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Richmond, Virginia offers many educational opportunities. Its urban school system is an award-winning, certified excellent education district. There is also an expansive number of higher education colleges and universities, scattered throughout the Greater Richmond region. Also, the surrounding counties (Henrico, Chesterfield, and Hanover) are also very successful school systems, Henrico establishing a first by initiating the Laptop program in 2001, the first in the nation to do so. Chesterfield and Hanover are also each systems with Blue Ribbon Schools. In latest years, the towns of Ashland, Virginia and Mechanicsville, Virginia have both been voted as the nation's top place to raise kids by BusinessWeek.

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