🍂 Loose Leaf Collection PSA 🍂 Newport News—our 2025–2026 Loose Leaf Collection Schedule is here! Crews will begin sweeping neighborhoods soon, and we want to make sure everyone is prepared. 📅 Collection Schedule Area 2: Begins December 1, 2025 Area 3: Begins December 22, 2025 Area 1: Begins January 20, 2026 Final Citywide Sweep: Begins February 9, 2026 How it works: Newport News is divided into three collection areas. Crews start in Area 2, move to Area 3, and finish in Area 1 before the fina

🚨 PSA for teachers parents 🚨 Homework in preschool and elementary school? NOPE. The research says it doesn’t actually move the needle until kids hit middle high school. Education researcher Harris Cooper reviewed decades of studies and found little to no academic benefit in the early grades. the payoff only shows up in middle and high school. John Hattie’s Visible Learning puts the homework effect size at basically zero for primary kids, but much stronger in secondary school. The Education End