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 Public Schools is rolling out a new history elective class this coming fall – called REAL Richmond. It will highlight the often untold history of marginalized groups in the city. -
Research has found working at a nursing home is among the most dangerous jobs during the pandemic. Andrey Akkerman is a certified nursing assistant at the Virginia Home, a long-term care facility for adults with physical disabilities in Richmond.
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Two months after a COVID-19 diagnosis, Karen Chacón says she still hasn't heard from a contact tracer. As of July, Chesterfield had hired far fewer Spanish-speaking contact tracers than Richmond and Henrico.
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The Virginia Department of Health has been beta testing an app called COVIDWISE designed to help control the spread of the novel coronavirus, and plans to release it to the public this week.
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Public schools and private day schools for students with disabilities in Virginia have to submit reopening plans to the state before they begin fall instruction, but there isn’t an approval process for these plans.
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Almost every resident of a small nursing home in the Shenandoah Valley contracted the coronavirus. The facility’s administrator would get it, so many staff would quit it would become a struggle to keep the facility functioning, and 22 people -- about a fifth of the residents -- would die. But at a nursing home in Richmond, only 13 residents would become ill - and no one died. What happened?
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Newly-released documents reveal details about arrests of students in Richmond schools. Here are some of their stories.
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Some private schools, like the Faison Center in Richmond, have announced plans to resume at least partial in-person instruction in a few weeks.
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Richmond’s public-school board voted 8-1 in favor of a fully virtual fall reopening during a special meeting Tuesday night. The district plans to resume live, virtual instruction for at least the first semester of the next academic school year.
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A new report shows Richmond police assigned to schools arrest students on minor infractions: Marijuana possession, disorderly conduct, and simple assault, a misdemeanor charge applied for altercations that may not result in physical injuries.
