{"id":4586,"date":"2025-12-15T14:59:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=4586"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:59:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:59:25","slug":"vassp-member-update-december-15-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=4586","title":{"rendered":"VASSP Member Update, December 15, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This will be the last Member Update for 2025. We will resume the Member Update on January 12, 2026. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from VASSP!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>State Articles of Interest&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/virginiamercury.com\/2025\/12\/12\/most-va-schools-meeting-new-state-expectations-va-education-department-reports\/\">Most Va. schools meeting new state expectations, Va. education department reports \u2022 Virginia Mercury<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roanoke.com\/news\/local\/education\/k-12\/article_45a9410c-72a2-422b-9268-45d185a1d5dd.html#tracking-source=home-top-story\">Roanoke, county school leaders criticize new Virginia performance measure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vpm.org\/news\/2025-12-11\/virginia-beach-public-schools-teletherapy-students-6-12-jamison-dbhds\">Virginia Beach school system is making teletherapy free for some students<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/richmond.com\/news\/state-regional\/education\/article_5853ddc3-faf4-4ac7-86b6-f8ff9ea627b0.html\">See how your area&#8217;s K-12 schools rate in the state&#8217;s new rankings<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/richmond.com\/news\/state-regional\/education\/article_8b790502-c251-4422-b91a-e9e53c54f9a3.html#:~:text=Virginia's%20K-12%20schools%20face,to%20a%202.5%25%20vacancy%20rate\">Virginia\u2019s teacher vacancies decline again this year<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>National Articles of Interest<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.k12dive.com\/news\/justice-department-sues-minneapolis-diversity-equity-inclusion-union-contract\/807822\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Issue:%202025-12-15%20K-12%20Dive%20%5Bissue:79841%5D&amp;utm_term=K-12%20Dive\">DOJ targets teacher diversity efforts in lawsuit against Minnesota schools | K-12 Dive<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.k12dive.com\/news\/education-department-distributes-more-than-208m-in-new-mental-health-grant\/807736\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Issue:%202025-12-12%20K-12%20Dive%20%5Bissue:79791%5D&amp;utm_term=K-12%20Dive\">Education Department distributes more than $208M in new mental health grants | K-12 Dive<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.k12dive.com\/news\/Summer-school-math-reading-achievement-tutoring-research\/807357\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Issue:%202025-12-11%20K-12%20Dive%20%5Bissue:79731%5D&amp;utm_term=K-12%20Dive\">Summer school boosts math \u2014 but not reading \u2014 achievement, NWEA finds | K-12 Dive<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.k12dive.com\/news\/supreme-court-book-bans-libraries-school-llano-county-texas\/807441\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Issue:%202025-12-10%20K-12%20Dive%20%5Bissue:79669%5D&amp;utm_term=K-12%20Dive\">Supreme Court turns down book ban case | K-12 Dive<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.k12dive.com\/news\/UCLA-report-principals-say-ice-is-impacting-their-schools\/807358\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Issue:%202025-12-09%20K-12%20Dive%20%5Bissue:79620%5D&amp;utm_term=K-12%20Dive\">70% of high school principals say ICE is taking a toll on their schools<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will be the last Member Update for 2025. We will resume the Member Update on January 12, 2026. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from VASSP! State Articles of Interest&nbsp; Most Va. schools meeting new state expectations, Va. education department reports \u2022 Virginia Mercury Roanoke, county school leaders criticize new Virginia performance &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/?p=4586\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":875,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4587,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions\/4587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.vassp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}