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Smart Beginnings Shenandoah Valley, a local school-readiness initiative that works to improve the quality of early childhood care and learning in the cities of Harrisonburg, Staunton and Waynesboro, as well as in Augusta, Page, Rockingham and Shenandoah counties, has received a grant of $75,000 from the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation (VECF), a public-private partnership headquartered in Richmond, Va.
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Comments from Sixth District Democratic Party congressional nominee Andy Schmookler, who failed in his bid to unseat Republican incumbent Bob Goodlatte.
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The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the Virginia Department of Education have a winning equation that results in better nutrition and an economic boost for communities.
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As every good businessman knows–including Governor Romney with whom I had been associated as a limited partner at Bain Capital Ventures–the soundness of a company and its ability to create jobs does not rest on lower taxes or tax avoidance–for the company or its senior management.
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Eighty-eight percent of the students who entered the ninth grade in the fall of 2008 earned a diploma within four years and of those, more than 55 percent earned an Advanced Studies Diploma, the Virginia Department of Education reported this week.
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Twelve area schools will join others from around the world Oct. 1-5 to celebrate International Walk to School Week. Students from Waterman, Keister, Spotswood, Stone Spring, Cub Run, Ottobine, South River, John C. Myers and Pleasant Valley Elementary Schools; Thomas Harrison and Skyline Middle Schools; and Turner Ashby High School will be walking and rolling to school during the first week of October
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College and university students majoring in science, engineering, technology and math (STEM) related fields have a free new resource for summer 2013 internships, as do companies who wish to hire them.
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Four stellar former Bridgewater College athletes have been selected for induction into the college’s Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday, Oct. 5, in the Kline Campus Center, as part of Homecoming activities. The inductees will also be recognized the following day at half-time of the Eagles’ Homecoming football game against Hampden-Sydney College.
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The new superintendent at Fishburne Military School is a familiar face in the FMS community. Gary R. Morrison, a 1981 graduate of Fishburne who also served on the faculty and later as the director of admissions, was named to the top administrative position at the school at a meeting of the Fishburne-Hudgins Educational Foundation Board of Trustees.
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For more than a quarter century the Virginia School Boards Association has been sponsoring a summer “Governor’s Conference on Education.”
