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• Va. to keep third-grade history SOL

  Local News from Richmond-Times Dispatch | 06/20/2009 05:01 am

  Bowing to pressure, the state superintendent of public instruction has abandoned her proposal to end the third-grade history and social studies Standards of Learning test. The proposal drew a bipartisan ...

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• Va. DOE chief withdraws proposal to drop 3rd grade history SOL test

  Local News from Richmond-Times Dispatch | 06/19/2009 04:40 pm

  Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction Patricia I. Wright today withdrew her proposal to drop the 3rd grade history Standards of Learning test. Her proposal had drawn an outcry from legislators, ...

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• Va. gains access to $800 million in education stimulus funds

  Local News from Richmond-Times Dispatch | 05/26/2009 11:52 pm

  Virginia now has access to $806 million in education stimulus funding to help local school districts back fill budget cuts and save teaching jobs. Yesterday’s release of the first portion ...

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• Henrico' Morton named Virginia Superintendent of the Year

  Local News from Richmond-Times Dispatch | 05/07/2009 05:01 am

  Henrico schools’ outgoing superintendent Fred Morton IV has been named Virginia’s Superintendent of the Year by the Virginia Association of School Superintendents. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Patricia I. Wright ...

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• Henrico' Morton named Va. superintendent of year

  Local News from Richmond-Times Dispatch | 05/06/2009 10:38 am

  ROANOKE—Henrico County Superintendent Frederick Morton IV has been named Virginia’s school superintendent of the year. Morton won the award yesterday at the Virginia Association of School Superintendents’ annual conference. He ...

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• Deadline set for Petersburg school initiative

  Local News from Richmond-Times Dispatch | 05/01/2009 05:01 am

  The full implementation of an independently managed middle school program to raise student achievement in Petersburg will occur by Feb. 2, 2010, state officials said yesterday. “It is our expectation ...

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• Virginia seeks education funding

  Local News from Richmond-Times Dispatch | 04/30/2009 05:01 am

  Virginia is in talks with Maryland and Washington about seeking part of an additional $5 billion in stimulus money that will be awarded to states most aggressively trying to improve ...

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• Va. Opens Childhood Development Office

  richmond.com | 07/01/2008 12:31 pm

  The newly created Office of Early Childhood Development is now coordinating state programs aimed at improving the lives and education of the commonwealth's youngest citizens and residents.   The office, ...

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