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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More than 30 African-American alumni from Liberty University, a private evangelical school in Lynchburg, are calling on the school’s president to step down or apologize for past statements and “incendiary rhetoric” over the last several years. They sent a letter to Falwell Jr. on Monday asking that he apologize, or step down as president. -
Monday night, Richmond’s school board voted to approve new K-8 reading and math curricula. They took two separate votes to approve each individually, and added an amendment – when voting to adopt the reading curriculum – to clarify that teachers can delay implementation another year if necessary.
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Richmond Public Schools is preparing to adopt new K-8 math and reading curricula. Administrators say they want to establish consistency in how these topics are taught across grade levels throughout the district. They hope to adopt curricula from EL Education and Eureka Math, developed by Great Minds, for the upcoming school year.
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Senior volunteers are shifting to remote support during the coronavirus pandemic.
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The state is increasing COVID-19 testing in nursing homes, with the help of the Virginia National Guard, but there are still concerns over supply shortages.
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New initiatives planned for Richmond Public Schools see setbacks as the district struggles to close a budget shortfall caused by COVID-19.
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After criticism about mixing test data, Virginia’s Department of Health has released a new data breakdown separating out the number of nasal and throat swab tests being done to detect live virus, from blood tests – known as antibody tests – to detect the past presence of the virus. The breakdown shows the blood tests, or antibody tests, account for less than nine percent of all testing that’s been reported since February.
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More than half of today’s college students are the first in their families to go to college in the U.S. And as the spring semester wraps up, the coronavirus is adding a whole new layer of obstacles. Megan Pauly spoke to two first-generation college freshmen at James Madison University in Harrisonburg about how they’ve been coping.
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Virginia is in the process of finalizing contracts with private labs to expand COVID-19 testing in Virginia
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The Virginia National Guard is playing a key role in expanding testing capacity.
