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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine joined the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) Tuesday afternoon to announce the winners of the Governor’s CTE Exemplary Standards Awards. The awards recognize business and industry representatives for their work promoting career and technical education (CTE) and highlight the efforts of educators in providing exceptional instruction and positive outcomes for students.
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Friday, Aug. 7 – State News: New online resources for teachers Thursday, Aug. 6 – Local News: 40th anniversary of Camille disaster this month – Elections ’09: Wagner releases statement on Bolling’s absence from revenue meeting Wednesday, Aug. 5 – Local News: Harrisonburg traffic alert – State News: ACLU of Virginia weighs in on sectarian…
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– Local News: Ramp at 247 on I-81 to close two nights next week, posted Tuesday, 2 p.m. – State News: Virginia on iTunes U, posted Tuesday, 2 p.m. – State News: ACLU critical of threat assessment for colleges, universities in fusion center report, posted Tuesday, 2 p.m. – State News: More than 2 million…
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– News: Pew Center commends Virginia for budgeting, management, Tuesday, 5:40 p.m. – News: House GOP kills bipartisan redistricting, Tuesday, 5:40 p.m. – News: Statement of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on stimulus, Tuesday, 5:40 p.m. – News: Gov. Kaine announces initiative to prepare dropouts for entry-level tech jobs, Tuesday, 12:20 p.m. – News: Shannon announces…
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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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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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