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A training school, or county training school, was a type of segregated school for African American students found in the United States and Canada. In the Southern United States they were established to educate African Americans at elementary and secondary levels, especially as teachers; and in the Northern United States they existed as educational reformatory schools.
The concept of the Governor's School actually started as a three-year grant funded program in Stafford County, Virginia, from 1970 - 1972. One hundred Stafford public high school students were selected as "day students" and 100 public high school students from across the state were invited to be "on campus" students and were housed at the then Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
The Meyerhoff Scholars Program is noted for its success in increasing the representation of minority students in STEM. [4] In an attempt to determine whether this model can be replicated at large universities, two scholarships were founded at other universities in 2013: the Chancellor's Science Scholarship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Millennium Scholars Program ...
They perceive little correlation between racial diversity in the classroom and the performance of minority students in schools in existing data. [15] Historian and affirmative action opponent Stephan Thernstrom says mandatory racial diversity can cause harm, including immoral use of race-based student assignments and white flight in public schools.
The U.S. Department of Education is launching an investigation into several school districts in northern Virginia accused of maintaining gender identity policies.
In Virginia, the "massive resistance" campaign led Prince Edward County to close its public schools from 1959 to 1964; the only education in the county was a segregation academy, funded by state "tuition grants".
Education in James City County, Virginia (1 C, 2 P) K. Education in King George County, Virginia (1 C, 3 P) Education in King William County, Virginia (1 C, 3 P) L.
The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district ...