education reporter @CardinalNewsVA | i love ☀️ and the South | past lives: @FauquierTimes, @Tennessean, @TimesFreePress | meghan@cardinalnews.org
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Apr 21
Some personal news, as they say: This week is my first as the new Education Reporter @CardinalNewsVA.
I'm super excited to dive into all things education in Virginia and to be back on the edu beat!
Email me story ideas/tips/just to say hey at meghan@cardinalnews.org 🐦
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Jun 10
Some political poetry from @natalie_allison on the brief rise & long fall of @NancyMace:
“… real political talent & promise … years of brazen political opportunism … hunger for media … turning on many allies … losing even her home county.”
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Jun 9
More children in Roanoke now have access to free books 📚 That's thanks to an expansion of @DollyParton's Imagination Library in the Roanoke Valley.
Check out this week's education briefs from @CardinalNewsVA ⬇️
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Tennessee leads nation in teacher loss | REPORT wate.com/news/education-scho… @6News @jcbowman @ToriGessnerTV #K12 #Tennessee
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Jun 8
Something @MollyJongFast told Bennington grads: “That eyebrow pierce will leave a scar. You’ll have trouble getting the barbell out and eventually someone will have to use tiny pliers to cut it out of your face.” nytimes.com/2026/06/05/opini…
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Matt Busse, business reporter @mbusse
Elizabeth Beyer, politics reporter @bethabeyer
Tad Dickens, technology reporter @tad_dickens
Meghan Mangrum, education reporter @memangrum
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You can still follow our reporters active on here at the handles below. You can also follow us at @ cardinalnewsva on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and YouTube. We hope to see you there!
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Cardinal News is signing off from X. The platform has decided to discontinue automatic posts from websites like ours and we do not have the capacity on our team to manually add from our wealth of stories. 🧵⬇️
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Here's the story @NPRCoryTurner produced on Alabama's math gains. #EWA26 kpcw.org/npr-news/2025-03-17…
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Incredibly motivating opening remarks from #EWA26 Interim Director Debbie Vaney about the state of our schools and of journalism as an industry. So happy to be here among friends.
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May 29
"Chief Eric Mendez reversed the decision from investigators, noting that Cy-Fair ISD had no policy specifically banning hogties" ... 👀
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May 28
My colleague @small_asher teamed up with @eliz_sander on a deep dive into how officers at the Cy-Fair school district use physical force. In one case, an officer used a judo throw on a middle-schooler. A different officer hogtied a 10-year-old three times. houstonchronicle.com/news/ho…
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May 28
C. S. Lewis with maybe the most important paragraph ever written for people with creative ambitions
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In a letter obtained by @CardinalNewsVA and @memangrum, John Rocovich fired back at Governor Abigail Spanberger.
Rocovich said, “I have committed no
malfeasance. I have not been derelict in my duties. I have attended meetings, fulfilled my obligations, and acted at all times in the best interests of Virginia Tech.”
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May 28
It’s official: the Senate will be meeting on June 22 to work on the budget.
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May 27
Gov. Spanberger talks to @DwayneYancey on her 31 vetoes:
"if I bowed to pressure and people trying to push me this way or that way, I wouldn’t be governor"
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May 28
BREAKING: In a letter notifying Rocovich of his firing, Gov. Abigail Spanberger accused him of conduct that violated codes that “require board members to act in accordance with the best interest of Virginia Tech."
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May 28
Police officers have become fixtures in Texas schools since the 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde. Some have used heavy-handed tactics on children, often in response to minor misbehavior, an @nytimes @ExpressNews investigation found.
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Searching small rural school districts' directories and seeing five names sharing about 3 dozen roles...
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May 26
Local school boards wield so much power in the classroom.
A new SCOTUS ruling may have sweeping effects on how those boards are organized... And experts say the ruling may disenfranchise communities of color, @meltzere reports:
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