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Long COVID can be debilitating, even for healthy kids 01/14/2023 06:07pm • Jessica Rosario loved watching her 15-year-old, Eliana, play flute with the rest of the marching band during Open Door Christian School football games. But after the homecoming game in 2021, she got an alarming call from the Ohio school's band director. Rosario's daughter was on the floor of the Marine foundation receives $65 million gift 01/14/2023 12:08pm • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation has announced the largest gift in its 60-year history, $65 million from Fred Smith, a Marine Md. teacher 'inadvertently' sends explicit photos in email to students 01/14/2023 08:10am • An Upper Marlboro, Maryland, teacher won't face criminal charges after sending a lewd email to students. On Friday, administrators at Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School sent an email to students' families acknowledging that an employee sent sexually explicit images in an email to the entire studen Proposed Fairfax Co. school budget would boost security, bring officers to elementary schools 01/14/2023 01:30am • Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Michelle Reid unveiled her proposed $3.5 billion budget for fiscal 2024 on Thursday night, which includes funding for elementary school security and a 3% cost-of-living raise for all employees. Reid's proposed budget allocates $400,000 for "safety and Student teacher's 'inappropriate' lesson had children acting as slaves, landowners 01/13/2023 02:34pm • Parents of fifth grade students in Centreville, Virginia, learned this week that in teaching their kids about slavery, a student teacher chose to have the children play slaves and landowners. The Fairfax County school system is addressing the inappropriate lesson. In a letter home to parents, Cen Md. high school investigating after video shows student bullying classmate with special needs 01/13/2023 01:57pm • Officials at a high school in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, say they are investigating after a video showing a student bullying a classmate with special needs and using racial slurs was widely shared with students and staff earlier this week. The video was shared via AirDrop on Tuesday afternoon Montgomery Co. school board OKs plan for virtual learning during snow days 01/13/2023 11:25am • The board of education in Montgomery County, Maryland, approved a resolution on Thursday that gives its superintendent the option to switch to virtual learning on snow days. "This would just give us another option to maintain instruction if we had a multi-day event," said Brian Hull, chief operat DC region schools ban AI tool ChatGPT 01/12/2023 06:45pm • During a recent theology class at DeMatha Catholic High School in Prince George's County, Maryland, a student used his phone to access the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT. The site is blocked on school-issued Chromebooks, so the student placed his phone on the chair next to him and typed the Superintendent: 3 Loudoun Co. schools didn't inform students of National Merit recognition 01/11/2023 06:22pm • Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia is working to standardized its process for notifying students of National Merit recognition, after three high schools took longer to notify National Merit "Commended Scholars." Acting Superintendent Daniel Smith told the school board Tuesday night that 14 2 juveniles dead, 1 injured in Fairfax Station crash 01/11/2023 05:53pm • A crash claimed the lives of two teenage girls and seriously injured another in Fairfax Station, Virginia, late Tuesday — marking Fairfax County's first non-pedestrian traffic deaths of the new year. Fairfax County officers were called to the 7400 block of Lee Chapel Road just before 9:30 p.m. Will early endorsement pay off for Prince George’s Co. as legislative session begins? 01/11/2023 03:33pm • Prince George’s County, Maryland, Executive Angela Alsobrooks arrived in Annapolis Wednesday morning, hours before the legislative session got underway. Though Christmas may have been a few weeks ago, she still brought a wish list of budget priorities she hopes will get filled before lawmakers Police: Prince George's Co. middle schoolers receive online threats 01/11/2023 08:35am • Police in Prince George's County, Maryland, say they're investigating threats made over social media extorting middle schoolers who may have been targeted. A Prince George's police spokesperson told WTOP that four students received messages on Instagram and TikTok this week telling them that they Montgomery Co. elementary educator receives 'Oscar award' of teaching 01/11/2023 06:13am • At Fairland Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland, a gymnasium full of students erupted in cheers as one of their teachers was named the best of the best in the nation. The students were celebrating third grade teacher Dion Jones being selected as a Milken Educator Award recipient. 7 Virginia men arrested in 'online predator' sting 01/10/2023 02:07pm • Police have arrested and charged seven Virginia men as part of a sting operation targeting online predators. The Fairfax County-led operation was carried out in December and involved law enforcement officers posing as children online. Police said the seven men initiated explicit conversations and Maryland college savings program says glitch fixed, but 'confusion' remains 01/09/2023 04:34pm • Parents are still having a difficult time accessing money they have saved in a Maryland college savings program, despite a claim by program administrators that a glitch has been fixed. "I still don't have any access to that money," said Brian Savoie, a father impacted by the problem. "I've been t