The New Back to School
Updated: Oct. 16, 2020 at 6:39 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
The county school board voted in a remote meeting to start bringing kids back.
Updated: Oct. 16, 2020 at 3:54 PM EDT
|By Pete DeLuca
Students transitioned to fully-online learning from October 8 through October 16.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2020 at 7:04 PM EDT
|By Eddie Callahan
“From the beginning, we’ve said our instructional plan is an expandable plan, and now we’re expanding it,” said Superintendent Dr. Ken Nicely.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2020 at 8:45 PM EDT
|By Taia White and Eric Miller
The Roanoke County School Board is in support of a plan to bring third grade students back into the classroom for in-person instruction full time.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2020 at 11:29 AM EDT
|By Associated Press
Northam said the extra money would be used to help schools pay for testing supplies, personal protective equipment and technology needed for virtual learning.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2020 at 9:52 AM EDT
|By Eric Miller
The school board will vote on the proposal during its meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2020 at 5:04 PM EDT
|By Michael Alachnowicz
More kids returned to Lynchburg City schools Tuesday.
Updated: Oct. 7, 2020 at 3:51 PM EDT
|By Pete DeLuca
The school board is set to evaluate new plans Thursday night.
Updated: Oct. 1, 2020 at 10:58 PM EDT
|By Jen Cardone
Pulaski and Galax join Grayson County, who has been fully in the classroom since they first went back.
Updated: Oct. 1, 2020 at 7:12 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
Rockbridge County High School went all remote for the first nine weeks of school, which works for many courses. But what about their Career and Technical Education? Things like electronics, or carpentry and building trades? Well, they’ve come up with a solution for those too.
Updated: Oct. 1, 2020 at 6:12 PM EDT
|By Pete DeLuca
Parents say the current hybrid model is prioritizing the completion of assignments over actual learning.
Updated: Sep. 30, 2020 at 11:27 PM EDT
|By Eric Miller
The virtual town hall addressed many parent questions, but made clear the district has plenty of work to do before bringing students back for the second quarter.
Updated: Sep. 25, 2020 at 6:26 PM EDT
|By Kendall Davis
The Henry County School Board voted last night to start their in-person hybrid model on October 12th and now the virtual learning experience will be a bit different for students electing to stay virtual.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2020 at 7:58 PM EDT
|By Taia White
The Henry County School Board voted 5-2 in favor of a hybrid return to school by October 12.
Updated: Sep. 24, 2020 at 3:14 PM EDT
|By Pat Thomas and Jen Cardone
Students will return to class as long as no new cases of COVID-19 emerge through the weekend.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 10:35 PM EDT
|By Eric Miller
All virtual students will have a chance to return to the classroom ahead of schedule.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 6:55 PM EDT
|By Michael Alachnowicz
They say safety, communication and preparation are areas that need to be addressed.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 3:58 PM EDT
|By Ashley Boles
Roanoke County parents struggle with hybrid learning.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2020 at 11:27 AM EDT
|By Pat Thomas
A robocall has been sent to parents of students at the school.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 11:57 AM EDT
|By Pat Thomas
The original plan was to wait, and have online instruction take the lead, but school officials have determined it’s safe to have students return.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 at 1:36 AM EDT
|By Eric Miller
The university is the only one in Virginia to send students home because of a spike in COVID-19 cases.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2020 at 4:24 PM EDT
|By Michael Alachnowicz
Despite some initial challenges, they say having some students back has been a big plus.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2020 at 11:26 AM EDT
|By Pat Thomas
The goal is to get back to the already-set schedule September 28.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2020 at 5:48 PM EDT
|By Lindsay Cayne
She met with teachers and read to preschoolers to highlight organizations that have gone above and beyond during the pandemic.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2020 at 11:53 AM EDT
This change in schedule is set to begin Monday, September 14.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2020 at 4:57 AM EDT
|By Katey Roshetko
“Lots of changes. Lots of work over the summer," the Prices Fork Elementary School principal said.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2020 at 11:15 PM EDT
|By Eric Miller
The university's quarantine and isolation beds are currently 70 percent full. Officials say they want those beds, at most, at 50 percent capacity.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2020 at 5:03 PM EDT
|By Michael Alachnowicz
Kids at the school will be in class five days a week.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2020 at 1:44 PM EDT
|By Sarah Irby
Meals are available for all children 18 and under in Lynchburg, and 2-18 in Grayson.
Updated: Sep. 4, 2020 at 7:58 PM EDT
|By Ashley Boles
Smart Music is a tool to help students play pieces of music with varying levels of difficulty, from home.
Updated: Sep. 4, 2020 at 12:13 PM EDT
|By Pat Thomas
See the list of dates announced.
Updated: Sep. 4, 2020 at 5:37 AM EDT
|By Katey Roshetko
Kids 12-17 years old spend 6-9 hours a day online.
Updated: Sep. 3, 2020 at 10:12 PM EDT
|By Ashley Boles
A SRO's role isn't changing, but it is focused more on how to get to know the students, who are only in schools two days per week.
Updated: Sep. 3, 2020 at 6:30 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
Everyone from the Wildcat mascot to teachers and staff got together to do a lip synch video to bring a positive start to the school year, which will be all remote for the high school for the first nine weeks.
Updated: Sep. 3, 2020 at 4:44 PM EDT
|By Michael Alachnowicz
About 60 to 70 special education students will return to the classroom next week.
Updated: Sep. 2, 2020 at 5:56 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
The Washington and Lee English for Speakers of Other Languages Program and 50 Ways Rockbridge are reaching out via social media for gently used laptops and iPads that they can recondition and get to people who need access to equipment, but can’t afford it.
Updated: Sep. 2, 2020 at 5:49 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
Rockbridge County schools are getting ready for the start of school next week, and that means making sure the bus drivers are ready for the kindergarten through first graders, who can do in person learning while second through 12th grades are remote.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2020 at 11:34 PM EDT
|By Eric Miller
Several districts, including Henry, Patrick and Carroll have been back in class for weeks.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2020 at 5:26 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
The Rockbridge County schools’ IT people have moved into a classroom, bringing all their tech and student and teacher chromebooks with them, preparing for the schools to open with all remote instruction September 8.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2020 at 6:03 PM EDT
|By Lindsay Cayne
Parents expressed issues but school leaders say, overall, it was a successful first day.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2020 at 5:08 AM EDT
|By Ashley Anne
District leaders say around 500 students will be back in classrooms this semester, spread throughout different school buildings for social distancing.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2020 at 5:50 PM EDT
|By Lindsay Cayne
School leaders handed out free school supplies to families.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2020 at 5:46 PM EDT
|By Lindsay Cayne
This switch to all virtual is due to a rise in cases of COVID-19 in Radford.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2020 at 3:21 PM EDT
|By Eddie Callahan
There have been a few exposures and cases of COVID-19 within the school community, but all were contracted outside of the school system.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2020 at 11:23 PM EDT
|By Jen Cardone
As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Radford, we caught up with three Radford University students who made the difficult decision to take classes from home.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2020 at 5:24 PM EDT
|By Ashley Anne
The event has been moved from Saturday to Sunday because of the weekend’s forecast.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2020 at 4:20 AM EDT
|By Pete DeLuca
“They want to be known for being committed to excellence in safety as well as the student experience."
Updated: Aug. 27, 2020 at 5:31 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
Bath County students from kindergarten to high school are having to learn many new rules in their classrooms as they’ve made some changes to adapt to COVID.
Updated: Aug. 27, 2020 at 5:17 PM EDT
|By Lindsay Cayne
WDBJ7 looked at how one theatre program and one band program are changing.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2020 at 5:39 PM EDT
|By Michael Alachnowicz
Lynchburg City Schools and Nelson County Public Schools will use pickup sites and deliveries for meal distribution.