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Nonpartisan initiative targets 'legalized corruption' In Virginia politics Industries | Virginia Business

By Meghan Gaffney Capital News Service RICHMOND, Virginia - Last summer, Kate Noon, a mother of two in Richmond, read a news article about Virginia's dubious distinction as a state where women don't have the…

Two state songs have been approved in the Virginia General Assembly

Two state songs have been approved in the Virginia General Assembly

Virginia may create ombudsman to help with student debt - The Virginia Gazette

In Virginia, suicide is now three times as common as murder

RICHMOND — Both houses of the General Assembly unanimously passed legislation  that would protect the right of mothers to breast-feed in public.

Virginia a focus of calls for constitutional convention

With a new law mandating that school administrators be evaluated every year, a national organization has started training school leaders in Virginia to improve school climate, teacher effectiveness and student outcomes. The National Institute of School Leadership has begun its Executive Development Program in Virginia, with the goal of giving principals the knowledge and skills they need to be leaders and to improve student achievement in their schools.

By Haley Winn, Capital News Service RICHMOND - More than 30 students and faculty members from Virginia colleges and universities gathered in Richmond to urge legislators to protect funding for higher education. Virginia Higher Education Advocacy Day, an annual event sponsored by Virginia Commonwealth University's Faculty Senate, aimed to deliver a basic request to lawmakers: make fewer cuts and add more funding for state colleges and universities.

RICHMOND, Va. - More than 30 students and faculty members from Virginia colleges and universities gathered in Richmond to urge legislators to protect funding for higher education. Virginia Higher Education Advocacy Day, an annual event sponsored by Virginia Commonwealth University's Faculty Senate, aimed to deliver a basic request to lawmakers: make fewer cuts and add more funding for state colleges and universities.

Virginia Senate legislation designed to give in-state tuition to undocumented childhood arrivals was defeated last week by a Health and Education Committee vote of 6-7. Senate Bill 249, patroned by Sen. Donald McEachin (D-Richmond) and known as the Virginia DREAM Act, sparked heated rhetoric on whether state or federal legislators should be held responsible for immigration-related measures.

The Virginia House subcommittee tabled a measure that would have banned conversion or "ex-gay" therapy programs for minors, on a 4 to 1 party line vote early Thursday Morning. The American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Counseling Association and the American Psychological Association are among the organizations condemning gay conversion therapy.