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.

Latest by Emma Brown

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

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

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.