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In a Senegalese village, children grow vegetable seedlings and organize money-raising traditional Senegalese wrestling events in a Positive Youth Development program modeled after Virginia Cooperative Extension’s 4-H program.
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Charter schools, for the libertarian establishment, are what passes for “free market reform” in public education. They’re regularly pushed by mainstream libertarian think tanks, and at Reason they’re topped only by Uber, right-to-work laws and defined-contribution pensions on the list of libertarian shibboleths.
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On Thursday at noon Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA), Ranking Member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce in the House of Representatives, will speak at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia.
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As a sophomore, Anastasia Matusiewicz of Woodbridge, Virginia, tagged along with some friends to check out a Students Helping Honduras meeting — though she admits that it was solely to avoid doing homework.
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Kimberly P. Harper of Harrisonburg has been named director of human resources at Bridgewater College.
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The Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired will be hosting an Open House event in Staunton for community members to learn more about the department and available services for blind or visually impaired individuals.
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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has inducted University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan as a member of its 2015 class. The ceremony was held Saturday in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Henry County has been designated as Virginia’s first Certified Work Ready Community. The nationally recognized designation by the Commonwealth and American College Testing (ACT) will help Henry County attract new businesses and jobs in addition to strengthening the skill sets of the region’s high school students, job seekers, and incumbent workforce.
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Amy Argenbright lost a cousin to suicide in May. Seeing others close to her impacted by what had happened “made everybody realize the need to talk about it and bring it to light,” said Argenbright.
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) announced Friday that he has signed onto bipartisan legislation to reform Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare to provide safer and more effective pain management services to our nation’s veterans.
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