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FCPS students with disabilities were disproportionately suspended compared to their peers without disabilities.
Virginia schools will have to adopt the new transgender guidelines—or more comprehensive policies— after a 30-day comment period beginning on Sept. 26.
The executive directive aims to address the commonwealth's teacher shortages. The directive poses a nine-step method to remove obstacles that those seeking their own classroom might face.
The tardiness in approving the commonwealth’s funding framework created issues for schools, many of which across the commonwealth had already departed for summer break — and whose fiscal year loomed within single digits.
Students did experience academic gains compared to the year prior, but student achievement was below pre-pandemic levels.
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The state public schools superintendent also requested that the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right-wing education policy think tank, review the draft standards.
Senate Bill 656 held multiple objectives, including that the Virginia Department of Education develop model policies, that each local school board adopt those policies, and then that parents receive notification of any instructional material including sexually explicit content.