In a news release, the agency said it has initiated enforcement action against Fairfax County Public Schools and is seeking additional information by mid-October. If the school system doesn���t provide it, they could risk losing federal funding, the agency said.

The step comes weeks after reports that a Centreville High School social worker allegedly scheduled an abortion for a student during the 2021-22 school year, paid the clinic fee and didn���t tell the student���s parents. The release said the social worker reportedly pressured a second student into having an abortion.

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Virginia���s largest school division is the first in the state to start using the program, which has been implemented through a collaboration with Virginia State Police. The school system has been working with the agency for more than a year to launch the program.

The implementation comes three years after an incident involving a Glasgow Middle School counselor resulted in calls for stronger safety measures, including the use of the Rap Back program. The school system learned Darren Thornton was able to remain on the job for over a year, despite an arrest and conviction for a sex offense.

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The June ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that Montgomery County, Maryland, public school parents who have religious objections should have been able to pull their children out of the classroom when school lessons used five LGBTQ+ storybooks raises the question: How will the decision affect local school systems in the coming year?

The Supreme Court ruling will only affect books required for classroom lessons, although local school systems say they will ensure that school libraries will contain age-appropriate offerings.

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The job posting, for a role called ���executive protection agent,��� closed this week. The role falls under the Office of the Chief Safety and Security Officer. The job includes a 260-day work schedule, and stated responsibilities include ensuring ���the personal safety, security and operational continuity of the division superintendent across school campuses, public events, official travel, and private residences.���

It could pay over $140,000, depending on experience. The role requires five years of related experience.

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School resource officers, or SROs, were once common throughout the country. But many areas, primarily liberal leaning ones, began to question whether they were necessary.

After lots of discussion around the region, some schools decided to move ahead and try something different.

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Fairfax County, Loudoun County, Arlington County, Prince William County and the city of Alexandria were all determined to not be abiding by Title IX provisions, the governor���s office said.

���The school division policies allow students of the opposite sex access to intimate sex-separated facilities and allow students of the opposite sex to participate in sex-separated sports,��� said a release from Youngkin���s office.

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���Reading is first and foremost a gateway to all of the learning and all other subjects,��� said Trish Brennan-Gac, executive director of Maryland Reads. ���The more we can make them confident and thriving readers, there���s also going to be other effects of that in a child���s well-being.���

She said the organization���s new report, titled ���The State of Reading in Maryland 2025: It���s Time for a Comeback After a Decade of Decline,��� shows that education spending has grown 37%, but that���s not paying off when it comes to students being able to read.

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The program is being carried out at the Social Justice School, a charter school in Northeast, where 15 families will each get $2,400 over the course of three months, with money distributed weekly onto debit cards.

The first payments are due to start later this month.

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He also said they would talk about the types of goods that emerged in ancient East and West Africa. Part of that would involve how the influence of gold shaped the development of certain African empires.

But first, Miller advised the class to pay attention to the video he was about to play. As part of a conversation about the cultural implications of food, he asked the class the types of food they���d expect to see at a Black family reunion.

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Wright said members of this group will include local superintendents, principals and higher education representatives to provide recommendations on how to better assess how students are doing in the classroom. The group will be led by the Center for Assessment, a national education nonprofit that designs, implements and evaluates accountability systems to see how students are learning.

Part of this initiative stems from the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program (MCAP), which measures a student���s proficiency in math, English and science.

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