The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is awarding grants totaling more than $2.5 million to 11 partnerships between school divisions, colleges and universities to increase content knowledge and sharpen classroom skills of teachers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics – subject areas known collectively as “STEM.”
The awards were made through VDOE’s Mathematics and Science Partnership [...]
By Brad Fulton – Capital News Service
Gov. Bob McDonnell signed two bills Thursday requiring schools to stock and administer epinephrine, a drug that could save students having a severe allergic reaction.
McDonnell signed House Bill 1107, sponsored by Delegate Thomas “Tag” Greason, a Republican from Potomac Falls, and Senate Bill 656, introduced by Sen. Donald McEachin, [...]
By Charles Couch – Capital News Service
RICHMOND – The General Assembly last week upheld all six of Gov. Bob McDonnell’s vetoed bills, including one that would have increased fines on Virginia residents with out-of-state license plates.
The assembly reconvened for a one-day session to consider the governor’s vetoes and recommendations regarding legislation passed during the 2012 [...]
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell announced today the Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population is booming, fueled by an extraordinary explosion in juvenile crab abundance.
The results of the 2012 Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey determined the total population of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay has reached 764 million, due to four years of a bay-wide stock [...]
By Alex Morton – Capital News Service
RICHMOND – On the fourth try, the Senate joined the House on Wednesday in approving an $85 billion state budget for the next two years.
One Democrat, Sen. Charles Colgan of Manassas, joined all 20 Senate Republicans in voting for the budget bill, HB 1301. The House had approved the [...]
By Alex Morton – Capital News Service
RICHMOND – For the third time, the Virginia Senate has refused to compromise on a new state budget, preventing the General Assembly from approving a spending plan for the next two years.
The House voted 77-19 on Tuesday in favor of an amended budget bill, HB 1301. But Senate Democrats [...]
RICHMOND – Governor Bob McDonnell has signed SB41 which provides $1 Million in relief to Thomas Haynesworth who served 27 years for crimes he did not commit. Mr. Haynesworth was incarcerated from 1984 until 2011 after being wrongfully convicted of a number of crimes. The convictions were the result of three different cases. Mr. Haynesworth [...]
RICHMOND — Virginians are encouraged to explore the world beneath their feet during Virginia Cave Week, April 22-28.
Virginia Cave Week is intended to raise awareness of Virginia’s caves and surrounding limestone habitats known as karst. The week features discounted admission to some commercial caves as well as opportunities for educators to engage their students with [...]
(Doswell, VA) – On Wenesday March 7, 2012, SFVA Inc., the not-for-profit organization that produces the State Fair of Virginia, was forced to convert its Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation in Richmond District Court. As a proposed resolution to emerge from the Chapter 11 process, SFVA had offered to buy [...]
Today Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell signed HB462 into law after a long contentious path through the legislature. On February 22, 2012, the governor requested that the General Assembly amend the bill to explicitly state that no woman in Virginia would have to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound involuntarily and that only a transabdominal, or external, ultrasound [...]
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