Schools

(The Center Square) – The Virginia budget deal, which passed both chambers of the General Assembly, would cut funding for a school choice tax credit program by more than half of its current funding.

The Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits Program provides a 65% tax credit for individuals or businesses who make donations for scholarships to students so they can attend certain private schools and nonpublic preschool programs. Current law caps the state funding for the program at $25 million per year, but a provision in the budget proposal would reduce that cap to only $12 million per year.

Germanna Community College has announced a new partnership with Old Dominion University as part of the accelerated “College Everywhere” online program.

The new partnership affirms a transfer agreement so that students who complete the one-year program and earn their associate degree can transfer to ODU’s online bachelor’s degree programs.

A graduation ceremony was held Thursday, May 26, at 7 p.m., at Eagle Bank Arena on the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax.

Osbourn is the city’s only high school.

(The Center Square) – As Virginia lawmakers continue to debate the specifics of a proposed lab school program, Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears is arguing university-run charter schools, also known as lab schools, could help increase diversity in higher education.

Lab schools would be public K-12 schools run by a university or other higher education institution, which would focus on testing different education models and studying how various models affect students. Currently, there are no lab schools in Virginia and there are fewer than 10 charter schools.