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.
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin is pressing the General Assembly to approve $150 million to help colleges and universities set up lab schools. -
Classes for Fox Elementary School students will be canceled on Monday and Tuesday, as teachers and staff prepare to start virtual learning on Wednesday. District leaders still have to figure out where students will finish the school year.
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive orders allowing parents to opt their kids out of mask-wearing in schools and seeking to prohibit Virginia teachers from discussing “inherently divisive concepts” in public school classrooms are raising constitutional questions. Some legal scholars are suggesting they could even be unconstitutional, though courts are just starting to weigh in on these questions.
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Nearly two decades after leaving the school, Maurice Donikin El found out that VCU was attempting to garnish his wages over a $1,569.50 financial aid check they say they sent him in August 1999 to help pay for his living expenses.
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin recently launched a tip line to report teachers and schools for “inherently divisive teaching practices.”
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Sen. Ghazala Hashmi's (D-Chesterfield) legislation to ban the practice of transcript withholding at Virginia’s public colleges and universities cleared the Senate, passing 25 to 15.
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The bill seeks to prohibit a wide array of admissions practices currently being utilized by at least two governor’s schools in Virginia: Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Northern Virginia and the Maggie Walker Governor’s School in Richmond.
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Burke had only attended classes for one week in fall 2017 when she decided it wasn’t the right time. When she left VCU, she says she was told she didn’t owe any money for tuition. But even though Burke occupied her VCU dorm for less than two weeks, she was still charged for the entire semester’s dorm rent.
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin and some Virginia lawmakers want to require police in every public school across the state: at the elementary, middle and high school level.
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Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin has repeatedly stated that he wants to open 20 charter schools in Virginia. But the nitty-gritty details of how he plans to achieve that are uncertain.
