Virginia Department of Education chooses nominees for national award from Galax, Harrisonburg
The Virginia Department of Education announced Virginia’s recipients for the 2025 Recognizing Inspiring School Employees (RISE) Award.
The Virginia Department of Education announced Virginia’s recipients for the 2025 Recognizing Inspiring School Employees (RISE) Award.
Twenty-one state AGs are suing to prevent the Trump administration from gutting the Department of Education. Jason Miyares, Virginia’s attorney general, and a loyal MAGA lieutenant, is not among them.

The Department of Basic Science Education at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine recently recruited five new faculty members with a variety of academic expertise.
Good news: the year-long drought that we seem to be coming out of, finally, isn’t diminishing our fall foliage season.
There are two large healthcare data breaches reported to federal regulators every day across the country.

Virginia Tech announced on Thursday that an anonymous family of Tech alums has made a $75 million gift to athletics and to one of the school’s academic programs.
Something is going on down at Virginia Tech, where the school’s president, Tim Sands, announced to Hokie Nation on Thursday, in a shock move, that he will be stepping down in the coming months.
Society has a love/hate relationship with gambling. On the one hand, it’s big business; on the other, there’s a fine line between the money that comes in and addiction.
More than $20 million has been awarded in federal funding for fire departments, localities and organizations throughout Virginia.
Virginia Tech students are filling a critical need for qualified mental health professionals in Southwest Virginia, thanks in part to a federal grant.
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