The Stafford School Board has decided to approve and roll out three new construction projects at their latest meeting on April 28.
Repairing the outer walls at North Stafford High School
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Five high school sophomores has started a 3-D printing business to help fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
The students, from Charles J. Colgan Sr. High School near Woodbridge, kicked their small 3D-printing business into high-gear, and a Woodbridge Senior High School teacher is working in his home basement to help in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus virus. The sophomore students are making 3D-printed masks for local first responders.
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Northern Virginia Community College is offering free online courses to high school students in certain Northern Virginia schools through their new JumpStart Program.
This program allows up to 3,500 students to take and gain transferable college credit from two of the following classes: History and Appreciation of Art I, Introduction to Communication, College Composition I (open only to recent high school graduates), History of World Civilization II, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure and Services, and Quantitative Reasoning.
Free WiFi is now available in all school parking lots in Stafford County.
Lime green signage in all the school parking lots mark where these outdoor WiFi hotspots are available.
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It was a conversation between the leaders of Prince William County’s biggest governing bodies.
On April 21. Prince William County School Board Chairman At-large Babur Lateef said he was ‘confident’ schools would reopen on time in the fall. He made the comments during a conversation with Prince William County Board of Supervisors Chair At-large Ann Wheeler, which was broadcast on Facebook.
Stafford Schools has taken a giant leap by announcing a graduation ceremony for high school seniors, joining Manassas City Public Schools in being one of the first area school divisions to set a date amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The tentative graduation date is August 1 at 8 a.m., but according to Superintendent Scott Kizner, nothing is set-in-stone.
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Manassas City Public Schools is the first school district in our region to announce a rescheduled, in-person graduation date since the coronavirus outbreak abruptly ended the academic school year last month.
Osbourn High School’s graduation ceremony will take place on July 18 in the school stadium at 9 a.m. Originally, it was scheduled for May 27 at the Eagle Bank Arena on George Mason University Campus in Fairfax.
Surrounded by Marvel action figures and posters on the bedroom wall behind him, all while sitting in the comfort of his own home, Del. Josh Cole (D-28, Fredericksburg, Stafford) hosted a virtual town hall Wednesday evening with Stafford County Schools Superintendent Scott Kizner and Fredericksburg City Public Schools Superintendent Marceline Catlett.
Both superintendents answered questions from the public about each school systems’ plan to continue educating its students from home after the coronavirus closed school buildings statewide until at least June 10.
Go to Fxbg, Stafford school superintendents talk online learning amid coronavirus outbreak
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Debra Howe, a former NOVA student who has gone on to a successful career in healthcare, is giving back to the school by donating $1 million to her existing endowed scholarship fund for NOVA nursing students.
According to a press release, the Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation (NOVA Foundation) is proud to announce an exceptional gift of $1 million from donor Debra Coffman Howe of Palm Beach, Florida.
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