Megan Pauly
Staff Reporter, VPM NewsMegan Pauly reports on early childhood and higher education news in Virginia. She was a 2020-21 reporting fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network and a 2019-20 reporting fellow with the Education Writers Association.
Megan previously worked for NPR affiliate WDDE in Wilmington, Delaware, and freelanced for NPR affiliate WAMU in Washington, D.C. She's also reported for NPR, Marketplace, The Atlantic, The Hechinger Report and more.
Email Megan: [email protected]
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Richmond author Kristen Green, who just published a new book called, “The Devil’s Half Acre: the untold story of how one woman liberated the South’s most notorious slave jail” in Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom, speaks with VPM's Megan Pauly. -
A public records request filed by VPM News revealed efforts by Richmond’s Chief Administrative Officer Lincoln Saunders to change the findings of a 2020 audit that found Richmond’s recent school construction costs higher than Chesterfield County's and the state average.
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Three national civil rights organizations have teamed up to launch a new campaign in response to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s tip line to report “inherently divisive concepts.” The groups are urging Virginians to tell Youngkin that it’s time to confront the nation’s history of racism in the classroom.
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Earlier this month, the Hanover County School Board voted to allow the Arizona-based group Alliance Defending Freedom – which the Southern Poverty Law Center has deemed an anti-LGBTQ hate group – to review a district policy pertaining to the rights of LGBTQ students in school.
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Richmond’s School Board and City Council met this week in yet another attempt to get on the same page and move forward with the design and construction of a new George Wythe High School on the city’s Southside. A compromise was floated but not agreed to.
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State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi (D-Chesterfield) and Del. Betsy Carr (D-Richmond) introduced legislation this year that would have banned that practice in the state. Both proposals were left in the House, though a study on the issue may be ordered.
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Legislation aimed at undoing recent admissions changes at governor’s schools in Virginia is being considered by the full state Senate this week – but with significant updates. A prior draft of the bill tried to ban geographic-based admissions practices; that language has since been taken out.
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Virginia’s Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow, appointed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, has rescinded several equity-focused programs and initiatives that the office claims promote “inherently divisive concepts.”
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Now that the deadline for lawmakers from each chamber to consider new bills has passed, we’re taking a look at how his promises have fared in the politically divided legislature. Several of these proposals will likely meet their final fate in a Senate education committee meeting next Thursday morning.
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A few days after the Democrat-controlled Senate blocked Gov. Youngkin’s pick for Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources, Andrew Wheeler, the House of Delegates voted not to confirm 11 Northam appointees to several state boards.
