are now on the state’s watch list for not meeting No Child Left Behind standards. The article says that a slight increase in test scores was not enough to keep extra schools from getting onto the list.

that tuition and fees in Virginia colleges this year are going up an average of 7.3% for undergrad students.

on the massive drop in schools that take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery exam.

the boom in the city’s under-5 set causing some massive competition to get into kindergarten.

that minority students at colleges in the state are helping recruit other minority students.

says that only 71% of the schools in the state are now meeting No Child Left Behind goals. That is down from over 75% last year.