Frustrated with online classes, parents blasted Fauquier’s school board and administrators for 85 minutes Monday night.
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It doesn’t open until next fall, and there is already a call to rename an area high school.
Richard Jessie, the husband of Lillie Jessie, who represents the Occoquan District on the Prince William County School Board, created a petition to rename the unopened Gainesville High School due to its name’s ties to Thomas Brawner Gaines, a prominent land and slave owner before the Civil War. The petition, having only been active for days, has over 100 signatures.
Prince William County Public Schools will begin the process of naming “Potomac Shores” Middle School, opening for the 2021-22 school year, through virtual meetings.
An effort to require Virginia school districts provide in-person classes to students with poor internet access during the COVID-19 pandemic is most likely dead.
House Bill 5009, introduced by Del. Mark Cole, R-Fredericksburg, would require public schools to offer in-person classes to elementary, middle and high school students who have substandard internet connections at home.
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Retirees formerly employed by Stafford County Public Schools will soon have a different health insurance provider.
The School Board has unanimously approved a one-year contract with United Healthcare as the new retiree supplemental group health insurance provider for retirees who are eligible for Medicare Part B.
Robyn Schwenk is a full time registered nurse in Fredericksburg.
As of late, she’s been spending more time out of the office helping her child with the challenges that come with distance learning.
Prince William County Public Schools now has $20 million federal CARES Act funding.
The award was made by the Board of County Supervisors during its Tuesday meeting. The new money is in addition to $5 million that supervisors have already given to the school division since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
A wide-ranging message from Prince William County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Steven L. Walts as families and students prepare to head back to class on September 8.
From Prince William County Public Schools
Students returning to campus this fall will find vending machines stocked full of snacks, sodas, and now personal protective equipment too.
The machines located throughout Richmond-based Virginia Commonwealth University are filled with masks and hand sanitizer and soon, wipes. The supplies are available to students and employees for free, with a once a month limit. Individuals choose what they need and swipe their VCUCard to dispense a product.
While school buildings in Prince William Count are closed to students, the county’s parks and recreation division will offer a daycare program for children outside Manassas, and in Woodbridge.
Prince William County Coles District Supervisor Yesli Vega writes to her constituents: