As Richmond teachers from schools across the district report feeling unhappy with their job, parents at one elementary school are now organizing to rally around their children's teachers.
Learning is hands-on in Ms. Rhonda Hawley's class at Linwood Holton Elementary School. She teaches every grade, so all students in the building get to experience her room.
As Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney called out the school board for its response to low SOL scores across the district, the board's Vice Chair said his public response was an "unproductive" PR stunt.
Spotlight on board chair of Dancing Classrooms Greater Richmond 12/31/2020, 6 p.m.
Education always has been a focus for Victoria S.âVickieâ Oakley.
A retired chief academic officer with Richmond Public Schools who now serves as senior adviser for University Instructors consulting group, she has aided the academic experience for years.
Ms. Oakley also aids younger generations of students through a less conventional educational method â dance.
She is chair of the board of Dancing Classrooms Greater Richmond, which helps youngsters in fifth and eighth grades cultivate life skills through tango, waltz, polka, swing and other dances.
Started in Richmond in 2012 by Maria Vysotskay, Dancing Classrooms Greater Richmond is the local network of the national nonprofit created in 1994 by Pierre Dulaine and Yvonne Marceau for the American Ballroom Theater Company in New York City. The Greater Richmond program is one of 25 networks in the United States and around the worl
This was one of GGWash’s most popular articles in 2020. We’re sharing some of our hits again over the holiday season.
Public calls for Confederate statues to be removed from Richmond’s streetscape are not a new occurrence in Virginia’s capital; however, the focus of Northside residents’ most recent campaign to move one monument is not racism but safety.
After decades of crashes and the General Assembly’s recent decision to give localities control over Confederate memorials, 2020 could be the year General A. P. Hill stops causing car collisions.
Who put that there?
The Commonwealth, like most states in the US, has never reckoned with its long, dark history of slavery, segregation, and prejudice. The birthplace of Massive Resistance is only just beginning to come to terms with its traumatic treatment of Black Americans over the centuries, and Virginia’s 223 public spaces proudly displaying Confederate monuments have quickly become the frontline of this fight.