A parliamentary maneuver today in the House of Delegates will prevent the General Laws Committee from reconsidering a bill to include gays in the state’s anti-discrimination policy. The maneuver follows an opinion issued last week in which Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said the state’s…

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has advised public colleges and universities that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation to rescind their policies because they lack legislative authority to do so. On Tuesday Virginia Commonwealth University will hold four forums at which faculty, staff…

Testily clashing over proposed cuts in state aid to public schools, House and Senate negotiators yesterday held out the possibility that budget-balancing talks could drag into June—and into the countdown hours for putting in place the state’s fiscal plan. With negotiators expected to miss…

A parliamentary maneuver yesterday in the House of Delegates will prevent the General Laws Committee from reconsidering a bill to include gays in the state’s anti-discrimination policy.

A bill expanding the state’s charter school law drew several senators to the floor expressing objections to siphoning public education dollars from traditional public schools

Judy G. Hample, the outgoing president of the University of Mary Washington, is stepping down early. Beginning April 1, Hample will begin an academic sabbatical that will continue until June 30, her previously scheduled departure date. “I offered to step down early so that the acting president…

College of William and Mary President Taylor Reveley just sent out a note to the school's students, faculty and staff assuring them that the school won't discriminate against gays regardless of the legal opinion of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. Reveley said that the school's lawyers - presumably…

Del. G.Manoli Loupassi has asked the attorney general to comment on the legality of language in the charter between the Richmond School Board and the fledgling Patrick Henry School.