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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Last year, Virginia’s state department of higher education approved a new funding formula that determined how financial aid dollars are allocated to colleges. Lawmakers also approved $300,000 for an additional study of other higher education funding allocations. But due to the pandemic, that funding was pulled. -
Experts predict the national eviction moratorium has kept millions in their homes through the COVID-19 pandemic. Not every type of eviction is covered, but even with judges able to give tenants resources to help them stay, displacement - through eviction or rising housing costs - has continued.
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The bill, which came from politically active Democratic and Republican students, will mandate schools give middle and high schoolers a day off for civic engagement.
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Richmond Public Schools instituted a new math curriculum in efforts to improve the district's lagging standardized test scores. The rollout of the new curriculum was not seamless and it met some resistance from teachers, but many of them are starting to feel comfortable with 'new math'.
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VPM and ProPublica are investigating collection practices at Virginia colleges and universities. Do you have a story to share?
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School districts across the country, including in Richmond, are considering severing ties with local police departments amid nationwide protests over police conduct.
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Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney has asked Richmond Public Schools to consider using school buildings to provide childcare for students this fall during the all-virtual reopening. The school board is expected to discuss Stoney’s request in a special meeting Monday night.
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Several community college systems in Virginia are launching pilot programs that aim to re-envision math instruction.
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Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras wants to remove police from schools. But it’s unclear if the school board will follow through on that request.
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All private schools are required to submit plans to the Virginia Council for Private Education, not the state. But some are worried about state officials intervening in their plans to fully resume in-person instruction.
