RICHMOND, Virginia — Attorney General Jason Miyares stopped at the Calhoun Community Center in Gilpin Court, …

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RICHMOND, Virginia — Attorney General Jason Miyares stopped at the Calhoun Community Center in Gilpin Court, …
A public school in Richmond Virginia says it may have more than 4,000 lesson plans, …
Referencing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the 63-year-old landmark Brown II case, State Senator Bill Stanley (R-Franklin) is looking to form legislation next session to direct Virginia to provide schools that are “fully modernized or maintained as seemingly required,” by the U.S. Constitution.
“63 years later, does the U.S. Constitution or federal law provide a legal remedy for the failure to satisfy the Brown II mandate on school infrastructure?” State Senator Bill Stanley asks Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring as the consensus to fix crumbling schools throughout the Commonwealth gains widespread, bipartisan acclaim.
Richmond School Board members and the public at-large were shocked to find that the lack of money allocated for this year’s infrastructure improvements within the school division was bolstered by money taken out of the budget to fix schools in the past and re-branded as “new” money.
Richmond Public Schools is facing yet another teacher shortage, may have to “beg” to fill vacancies.
As Mayor Levar Stoney continues his tax rampage on Richmond, Governor Northam signs the Republican-sponsored legislation for tax-free RPS modernization.
After an “administrative error” by the Richmond School Board, overcrowding at Fox Elementary School leads to trailers in the street in the Fan District.
After Mayor Levar Stoney levied his meals tax on Richmonders, Councilman Parker Agelasto also wants a cigarette tax to fund the RPS rebuild.
85 percent of Richmonders voted for a referendum that will modernize RPS, but Mayor Stoney may be able to raise taxes for funding with new House bill.