Education

Bob and Linda Weir are happy in Danville and don’t want to move to a retirement community in another city. But they’ll probably have to.

Averett University and Danville Community College will use the facility for flight instruction and aviation maintenance training.

Five colleges’ lab schools — which were approved earlier and then deemed ineligible for funding — had just six weeks to find a public partner.

If the plan is approved Friday by the Virginia Board of Education, ODU would oversee a network of nine lab schools.

For now, the detectors will be placed at middle and high schools, and will be used only for after-school activities and sporting events.

An increase in state funding means the county must come up with a larger local match than it expected.

The Bedford County School Board sued a parent for $600,000 in March, alleging that he’d used crude language and threatened legal action during repeated calls about his son. The parent had earlier filed a complaint with the state about the services his son was receiving.

The private college in Washington County has seen marked enrollment growth during Wells’ tenure as the school has prepared to transition to a university and move to NCAA Division II.

The announcement is the private university’s latest move to cut costs at a time when small colleges are in intense competition to attract new students.

Students interview retired miners who were involved in mine rescues from 1976 to 1992.