Inadequate education for Fairfax disabled students and more Va. headlines

The State Capitol. (Ned Oliver/ Virginia Mercury)

• Gov. Glenn Youngkin bucked tradition by becoming the first governor in almost three decades not to take an overseas trade trip during his first year in the job, a period when he took 19 out-of-state trips for political purposes. A Youngkin spokesman defended the lack of trade missions, saying Youngkin’s extensive business connections made travel unnecessary.—Washington Post

• Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia’s largest school system, failed to provide adequate educational services for students with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, a federal investigation concluded.—WTOP

• “In Virginia, the land still owned by the Coles family could yield billions from uranium. Does any of that wealth belong to the descendants of the enslaved?”—Washington Post

• A Prince William County judge threw out a pair of lawsuits Republican activists filed seeking to undo the certification of the county’s midterm election results. “At some point we need to trust that the people we put in place to do these things are doing them,” the judge said.—Prince William Times

• Wild Thing, the oldest of Chincoteague’s ponies, has died at 25. “He has crossed the rainbow bridge and joined the big herd in the sky,” the local volunteer fire department wrote in a tribute to the “Popes Island Stud.”—Virginian-Pilot

by Staff Report, Virginia Mercury

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