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CORRECTION: This article has been updated to reflect that Lois Harrison-Jones was the first Black woman to serve as a ...
RICHMOND, Va. — Dr. Lucille M. Brown, a longtime educator who served Richmond Public Schools for 38 years, has died. Her alma ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The board of Richmond Public Schools has formally voted to shift the 2022-2023 academic calendar. The school year will now end June 9 in 2023 instead of June 23.
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Richmond Public School teachers were the first in Virginia to gain collective bargaining rights to negotiate for pay, benefits and working conditions. More than a year ...
Four of Richmond’s public schools need “significant” school safety updates and 26 others need “moderate” updates, according to information Richmond Public Schools prepared for the School ...
If ever an individual didn’t deserve to have his name stripped from a school, it was Onslow Minnis. Minnis, a Richmond native, was a school dropout, pulled by his mother out of ninth grade so he ...
High school students take AP® exams and IB exams to earn college credit and demonstrate success at college-level coursework. U.S. News calculated a College Readiness Index based on AP/IB exam ...
RICHMOND, Va. -- The Virginia Department of Education has announced $12 million in state grants to improve security at schools in the commonwealth. The funding comes from School Security Equipment ...
School districts across the country are looking for ways to fill the gaps from distance learning. The superintendent of Virginia's Richmond Public Schools has a plan that could be approved this month.
Analysis by Valerie Strauss Before Jason Kamras was named superintendent of the Richmond public school district in late 2017, he was a big deal in D.C. Public Schools. He was National Teacher of ...
To battle a learning gap, four Richmond public schools will start the school year in July. As part of an ongoing pilot project, four Richmond public schools have chosen to start the school year early.