Roanoke City Public Schools (RCPS) has been awarded a grant from the Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) to upgrade its emergency shelter capacity at Patrick Henry High School and ...

Roanoke City Public Schools announced Tuesday that it had been awarded a grant from the Virginia Department of Emergency Management to upgrade its emergency shelter capacity at Patrick Henry and ...

ROANOKE, Va. – Roanoke City Council’s decision to change the school funding formula from 40 percent to 34 percent of tax revenue has left Roanoke City Public Schools facing a $16.5 million deficit.

Roanoke City Public Schools received a $450,000 state grant to build a solar-powered microgrid, which will make it the first K-12 school division in Virginia to have such a system.

Legislators turned their attention toward pressures on some of Virginia’s low-income people in recent days, but balked at a move to slow recent double-digit percent increases in rents. Read the ...