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 launched a new online learning platform called RPS @ Home on Monday, with daily instructional videos, accompanying worksheets, and links to learning materials organized by weekday and grade level. -
With parents and children staying at home due to coronavirus, parents with homeschooling experience are providing valuable help.
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YMCA daycare programs across the city will offer reduced rates to essential workers.
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Richmond Public Schools can now move forward with plans to purchase an additional 2,030 chromebooks for students.
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Parents are spending a lot more time at home with their kids these days than they normally do. And they also may be wondering how best to talk about COVID-19 with them. Megan Pauly spoke with licensed mental health professional Bob Nickles from Richmond nonprofit Child Savers about that.
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Having missed a chance to say goodbye to their students, Southampton teachers drove through their neighborhoods to wave goodbye before the end of the school year.
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School districts in Central Virginia are scrambling to make sure kids have access to food, as well as tools they need to learn, including technology. Even though online learning may not officially count as “seat time,” school leaders want to make sure students don’t lose what they’ve learned so far this year, and have the opportunity to advance academically even though school is out for the rest of the academic year.
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Although school districts can waive some graduation requirements, students say they are confused and not sure what they need to be doing to graduate on time.
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Teachers, school divisions - and parents and students - are struggling with education during the coronavirus shutdown.
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As schools remain closed across Virginia due to coronavirus concerns, officials are trying to mitigate the impact on students and districts.
