- Emma Brown
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Emma Brown covers Virginia schools. She joined The Washington Post in 2009 and spent more than a year writing obituaries for all kinds of people, including a beloved local bookstore owner, a British woman who devoted her life to saving donkeys and a free-spirited fellow who once sailed across the Atlantic on a 51-foot raft built out of junk. Before her life as a reporter, she worked as a wilderness ranger in Wyoming and a middle-school math teacher in Alaska.
Virginia House votes to end some teacher job protections
The Virginia House of Delegates voted Monday to end tenure-related job protections for public school teachers.
House votes to eliminate teacher job protections
The Virginia House of Delegates voted 55-43 Monday to eliminate seniority-based job protections for public school teachers, a measure pushed by Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) as part of his education reform package.
House votes to eliminate teacher job protections
The fight now heads to the Senate, which is expected to vote Tuesday on a measure that would make far-reaching changes to teacher evaluations and employment.
Teacher job protections debated in Va.
Virginia lawmakers are debating whether to eliminate seniority-based job protections for public school teachers, making the commonwealth another front in a national fight over tenure laws that critics say protect ineffective educators from dismissal.
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