Education

The board of visitors voted in late February to allow retired Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins’ contract to expire this summer. Wins is the state-run military school’s first Black superintendent.

The school division also looked at options for building onto the existing high schools and at the idea of turning the Jefferson Center into a magnet school.

The 10 board members who voted against a contract extension for retired Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins were appointed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

At Virginia Tech, about 30 positions have been fully or partially funded by USAID projects since July 2023. Most of those people are teaching and research faculty, while a few are students.

Education Secretary Aimee Guidera told the board of the New College Institute that the center needs to prove there’s a return on investment for the taxpayer money that funds it.

Booker Steffey, who won the Spec Mix Junior Bricklayer 500 Competition in Las Vegas last month, got interested in brick laying as a high school freshman.

The small women’s college had been considered a safe, welcoming place for members of the LGBTQ+ community. Though current students are exempt from a new policy banning transgender and nonbinary applicants, some are reconsidering their relationship with their school.

Roanoke City Public Schools has a diverse student body and serves a city that has long been welcoming to immigrants. It’s one of the first school divisions in the region to publicly address the Trump administration’s new policies.

Cash flow woes have placed the private Danville university in default on more than $14.6 million construction bonds despite being on time with its payments, according to a notice from U.S. Bank dated Jan. 3.

The Jefferson Center had been named as a possible site for a new magnet school as part of a plan to alleviate overcrowding at the city’s two high schools.