<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Virginia</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/education/va?nav=rss_education/va</link><description>Virginia</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Condolences  Pour In for Va.  Crash Victims]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12256-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12256-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When they heard about Monday's fatal school bus crash in Arlington, the students  --  from John Adams and James K. Polk elementary schools  --  wanted to help.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[County Teachers to Get Tailored Career Development]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11114-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11114-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ By the beginning of the 2006-07 academic year, schoolteachers in Prince William County should have a new professional development program offering courses that will be more specialized and tailored to their experience levels, school administrators said last week.]]></description><author> Ian Shapira</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[DNC Is Told Where to Move Into Bush Bloc]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12440-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12440-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Howard Dean's Democratic National Committee has been studying the electorate, and the party's problem with voters of faith is both worse and better than he feared.]]></description><author> Dan Balz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boy in Prince William School Siege Is Released]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10765-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10765-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A former Bull Run Middle School student who smuggled guns and ammunition into the building and briefly held a group of people hostage last year was released by the Department of Juvenile Justice this week, the Prince William County commonwealth's attorney's office said yesterday.]]></description><author> Tara Young</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honoring a School-Bound Girl]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10770-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10770-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Mourners were still filtering into the church half an hour after yesterday's funeral mass for Lilibeth Gomez began. By then, ushers had run out of white candles tied with pink ribbons and programs printed with a photo of the beaming 9-year-old, and the Northwest Washington church was standing room only.]]></description><author> Karin Brulliard</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Former Mayor Named Athletic Director]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10766-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10766-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Former Alexandria mayor Kerry J. Donley was appointed athletic director for the Alexandria City Public Schools, following a day of confusion about his status and an emergency School Board meeting last night.]]></description><author> Annie Gowen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crash Devastates 2nd Family]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8048-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8048-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Maria Garcia fastened a photograph of her cousin Harrison Orosco to a tree in front of his house yesterday morning. Then she walked around the yard and picked up two soccer balls and a volleyball and placed them under the picture of the 7-year-old boy who would not be playing with them anymore.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Va. Football Players Warm to New Goal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7956-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7956-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The seniors on a Fairfax County high school football team got a glimpse yesterday of their cameo appearance in a soon-to-be-released television  film, but their thoughts were not of stardom or the silver screen. These players were dreaming about saving the nation's wetlands.]]></description><author> Maria Glod</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawmaker Decries GMU Health Fair, 'Moral Depravity']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7992-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7992-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The clean-cut young man taking detailed notes stood out at a meeting of Pro-Choice Patriots at George Mason University on Wednesday night as the mostly female group discussed plans for its campuswide sexuality and health fair planned for next week.]]></description><author> Annie Gowen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Athletic Connection]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5244-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5244-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  You couldn't have asked for a more perfect day. Not a  cloud in the deep blue sky. Warm  --  but not too warm  --   and trees blooming like crazy. The day defined spring.]]></description><author> Timothy Dwyer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Va. Teacher Who Inspired With Art Dies in Crash]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2995-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2995-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  A 61-year-old Prince William County high school teacher who dedicated herself to helping young people express themselves through art and creative writing died yesterday from injuries she received in a hit-and-run accident, officials said.]]></description><author> Tara Young</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Bus Stop, Holding On a Bit Tighter]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2458-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2458-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Before Gisela Zuniga shepherded her 4-year-old daughter, Noelia, onto a bus heading to Arlington County's Hoffman-Boston Elementary School yesterday morning, she planted a kiss on the little girl's cheek and patted her shoulder.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Va. Soldier Described 'Bad Feeling,' Father Says]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3072-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3072-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Tromaine K. Toy Sr. was a husband, father and soldier, an outgoing man who left a tiny town on Virginia's Eastern Shore to serve in the Army all over the world: in Kosovo, in Korea and, finally, in Iraq.]]></description><author> Lisa Rein and Martin Weil</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common Worst Nightmare Links School Bus Drivers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3039-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3039-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In her 11 years driving a school bus, Linda Farbry woke every morning and said the same prayer: "Please, don't let anything happen to my bus today." She used to think: You pass safety training. You check your mirrors. You drive carefully. But anything can happen. That driver, bloodied and screaming by the side of the road in Arlington on Monday? That could have been you.]]></description><author> Brigid Schulte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[GWU Will Pay U.S. For Scholar's Theft]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3038-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3038-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ George Washington University has agreed to a $1.8 million settlement with the Justice Department to resolve a federal investigation of a professor who has admitted stealing government research funds.]]></description><author> Henri E. Cauvin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pr. William Budget Passed With 16-Cent Cut in Tax Rate]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3165-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3165-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Prince William County homeowners will see the lowest real estate tax rate in nearly four decades, but they will still pay on average $128 more in property taxes this year under the $765 million budget the Board of County Supervisors approved in a 6 to 2 vote yesterday.]]></description><author> Nikita Stewart</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bus Wreckage Is Searched for Answers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2459-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2459-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Investigators have ruled out major mechanical problems but came no closer to determining what caused an Arlington County school bus and a trash truck to collide.]]></description><author> Leef Smith and David Cho</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bus Crash Renews Debate on Seat Belts]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63970-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63970-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The fatal school bus crash Monday in Arlington stoked a debate that has simmered across the nation for decades: Why don't school buses have seat belts?]]></description><author> Nick Anderson  and David Cho</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fairfax Adopts $3 Billion Budget]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64476-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64476-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Fairfax County homeowners will pay $364 more on average in real estate taxes this year under a $3 billion budget the county board approved yesterday.]]></description><author> Lisa Rein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death of Va. Woman Found in Pond Investigated]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61721-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_education/va</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61721-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_education/va</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:48 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Steve and Judy Wear still were piecing together yesterday what had happened to their daughter, Beth, early Saturday, a day that should have been joyous but ended in tragedy.]]></description><author> Karin Brulliard</author></item></channel></rss>