PETERSBURG—Thadd Williams is an aspiring filmmaker living in Los Angeles. His road to the mecca of the movie industry began 10 years ago at a brand-new...

A free workshop on how to pay for college will be held Saturday at John Tyler Community College’s Chester campus. The workshop for students and parents...

Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, will speak at the second annual Great Expectations Education Forum next...

Deborah Eisenberg had a student conference in the morning and a writing class in the afternoon. It was just a normal day for the University of Virginia...

Student, teacher, custodian, cafeteria worker—whatever position you hold at Highland Springs High School this year, you have one thing in common:...

Constance Willoughby, a senior at Monacan High School, says her interests in fashion, cars and music from the 1920s,‘40s and’50s has kept her...

Petersburg School Superintendent James M. Victory once referred to the city’s schools as the poster child for school improvement. City school officials...

Virginia Board of Education members said yesterday that they back creating ratios for the number of state-funded school support staffers to instructional...

Virginia Board of Education members indicated today that they support implementing ratios for the number of state-funded school support staff to instructional...

A.P. Hill was the subject of an investigation after the Virginia Department of Education received a report that students were removed from class and did...

For the second consecutive year, a record number of Virginia’s public schools have reached full accreditation after passing state tests in math,...

ROTC units from James Madison University and Virginia Military Institute will begin a 61-mile march today with the game ball for Saturday’s football...

The state will seek a waiver from the federal government that would allow Virginia to move forward stimulus funding to help offset more than $196 million...

Although the debate about performance-based pay for teachers is a long way from being settled, many Richmond-area teachers already receive thousands of...

Nearly 50 percent of public school and private school cafeterias in the Richmond area came out of unannounced Virginia Department of Health inspections...

The Henrico County school system is poised to start a pilot program in which teacher pay would be tied to student performance. It is the only school system...

120 had no critical violations during inspections conducted during the 2008-09 school year; and 93 had two or fewer total critical violations for the...

Oct. 16-17: Douglas Southall Freeman Class of 1984, 25th reunion. Any class member who has not received an invitation should e-mail Lynn “Parrish”...

Lee-Davis High School junior Haley Herbert doesn’t have a job yet, but when she’s ready, she has one waiting for her. Herbert is a second-year...

Last school year, five Chesterfield County middle schools piloted an online essay-grading tool and saw as much as 21 percent gains on eighth-graders’...

Two Petersburg elementary schools will receive federal stimulus money for school renovation and expansion projects, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced yesterday....

A day after President Barack Obama’s televised remarks to students, area school officials yesterday were more supportive of his speech. That was...