In January 2022, in the first days of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s term, he gathered college leaders at the Capitol to announce a plan to open laboratory schools across the state.
Two years later, the state’s first lab school has opened quietly at Virginia Commonwealth University. Instead of creating a new school, leaders repositioned one that already existed — a regional high school in Richmond focused on computer science called CodeRVA. The state approved the lab school in July, and the partnership began in October.
On Wednesday, Youngkin gathered with education leaders and CodeRVA students at VCU to celebrate the lab school, called VCU x CodeRVA.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
