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Letter from Emma Yackso, Charlottesville The Virginia Department of Education has recently proposed a new plan that ties high-school accreditation to graduation rates, not just test scores. This is a huge step forward, but there are some major issues with the plan. First, their current proposal endorses low expectations. Schools could encourage students into lower-achieving…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] So now the world knows how badly Waynesboro wants its Obama-Biden signs. I wasn’t aiming at getting coverage on the front page of the Washington Post’s Virginia section, but sometimes these little crusades that you start at 2 in the morning trying to post an item on what you assumed…
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A reader, and longtime critic, whose last email to me, before last week, was to criticize us for “political blather” that “charades as journalism,” took a different tone on our reporting on the situation facing Waynesboro Public Schools.
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A UVA Health emergency medicine doctor and a colleague at Clemson felt the need to spell out a framework for how hospitals integrate AI into their work.
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Virginia has one chance to critically assess NextEra Energy’s proposed acquisition of Dominion Energy.
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The Youngkin MAGAs sacked presidents at UVA, Virginia Tech and VMI – but they didn’t get Gregory Washington at George Mason University, who, it was announced on Tuesday, had his contract extended by the school’s Board of Visitors through June 30, 2031.
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Matt Haas has resigned from his post as the superintendent of Albemarle County Public Schools, the first domino to fall in the wake of the arrests of a fifth-grade teacher on child porn charges and an elementary school counselor on sexual battery charges.
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My mother, rest her soul, inserted a mental image of mountain mommas in West Virginia putting Mountain Dew in their babies’ bottles years ago.
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Scott Surovell said Virginia Democrats aren’t going to engage in the “drastic measures” to fight back at the four MAGA justices on the Supreme Court of Virginia who overturned the will of 1,604,276 voters last week.
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UVA Soccer coach George Gelnovatch has agreed to a contract extension that runs through 2031.
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