- Emma Brown
- Reporter
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.
Fairfax school board approves budget
Teachers will get a raise and families will no longer be required to pay $100-a-sport athletic fees.
Saying ‘Thank you’ with $800K
A Wolftrap Elementary alum donates in honor of a beloved teacher who changed his life.
Pass rates on Va. math tests expected to drop with more challenging exams
A Fairfax County math teacher says tests have always been easy for his students, but now, he’s not so sure.
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