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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VPM reached out to over a dozen lawmakers about our recent Dreams Deferred series to get their thoughts about what else needs to be done to address the direct-to-school debt crisis. -
Virginia Sen. Ghazala Hashmi (D-Chesterfield) is sponsoring legislation this year to ban transcript withholding as a form of debt collection for students who attend public colleges and universities in Virginia.
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Hundreds of people are still stranded in their cars on Interstate 95, after spending the night stuck in a 40-mile pile-up of traffic near Fredericksburg.
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The report found that over the past decade, Black youth in Virginia were about 2.5 times more likely than white youth to be referred to the juvenile justice system.
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The current debate around schools removing books from their libraries is nothing new. For years, books have been pulled off school shelves, according to a list maintained by the The American Library Association.
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A workgroup is meeting Monday night to discuss the legal implications of and concerns about a draft resolution that would allow Richmond Public Schools teachers to collectively bargain. In late September, three Richmond School Board members announced support for a collective bargaining resolution which was formally introduced in October.
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There’s been an uptick in infant deaths in Richmond so far this year. There’ve been a total of 12 child deaths so far compared to just five in 2020. According to the Richmond Police Department, cosleeping was a factor in four of the infant deaths, which experts say is unsafe.
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Direct-to-school debt affects thousands of Virginia college students. We've explored how policies and state laws create hardships on students, making it difficult for them to complete their degrees and advance their careers. In this installment, we unpack solutions that schools in other states have developed.
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Relatively small amounts of college debt can hold students back, especially those from lower-income households. And although Virginia colleges and other state agencies are mandated to aggressively collect such debt by state law, schools can be more flexible in their policies, and make different decisions about how to inform students of their debt.
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Tuesday night, the Hanover County School Board narrowly rejected a proposed policy change around bathroom access. The policy would have permitted transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity.
