Gov. Glenn Youngkin is seeking to remove language from the state budget that would let school divisions use a statewide contract to encourage chronically absent students to return to school.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin is flanked by state Superintendent Lisa Coons, left, and Education Secretary Aimee Guidera during a news conference on Sept. 7, 2023.
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Photos: From the April 10 Virginia Tech Board of Visitors meeting
David Calhoun, the board’s vice rector and a Tech alumnus, is CEO of Boeing, one of the largest military contractors in the U.S., something with which the protesters took particular umbrage.
MATT GENTRY, The Roanoke Times
The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approved another annual tuition increase Tuesday.
MATT GENTRY, The Roanoke Times
Virginia Tech President Tim Sands, right, attempts to speak with a group of about a dozen protesters that displayed signs and chanted during Tuesday’s meeting of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
MATT GENTRY photos, The Roanoke Times
The protesters were asked to leave by university police, though some were allowed back in later and continued to hold their signs.
MATT GENTRY, The Roanoke Times
A group of about a dozen protesters leave Tuesday’s meeting of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors after being asked to leave by police.
MATT GENTRY, The Roanoke Times
New Virginia Tech women’s basketball coach Megan Duffy was introduced to the school’s Board of Visitors Tuesday.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin is flanked by state Superintendent Lisa Coons, left, and Education Secretary Aimee Guidera during a news conference on Sept. 7, 2023.
