Seventy years after students at Robert Russa Moton High School went on strike to protest substandard conditions at the school, the museum that occupies the Farmville schoolhouse will hold a special celebration marking the event and raising awareness and funds for its current mission.
âMoton Live 2021,â a 10-hour virtual celebration that will be streamed via Facebook and YouTube, will be held on Friday, April 23, and will feature panel discussions, keynote speakers and musical entertainment. Gov. Ralph Northam and state Secretary of Education Atif Qarni will appear. Keynote speakers will be Virgil Wood, church leader and civil rights activist, and Margo Lee Shetterly, author of âHidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.â
Cox Business Brings High Speed Fiber Connectivity to Historical Jamestowne Island
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ATLANTA and JAMESTOWN, Va. England s first permanent colony in North America, Historical Jamestowne Island, is modernizing with the help of Cox Business. The 411-year-old staple in American history now has high-speed, optical fiber internet, enhancing the visitor experience – both on-site and virtually.
Today, Historical Jamestowne Island and Cox Business will present a virtual trip for King s Grant Elementary School from Virginia Beach, VA. In attendance and making remarks will be Congresswoman Elaine Luria, who represents Virginia s second district, Virginia Secretary of Education Atif Qarni and Virginia Chief Broadband Advisor Evan Feinman.
Governor Northam Announces $46.6 Million in Federal Funding for Virginia Private Schools
RICHMOND Governor Ralph Northam today invited eligible Virginia private schools to apply for funding from the federal Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations (CRRSA) Act approved by Congress in December 2020.
The CRRSA Act includes $2.75 billion in Governor’s Emergency Education Relief funding for the Emergency Assistance for Non-Public Schools (EANS) program and Virginia received an allocation of $46.6 million. Non-public schools do not receive direct awards or allocations under the EANS program. Rather, state education departments use EANS funds to procure services and assistance requested by eligible schools in their applications.
Transgender and nonbinary students in Virginia will soon be able to use their pronouns and name of choice at school, according to new guidelines from the Virginia Department of Education that school districts must adopt come September.
VDOEâs model guidelines were issued in March, a month bookended annually by International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, a day to celebrate the transgender community and raise awareness about the discrimination the community faces.
The commemoration was founded in 2009 by Rachel Crandall-Crocker, a psychotherapist and executive director of Transgender Michigan, who said in a Wednesday column for the online LGBTQ magazine âThemâ that she wanted the community to have more than the Transgender Day of Remembrance, observed annually on Nov. 20.