Lisa Rowan

A fund created in the 1990s to reward car theft tips now provides over $1 million a year for surveillance tech for police.

The small women’s college had been considered a safe, welcoming place for members of the LGBTQ+ community. Though current students are exempt from a new policy banning transgender and nonbinary app…

The scattered population in Smyth County added to the challenge of providing relief efforts in the week following the storm. The public schools served as an extension of local emergency services, c…

In a single school year, John I. Burton High School — one of just two schools in Norton — nearly eliminated chronic absenteeism.

Chances are you’ve been recorded on video thousands of times by dozens if not hundreds of law enforcement surveillance cameras.  What information do they capture? Who can see it? What can it be use…

It’s part of an effort to get kids excited to come to school each day as, across the state, schools try to re-engage families and increase attendance post-pandemic.

Atul Gupta and his company have contributed to multiple city council candidates, as well as to statewide campaigns. State code doesn’t restrict school board members from making political donations.…

The Bedford County School Board sued a parent for $600,000 in March, alleging that he’d used crude language and threatened legal action during repeated calls about his son. The parent had ear…

Public schools in Southwest Virginia are in the midst of a dramatic enrollment decline leading some divisions to close schools. In Franklin County, Wednesday marks the final day for two small, rura…

Virginia Tech requires students who have been arrested to report it to the Office of Student Conduct. Consequences of a conduct hearing can range from a formal warning to a probationary period to s…

All were charged with trespassing. They had refused to leave the site of the pro-Palestine encampment after they were told by university officials to disperse.

Among the solutions: A handful of colleges offer on-campus child care, and a statewide pilot program is providing child care stipends for single parents. But the need remains great.

State money would help school divisions comply with a menstrual product law at a time when many localities are looking for ways to trim expenses, but it didn’t make it into the budget this year.

The board rejected a $10,000 award that the Gender and Sexuality Alliance planned to use to create a quiet room at E.C. Glass High School, citing concerns about where the money came from: The It Ge…

Free tuition programs might entice students to enroll in community college, but they don’t cover gas or child care, or put food on the table. Here’s what two schools in rural Southwest Virgin…

Roanoke County’s school board retained its conservative majority in last week’s election. Fifteen-year-old Keely Meadows wants to keep LGBTQ+ rights in the spotlight.

After arrests at a July school board meeting, the U.S. Department of Justice offered to mediate discussions about new transgender student policies in Roanoke. The school system rejected the offer, …

In Virginia, the partisan schisms are having effects far beyond hourslong school board meetings. They’re dampening morale in classrooms, teachers say, and in some places, longtime board members who…

A weeklong program hosted at Virginia Western Community College’s culinary arts facility is a community collaboration with plans to expand.

Trained therapy dogs are much-loved community members at three schools in Southwestern Virginia. Radford’s “Tartan Tails” teams are the newest members of the pack.