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Senators Webb and Warner today announced $3,247,990 in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds will go to the Louisa County School Board (LCSB) to pay for new school construction following…
The billion-plus people of India are experiencing phenomenal growth in their middle class, yet millions currently live in poverty in crowded urban slums. That was a focus of Senator Mark…
Senator Warner today announced a consulting agreement between the Virginia Foundation for Community Colleges Education and the India-based Wadhwani Foundation to promote skills-based education in India. The memorandum was signed…
We recently received a pleasant surprise in Senator Warner’s incoming mail: a bunch of handwritten thank you notes from more than a dozen students at William Monroe Middle School in…
Senator Warner spoke to almost 7,500 school teachers from across the Commonwealth during an hour-long telephone town hall on Monday night. The conversation ranged from proposed changes to the Elementary…
America’s economic recovery continues to pose tough challenges. Our citizens need good jobs, and our students need the skills to compete for those jobs in the years ahead. During a…
Three weeks after the President approved a National Park Service role at Virginia's historic Fort Monroe in Hampton, Senator Warner traveled to the Peninsula to meet with newly appointed Fort…
For our second campus town hall in as many days, we visited Old Dominion University in Norfolk. Senator Warner emphasized the need for a national competitiveness strategy, and students asked…
We began the first day of a two-day trip to Hampton Roads and the Peninsula with a visit to Hampton University. Senator Warner spoke to about 150 students about science,…
Senators Jim Webb (D-VA) and Mark Warner (D-VA) today introduced ���The Rehabilitation of Historic Schools Act of 2011,��� which provides a tax credit for communities to partner with private sector…