A team building game for a Black Virginia middle school student ended with him picking up cotton balls with his nose. The eighth grader and his mother are
From 2019 until 2022, there were no reported juvenile overdoses on Arlington Public Schools grounds. In the first six weeks of 2023, there have been three, including one that was fatal.
Over the last seven years, Arlington Public Schools has transitioned more than a dozen elementary schools to a different style of grading, with more on the way next year. The schools system says the goal is to get away from simplistic letter grades and to better describe student progress toward mastering standards without encouraging
(Updated at 4:25 p.m.) After lockdowns, a fatal, apparent drug overdose, a racist threat of gun violence, and additional threats and gun-related incidents all within the past few weeks parents and teachers say they want more information from Arlington Public Schools. But there's a document floating around outlining how School Board members
Police and medics have been dispatched to Wakefield High School at least twice for students experiencing suspected substance abuse-related issues since Tuesday's fatal overdose. The dispatches seem to point to administrators taking an extra-cautious approach to the medical treatment of students observed to be under the likely influence of drugs and alcohol in schools. Arlington