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Fairfax Co. superintendent says frequent background checks in the works, calls for Va. to sign up for FBI program 09/30/2022 02:38pm • Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia this week released some of the findings of an independent investigation into how a school counselor was able to keep his arrest and conviction for a sex offense under wraps until he was arrested for a second time. One finding recommended frequent backgrou Access to some college savings funds will be curtailed until at least Oct., Md. official says 09/30/2022 10:56am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Families enrolled in a popular college savings plan will face additional delays in accessing their funds, the official in charge of Maryla Some DC workers see a big jump in paid family leave 09/30/2022 08:31am • Starting Saturday, some D.C. workers could be eligible for several more weeks of family leave. Hundreds of thousands of private sector employees will get a jump from eight weeks of paid family leave to 12 weeks per year and D.C. government employees are likely to join them. More DC New What's being done to address students' mental wellness? 09/30/2022 06:06am • Welcome to the School Zone, WTOP’s weekly feature about the latest topics and trends in education across the D.C. region. How DC-area school systems are addressing students' mental wellness What it is: School leaders in Prince William County, Virginia, the state's second largest school system, w Congressional Black Caucus screens 'Why Is We Americans?' narrated by Lauryn Hill 09/30/2022 02:15am • Lauryn Hill is known for hit records like "Killing Me Softly" and "Doo Wop (That Thing)." Now, she's narrating and executive producing the documentary "Why Is We Americans?" that will screen at Planet Word Museum at 13th Street Northwest D.C. on Friday at 5:30 p.m. The event is sponsore Report: Number of pregnancy-related deaths in US getting worse 09/29/2022 08:33pm • Eighty percent of pregnancy-related deaths in 36 U.S. states between 2017 and 2019 were found to be preventable, according to a report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Advocates for maternal health find the report sobering, noting that the problem is getting worse, not Frederick Co. school vows to discipline student who made racial slurs 09/29/2022 05:52pm • Frederick County, Maryland, school officials are investigating after a high school student was filmed using hate speech and making racial slurs. In a letter to the school community on Thursday afternoon, Governor Thomas Johnson High School Principal Tracey Kibler said the school will take discipl 1st Loudoun Co. school ombudsperson aims to 'really truly listen' to help resolve concerns 09/29/2022 01:36pm • For the first-ever ombudsperson in the Loudoun County Public Schools — Virginia's third-largest school district, highly ranked and scrutinized in recent years — a large part of the job involves not saying a word. In her first interview since LCPS' announcement of her hiring, Carey Williams to Gaithersburg, Leesburg make Fortune's 'Best Places to Live for Families' list 09/29/2022 10:40am • A city in Maryland and a town in Virginia are being called some of the "best places to live for families" by Fortune magazine. Gaithersburg in Montgomery County, Maryland, ranked No. 7, and the town of Leesburg in Loudoun County, Virginia, ranked No. 8 in the inaugural "Fortune 25 Best Places to Maryland car seat law takes effect Saturday 09/29/2022 04:20am • A law in Maryland about children's car seats goes into effect Saturday. It aims to clear up some confusion about the type of car seat that should be used. "We want to keep our youngest children in the vehicle as safe as possible," said Chrissy Nizer, the administrator of Maryland's Motor Vehi Survey: Cursing is all too common 09/28/2022 04:02pm • When you think about it, profanity is such a strange thing. It’s a select group of words that most of us learned surreptitiously as kids, right before we learned that repeating those select words can get us either in trouble or in big trouble, depending on how chill our parents were at the time Report: More background, reference checks after Fairfax Co. school counselor dismissal 09/27/2022 11:59pm • After a Fairfax County, Virginia, counselor managed to stay on the job for 20 months after his first sex crime arrest and conviction, the county's school system ordered an independent look into what went wrong and how to prevent a similar siltation in the future. Some of the report's results and rec Va. students walk out in protest of Youngkin transgender policies 09/27/2022 03:42pm • On Tuesday, some students around Northern Virginia staged walkouts, as a protest against Gov. Glenn Youngkin's policy changes that impact LGBTQ students. Dozens of schools participated in the walkout, including campuses in Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun, Arlington and Stafford counties. An adoption can be empowering for a teen in foster care — and rewarding for new parents 09/27/2022 02:46pm • Many of the 117,000 children in the U.S. foster care system who are waiting to be adopted are teenagers eager for forever homes, and advocates want people to know they can help. "One thing that I hear quite often from families that may be thinking about it, but gives them pause, is the myths or t 2 general elections that will tell us a lot about the state of Md. politics 09/27/2022 09:53am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Go ahead, pay close attention to the three general elections for statewide office. A recent poll suggests that Democrats are in pretty goo