Commonwealth schools receive $2.4B, collectively, from the feds each year.

The school's principal is recovering from life-threatening injuries.

Much of the talk surrounded federal funding uncertainties.

The local nonprofit provides various social services to residents.

Public meeting highlights in Central Virginia for the week beginning March 17.

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Adolphus Hailstork's 2022 requiem cantata "A Knee on the Neck" pays tribute to George Floyd. NPR speaks with librettist Herbert Martin, who initiated the work, five years after police killed Floyd in Minneapolis.

Today's StoryCorps is about a love that lasted through the seasons. Patrice Hudson was apprehensive about online dating until she met Byron Ball, a high school science teacher who, like her, was a single parent and had been married before.

"Rather than jumping over someone to get what you want, consider reaching out your hand and taking the leap side by side," the beloved Muppet told graduates Thursday evening.

Some 50,000 people have been isolated by the flooding in New South Wales, after days of heavy rain. Four bodies have been retrieved from floodwaters since Wednesday.

Six people, including music talent agent Dave Shapiro, were on board a private jet that crashed into a San Diego neighborhood on Thursday.