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Manassas city schools expanding free breakfast, lunch to all students this school year 08/13/2024 02:51pm • All students in Manassas City Public Schools will receive free meals this school year as part of the federal school lunch program, the school division announced in a news release. The 7,700 students in the division will receive free breakfast and lunch at no charge during the school year, which b 'What you see, I might not see': All staff members at this DC school receive student mental health training 08/12/2024 04:07pm • From vaping, the cost of school supplies to cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series “WTOP Goes Back to School” this August and September. At Howard University Middle School of Mathemati 'As a mother of 4 kids, it’s too much': What a Fairfax Co. mom spends on school supplies — and how she saves 08/12/2024 04:46am • From vaping, the cost of school supplies to cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series “WTOP Goes Back to School” this August and September. Crayons, pencils, notebooks — even headph Fairfax Co. expands cellphone storage pilot program to include 9 high schools 08/09/2024 06:12pm • From vaping, the cost of school supplies to cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series “WTOP Goes Back to School” this August and September. A week after Fairfax County Public Schools unve When should athletes with concussions get moving again? Virginia school system updates protocol 08/06/2024 04:30pm • From vaping, the cost of school supplies to cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series “WTOP Goes Back to School” this August and September. Prince William County Public Schools has update What's new across DC-area school districts this year? 08/05/2024 04:38am • From vaping, the cost of school supplies to cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series "WTOP Goes Back to School" this August and September. The end of the summer is quickly approaching and Increasing number of people visiting Va. emergency departments say they vape, new analysis says 08/01/2024 05:45am • The number of people visiting Virginia emergency departments who say they vape as part of the intake process has more than doubled in the last four years, according to a new data analysis from the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association. In 2020, 23,630 patients who visited emergency rooms Marylander among those made ill by microdosing candies behind nearly 50 illnesses 07/07/2024 09:44am • Food and Drug Administration officials said dozens of people have been made ill, including one person in Maryland, after consuming Diamond Shruumz — a microdosing candy and gummy brand. Officials began an initial investigation on June 7, after receiving eight reports of illness connected with t These laws in DC, Maryland and Virginia take effect on July 1 07/01/2024 12:50am • Come Monday, there will be several new laws taking effect throughout D.C. region. Some of the laws raise the minimum wage, some crack down on animal cruelty and others regulate the ever-confusing ticket-selling landscape. Here are a few laws taking effect on July 1 in D.C., Maryland and Virginia: Virginia health officials launch ‘surveillance system’ for kids sickened by cannabis 05/09/2024 08:48am • Virginia officials are instructing health care providers to start keeping track of “adverse events” involving children and teens being exposed to cannabis products. In an April 24 letter to clinicians, State Health Commissioner Karen Shelton said her agency had received enough reports of mi Brittney Griner reflects on gut-wrenching moment she was detained in Russia in exclusive "20/20" special 04/29/2024 08:55am • (NEW YORK) -- WNBA star Brittney Griner, who was released from Russian detention in a prisoner swap in December 2022, opened up for the first time about her harrowing experience in a Russian prison in an exclusive interview that will air May 1 on a special edition of ABC News' 20/20. ABC's Good Morn 'Why is nothing being done?': Concerns grow about drug use, fighting in Montgomery Co. school bathrooms 04/18/2024 08:25pm • For many students in Montgomery County public schools, the bathrooms remain a no-go zone due to drug use and fighting. That's according to testimony at the most recent Board of Education meeting on April 11. During the public comment segment of the meeting, David Gebler, an English teacher at On the final day of Maryland's session, here are some bills you need to know about 04/08/2024 10:16pm • Maryland's General Assembly session began on Jan. 10 with dire news over projected deficits. It will end Monday with a total eclipse of the sun. In between, there was a lockdown in the legislative complex due to fears over a possible shooter near the premises, the Francis Scott Key Bridge collaps Flavored vape products could be pulled from Virginia shelves 04/02/2024 11:10am • Flavored vape products lacking Food and Drug Administration approval could be pulled from Virginia shelves, as a pair of identical bills head to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s desk for his signature. Del. Rodney Willett, D-Henrico, and Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Charlottesville, say their bills would help Canine units to start searching Loudoun Co. high schools for illegal narcotics 02/27/2024 09:02pm • Canine teams will start randomly searching Loudoun County, Virginia, high schools next month, Superintendent Aaron Spence said, as part of a plan to deter students from bringing illegal substances onto school campuses. The scans, which will be conducted through a partnership with the Loudoun Coun