“The instability is what’s really so difficult to navigate,” said a Charlottesville mother of a non-binary child. “How much danger are we going to be in? How much are our lives about to change?”
Category: How we learn
We report on how we learn and grow, with a special focus on children, their parents and caretakers, and the equity of our education system.
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Race is at the center of Louisa County School Board special election
About 30% of the county’s students aren’t white, but the school board has been all white since 2014.
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After learning that Albemarle was struggling to stock period products, a local mom took matters into her own hands
Sarah Harris is raising money to donate period products to Albemarle County Public Schools.
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With just six bus drivers, more than 3,000 Charlottesville City Schools children are making their own ways to school this year
“A lot of parents are freaking out right now,” said Noelle Dwyer.
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For the first time in years, Albemarle County Public Schools can’t fill its no-cost preschool program
Albemarle went all online with applications for no-cost preschool — and not enough people applied.
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Virginia just made its biggest investment in school buildings in over a decade. Now, it has to decide how to dole out the money.
Charlottesville City Council will apply for funding. It has budgeted to rebuild Buford Middle School but hasn’t yet budgeted for the overhaul of Walker Elementary.
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City Schools will suspend once crucial virtual learning after only 15 students said they want to stay online
As of May, only 67 students were enrolled in CCS Virtual, Katina Otey, the district’s chief academic officer, said. The number of students interested in continuing online next year is lower still — only 15.
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Hundreds of Buford Middle School students lead the call for an end to violent white supremacy after Buffalo shooting
Seventh-grader Christopher Early, who marched with classmates Friday, said he is afraid. As a Black kid, the shootings left him worried about the chances of a similar tragedy happening again, possibly to him.
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Charlottesville education union petitions School Board for the right to engage in collective bargaining
The School Board now has until August to decide if it will allow the new union to operate.
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City Council supports the much-needed Buford Middle School rebuild, but must raise taxes or delay other projects to do it
It’s possible to fund the school renovations without raising taxes — but that could mean postponing things like sidewalk repairs, road paving, and new affordable housing projects.
