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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A VPM News analysis of court records found that between April 2020 and April 2021 — during a global pandemic — the attorney general’s office sued to collect years-old tuition and fees from over 150 Virginia State University students. They also attempted to garnish several students’ wages. The balance due in most cases was between $3,000 and $5,000 before fees. -
Over the past year, VPM News has been looking into a hidden type of debt affecting thousands of Virginia college students. It’s not federal student loans — which dominates most of the headlines. It’s money owed directly to institutions, called direct-to-school debt.
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In April 2020, VPM News got a tip from a Virginia university staff member suggesting that the school was unfairly pursuing students for past-due tuition and fees. The staff member was concerned about students being pursued for balances as low as $20. We investigated, and found a problem that affected thousands of students.
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Absentee ballots can be returned to a drop-off location listed on the ballot, the registrar’s office or at any polling location in the voter’s locality by 7 p.m. on Election Day. Or a voter can return the ballot to their local polling place and instead vote in person.
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The country’s political divide has been on clear display at school board meetings across the country all summer and this fall. That’s true too in Virginia, where education has taken central stage in the gubernatorial race. But much of the focus has been on Critical Race Theory, an academic framework for understanding racism, which critics distort and mischaracterize.
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It’s been well over a month since the start of the K-12 school year. But most school districts in central Virginia have not adopted state-mandated model policies to protect transgender students.
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Maggie Walker has accepted white students at a much higher rate than Black students for the past 20 years. Kenya Hunter of the Richmond Times-Dispatch walks through her recent reporting with VPM's Megan Pauly.
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Last night, Richmond’s school board voted 5 to 4 to keep police in schools for the foreseeable future but with some changes.
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Nurses across the country – and in Virginia – are facing an influx of unvaccinated COVID-19 positive patients. They’re burned out, and are pleading with community members not yet vaccinated to get vaccinated.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated staffing shortages at childcare centers across the country, including in Virginia.
