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Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today that preliminary figures indicate that the state concluded fiscal year 2015 with an approximately $553.3 million surplus from general fund revenue collections, excluding transfers. This represents the largest fiscal year-end surplus in the Commonwealth’s history, exceeding the $544.6 million surplus in fiscal year 2005.
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U.S. Senators Tim Kaine and Claire McCaskill welcomed the inclusion of key provisions of their Teach Safe Relationships Act in the compromise version of the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 (ECAA) introduced on the Senate floor today by U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray, Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP).
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Richard P. Bell, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Staunton, this morning addressed select high school students attending the 73rd session of American Legion Boys State of Virginia being held this week at Radford University.
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A group of students at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech recently completed an animal health challenge much closer to home than their usual classroom and clinical experiences: They put their overweight pets on a diet.
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The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Virginia filed a lawsuit against the Gloucester County School Board for adopting a discriminatory bathroom policy that segregates transgender students from their peers.
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The Virginia General Assembly has awarded $1 million to researchers at the Curry School of Education’s Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning to expand the assessment of entering kindergartners across the commonwealth.
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Governor Terry McAuliffe this week announced his appointments to the Boards of Visitors at Virginia’s colleges and universities, the State Council for Higher Education for Virginia and the State Board for Community Colleges.
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The Virginia Quilt Museum announces the appointment of a new executive director, Kimberly L. McCray.
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U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA-11) contacted U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Monday with questions on behalf of former students of Corinthian Colleges, Inc., a chain of for-profit schools that once operated more than 100 campuses in the U.S. and Canada, including four in Virginia under the Everest College banner – in Chesapeake, Newport News, Vienna, and Woodbridge – that were sold in February.
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Growing evidence suggests that agricultural practices, especially widespread antibiotic use, could be contributing to the increasing antibiotic resistance problem in humans.
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