural scientists, business majors, writers and teachers grew up thinking that heaven was a home football fall Saturday in Blacksburg, Va. That is because of one man who by rights should have been fired after going 2-8-1 in 1992, his sixth season at Virginia Tech, and only got to stay on because then-athletics director Dave Braine saw something that nobody else did at the time.
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Anisha Hegde spent her summer writing a pilot survey to improve prenatal care for women in Rwanda on behalf of that African nation’s Ministry of Health. How she got there is pretty surprising.
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Waynesboro YMCA Childcare is looking for 2 part time aides for our school age classrooms. Hours will be 3-5:30, Monday-Friday, with the occassional potential for more hours on days that school is out due to teacher workdays, inclement weather, or holidays.
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Against the backdrop of the official opening of its Center for Engaged Learning yesterday, Bridgewater College announced that the Center’s new Institute for Teaching and Learning will bear the name of its benefactors, Ben F. and Janice W. Wade, in recognition of their support and their service to higher education.
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