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Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe will hold a parent roundtable at a newly renovated media center at Brooke Point High School.
The governor will meet with 13 parents of Stafford County school children. He’s expected to discuss standards of learning tests and holding schools more accountable for student success.
The governor’s roundtable will begin at 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 3. The event is open to the public.
Brooke Point High School is the only school in the county to have a newly refitted library, turned media center. The one-of-a-kind center looks more like a TV studio than a library, and will have large tables designed for student collaboration, and more than 30 computer workstations that allow everyone access to online services.
“It is cutting edge stuff, it really is,” said Stafford County Supervisor of Facility Design and Construction Quintin Sullivan.
Construction of the remodeled library turned media center began June 15, immediately after school dismissed for summer. Library books and other materials were removed from the room and stored inside three classrooms during construction.
The library will keep the same number of books it had before, but school officials say the new media center serves as a model of what new school libraries will look like in Stafford.
“There’re not a whole lot of books because that’s not what we 21st-century learning environment,” said Stafford County Public Schools spokeswoman Valerie Cottongim. “This is the only center of its kind in the county, and I don’t think it will be the last.”
