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Falls Church City schools to start classes before Labor Day next year

The Falls Church City school board is the latest school system to announce it will start classes before Labor Day next year. The board voted Tuesday night to start the school year on Aug. 24 — two weeks before Labor Day. The final day of classes will be June 10, 2019.

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Fairfax County, Loudoun County and Prince William County public schools have already voted to start classes next year before Labor Day. Arlington County Public Schools won’t make a decision on next year’s calendar until February. In Maryland, Montgomery and Frederick counties have also voted to start school next year before Labor Day. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s 2016 executive order requiring schools to open after Labor Day was overturned earlier this year by the Maryland General Assembly.

Va. health dept. improves nursing home inspection backlog, reforms sanction criteria for facilities

Stories of neglect in care or unsanitary living situations have plagued several of Virginia’s nursing home facilities in recent years and data backs up a lapse in oversight by state agencies.  With reform efforts underway, the Virginia Department of Health officials said they aim to adopt sanction criteria by the end of the year to rein in bad actors and get troubled facilities back on track.  As of July, 58% of Virginia’s nursing homes were overdue for inspections and 68 of Virginia’s 289 nursing homes were found to have serious deficiencies, according to ProPublica. Several of the state’s flagged facilities with numerous deficiencies also had high staffing turnover rates.  The issue has been salient among various healthcare spaces, including VDH. 
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