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The Viking

Democratic governor-elect Abigail Spanberger speaks at an Alexandria, VA rally, April 10

Democrats win big in 2025 general election

Claire O’Connor, Editor-in-Chief November 20, 2025

Following the 2024 election when the Republicans took control of the White House, Senate and House, the 2025 general election was a particularly important one for the Democratic Party. Highlighted elections...

Great Barrier Reef Foundation

Coral Reefs: What is happening?

Will Ruscitella, Staff Reporter November 3, 2025

Coral reefs are currently being deemed at a “tipping point” in ocean temperatures, meaning there has been a serious shift in death rates within coral reefs. What is happening?  Society has caught...

Virginia raises SOL passing scores

Virginia raises SOL passing scores

Claire O’Connor, Editor-in-Chief October 23, 2025

Last month, the Virginia Board of Education unanimously voted to raise SOL cut scores across all tests and all grades. The goal is to make sure that proficiency standards at the state level align with...

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More Students Absent Than Ever

Ash Woerner and Sophia Serice December 19, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed students out of schools — but now, some aren’t coming back. Since the 2018-2019 school year, rates of chronic absenteeism (the act of missing 10% or more of the school...

Strawberry Sky

Strawberry Sky

Emma Vann and Cora Ely June 14, 2022

On the night of June 14th, a rare celestial event will occur: a supermoon. A supermoon is when a full moon is at the closest point to Earth in its orbit. One peticularly special supermoon is the strawberry...

The Ukraine Issue

The Ukraine Issue

Daniel Marsh, Editor February 3, 2022

The recent tensions between Russia and Ukraine aren’t anything new. Grievances span from 2022 to Russia’s occupation of Crimea in 2013 to the Soviet Union’s dissolution in 1991, and with it the formation...

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