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        <title>Standards of Learning</title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Skate shop in Portsmouth ramps up near park]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-19 01:34:01</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The main commercial corridor of the Cradock neighborhood, lined with boarded-up buildings and "for rent" signs, is among the last places someone would look for a hip retail business. 

But to Toney Herndon, it made supreme sense. 

Herndon, a Portsmouth...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Virginia Gazette Last Word for May 15: Nutria; Doctors Hospital; W&M curriculum]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-14 12:22:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Nutria 

"If the Nutria rodents are spreading and destroying wetlands (May 11 Gazette), why don't the local governments or the state government put a bounty on them? Florida has done this with the proliferation of python snakes in the Everglades and...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[3 Norfolk schools seek passes for tests to fix reading]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/sns-mct-3-norfolk-schools-seek-passes-for-tests-to-fix-20130513,0,7209845.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-05-13 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[At Norfolk's Tidewater Park Elementary School, nearly half the students tested last spring failed the state's standardized reading exams. 

That wasn't the first time the school's students -- many of whom come from impoverished families -- struggled in...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hampton schools considering access controls]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-01 15:35:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[HAMPTON &mdash; Hampton City Schools is considering adding access controls to enhance security at schools across the division. 

School Board members learned about the proposal Wednesday. 

School officials are working with vendors to gather more...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Waller Mill Elementary builds gardens to aid butterfly migration]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-26 12:48:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[YORK &ndash; Warm weather is bringing Monarch butterflies into Tidewater, and elementary schools in York County are making sure they have a place to take up residence. 

Making the journey north from Mexico to Canada is treacherous for the short-lived...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Is cursive disappearing from elementary schools?]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-10 13:35:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Learning cursive is almost a rite of passage in Elementary School.  But could the writing be on the wall for those squiggly letters?

More and more states are writing off daily cursive lessons throughout elementary school.  Virginia requires third graders...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[88 percent of the Class of 2012 graduated high school on time, according to Virginia Dept. of Education]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-10-23 09:13:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Eight-eight percent of the class of 2012 graduated on time, according to the Virginia Department of Education.

Also, the statewide dropout rate fell to 6.5 percent for the class of 2012, down from 7.2 percent for the class of 2011.

Highland County had a...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bay Day sweeps Botetourt County kids out of the classroom and into hands-on learning]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-10-16 12:17:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Splish-splash - and lots of screams.
It might look like weekend fun, but this is actually a school trip.

While these 4th graders from Buchanan, Breckinridge, Eagle Rock and Greenfield Elementary schools are having a good time, you can see from the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Education releases SOL results]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/wdbj7-virginia-department-of-education-releases-sol-results-20120926,0,1945064.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-09-26 14:02:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ninety-three percent of Virginia's public schools are fully accredited, according to numbers released Wednesday afternoon by the Virginia Department of Education.

According to the VDOE, 96 percent of elementary schools and 88 percent of middle schools...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Gloucester County schools earn full state accreditation status]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/dp-gloucester-county-schools-earn-full-state-accreditation-20120926,0,6042814.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-09-26 11:05:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[All eight Gloucester County schools received full accreditation by the Virginia Department of Education in a Wednesday announcement.

Gloucester joins 84 other Virginia school divisions, out of 132, in which all schools received accreditation....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Gloucester 6th- and 7th-grade SOL results]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-08-22 07:51:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Here are the results of the Peasley Middle School 6th- and 7th-grade Standards of Learning results released last week by the Virginia Department of Education.

6th Grade

Reading &ndash; 2010-11: 92; 2011-12: 89

Writing &ndash; 2010-11: 89; 2011-12:...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Gloucester High School's SOL results]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-08-22 08:18:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Here are the Gloucester High School Standards of Learning results for this year compared to last year. This year's scores were released last week by the Virginia Department of Education.

Gloucester High School

Reading &ndash; 2010-11: 93; 2011-12: 96...]]></description>
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