<a href="https://www.vsba.org/meetings-conferences/superintendent-evaluation-workshop/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">October 6, 2021, Superintendent Evaluation Workshop</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are you prepared to evaluate your Superintendent? Register now for the Superintendent Evaluation Workshop! The Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Superintendents developed by the Virginia Department of Education provide a…</span>

<a href="https://www.wtvr.com/news/coronavirus/richmond-public-schools-summer-fest-in-person-school-year-prep"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Richmond principal: 'We're going to make sure that we address the learning loss'</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">Richmond Public Schools held its first of a series event Saturday to help its families and students return to in-person learning for the upcoming school year.“This is the goal to get families engaged early to get them thinking about what reopening is going to look like. To be…</span>

<a href="https://www.smithfieldtimes.com/2021/07/21/meme-targets-school-equity-coordinator/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meme targets school equity coordinator</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">A meme showing Isle of Wight County Schools’ coordinator of equity and inclusion, Kiyaana Cox-Jones, in a pose some commenters are calling a Nazi salute has begun circulating on social media. The photo, which shows Jones in a gray and khaki outfit with her right hand and...</span>

<a href="https://www.pilotonline.com/news/education/vp-nw-norfolk-school-facility-plan-20210723-g4a5a53ijffbxgmny5yy4iessa-story.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Norfolk’s aging schools badly need repairs. Officials want to use pandemic money.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">Norfolk’s school board has decided to spend much of the division’s pandemic relief money to fix heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems across its schools. District officials had started surveying the public Monday to ask how it wants to use federal stimulus payments meant to…</span>

<a href="https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/back-to-school-news/bristol-virginia-public-schools-release-3-tiered-back-to-school-plan-based-on-virus-severity/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bristol Virginia Public Schools release 3-tiered back to school plan based on virus severity</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bristol Virginia Public Schools has released a back-to-school plan for the 2021-2022 school year, complete with three tiers. According to the school district’s plan, BVPS will start classes again in August “under as normal circumstances as possible.”The three tiers of operation laid...</span>

<a href="https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2021/07/22/virginia-school-districts-react-to-new-recommendations-on-masks-in-classrooms/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Virginia school districts react to new recommendations on masks in classrooms</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">Local school districts now have the final say on COVID-19 guidelines for returning to the classroom, and leaders are responding to new recommendations from Virginia’s Department of Education and Department of Health. “The intent here is to empower those local…</span>

<a href="https://dailyprogress.com/news/state-and-regional/summer-school-programs-have-more-of-a-camp-feel-this-year/article_513a9b8a-5b8e-5a0c-a4a7-ea47ad226108.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Summer school programs have more of a camp feel this year</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">Albemarle County students are learning how to be inventors during summer school this year — a four-week program that is closer to a camp than school and aimed at helping students bounce back from the last year. “I think it’s pretty cool to come up with new things,” said Maggie...</span>

<a href="https://www.insidenova.com/news/state/effort-to-remove-virginia-school-board-member-will-be-decided-in-court/article_7b9c7806-663a-5d5a-b588-1aa35ad98d6a.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Effort to remove Virginia school board member will be decided in court</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Fairfax County school board member will need to plead her case in court for why she should not be removed from office after petitioners gathered the necessary number of signatures, a judge decided Friday. Board member Elaine Tholen faces a recall effort over her votes to...</span>

<a href="https://richmond.com/news/local/education/henricos-amy-cashwell-receives-38-000-pay-bump-heres-how-she-stacks-up-against-other/article_c3a80986-26fb-5e36-88ac-40e7480d3fd6.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Henrico's Amy Cashwell receives $38,000 pay bump; here's how she stacks up against other superintendents in the Richmond area</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">Henrico County schools’ Amy Cashwell is now the highest-paid public school superintendent in the Richmond area after receiving a nearly $38,000 raise last month. The increase bumped her pay from $217,726 to $255,622.18 on July 1. Her approximately 17% salary increase comes…</span>

<a href="https://heraldcourier.com/news/washington-county-schools-take-no-action-on-transgender-policies/article_e62706ad-2a87-531f-bfe1-a1024f3c64f4.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Washington County schools take no action on transgender policies</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">Washington County Public School Board officials have opted to take no action on any policy changes that could affect the rights of transgender students. On Monday in Abingdon, dozens of people addressed the Washington County School Board at its regular meeting, with many…</span>

<a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/virginia-judge-questions-faith-groups-in-fight-over-transgender-inclusive-student-policies/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Virginia Judge Questions Faith Groups in Fight Over Transgender-Inclusive Student Policies</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Virginia judge had tough questions for conservative groups Wednesday afternoon in a dispute hoping to block the state from implementing transgender-inclusive policies in the upcoming school year.  The Virginia Department of Education claimed the policies “address common...</span>

<a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6152246259414651918"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Webinar, August 4, 2021: What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">
</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">Often, communication issues within the board or between the board and superintendent are not problems, but rather are indications there are governance issues that need to be examined and strengthened. Learn how to analyze common “Communication issues” in order to identify.…</span>