The Trump administration wants nine colleges, including the University of Virginia, to agree to a broad set of political, educational and financial principles in exchange for access to federal funding.

But Democratic leaders in the Virginia Senate say that if UVa agrees to Trump's "compact" the university will risk losing its state funding, a foundational piece of a university's education budget. Government-politics

Virginia advances plan to ban transgender girls from girls sports

ERIC KOLENICH and DAVE RESS Richmond Times-Dispatch

On Monday, UVa's rector and its interim president wrote a letter to the university community saying it would be difficult for UVa to agree to certain provisions in the compact, which calls for schools to freeze tuition, cap international enrollment, lim

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