Education news

Virginia’s 6th District congressman, Ben Cline, is cosponsoring a bill to terminate the Department of Education as President Donald Trump threatens to sign an executive order to dismantle it.

The Trump administration's reduction in NIH funding could have economic impacts on communities like Blacksburg, Roanoke and Charlottesville.

Virginia receives over $650 million a year in federal grant funding from NIH. That employs over 7,500 people and creates over $1.7 billion in economic activity.

Colleges across the country offer classes focusing on the economics, music and the politics of Taylor Swift. At Christopher Newport University, honors students use her discography to study music theory.

Soundscapes started as an afterschool music program in Newport News, but now includes performance orchestras for youth musicians.

The project, called an “environmental justice incubator,” is working with historically Black communities on Norfolk’s Southside.

Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky are “word nerds” who met in an Old Dominion University syntax class.

A $9 million grant will fund a new Advancing Cancer Control Equity Research Center to reduce cancer rates in Hampton Roads and Richmond.

There is a long-running battle in Virginia over how to manage the menhaden fishery – and the lack of data about the species continues to be front and center.

The new scholarship is part of a wider effort to boost education around science journalism at the historically Black university.