Prince William County Sheriff Glendell Hill awarded three $1,000 scholarships to three students pursuing education in the criminal justice field.
The presentation was held in the Prince William County Sheriff’s Office Conference Room with Hill awarding the prizes to the students on Thursday, May 21, 2020. James Bocopani, Abigail Houchin, and Chloe Martin were awarded the beneficial prize.
The Stafford County School Board has unanimously approved a plan to provide compensation to secondary, or middle school teachers who teach over 150 students or 25 class periods a week.
This compensation was amended into the Virginia Administrative Code last fiscal year, stating that if a secondary and/or middle school ‘classroom teacher teaches more than 150 students or 25 class periods per week, an appropriate contractual arrangement and compensation shall be provided.’
In February, Prince William County Schools Superintendent Steve Walts submitted his six-priority budget proposal for the 2020-2021 school year. The proposal, unique in nature, included 2.1 million to support student mental health, 4.8 million to support college/career/military readiness, and a 2.8% raise for teachers and staff.
The budget, and many of the aforementioned parts of it, has been slashed, as the Prince William Board of Supervisors approved a decrease of $10 million during their meeting on May 19, and the school board adopted it during their meeting on May 20.
Three years ago the Prince William County Planning Commission approved the location for the unnamed “13th” High School, with plans for it to open in September of 2021.
Now, the new high school is one step closer to gaining a name, as during the May 20 school board meeting ten possible names were put forth.
People can learn the history, chemistry, biological, and economic factors of the coronavirus pandemic through a new summer course.
Professors at the University of Mary Washington are sharing their knowledge through “COVID-19 in Context“, an eight-week online summer course starting Monday, June 1, that will be open free of charge to not only UMW students, faculty, alumni and staff, but also the community.
Prince William County leaders want to see the tweets.
The Board of County Supervisors voted 7-1 on Tuesday to direct County Attorney Michelle Robl to file a Freedom of Information Act records order demanding that at least 10,000 private, direct messages between students and Prince William County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Steven L. Walts be made public.
Students may be out of school for the rest of the academic year, but their GPAs are still going up.
The Prince William County School Board unanimously approved a motion during their May 6 meeting to direct Superintendent Dr. Steven L. Walts to make adjustments to student transcripts to reflect the new course weighting procedures for fall 2020.
Prince William Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Steven L. Walts suspended his Twitter account on Thursday afternoon after news that the School Board hired an outside attorney to look into his interactions with students on the social media platform.
Walts used Twitter to communicate with students in a manner that defies the school division’s established electronic communication policies that ban employees from accessing student’s personal accounts and using cell phones and other personal forms of electronic communication to communicate with students.
The Prince William County School Board hired an outside law firm to review Superintendent Steven L. Walt’s Twitter communications with students.
“The School Board is aware of the allegations recently asserted against the Divison Superintendent. In response to the filing of these complaints, early last month the School Board retained an independent outside firm to conduct an external review of Dr. Walts’ official twitter account to determine the validity of the allegations and provide the Board with a confidential report,” a statement read from Diana Gulotta, Director of Communication Services.
Prince William County Public Schools will hold a series of webinars to discuss planning for the future opening ‘Potomac Shores’ Middle School in Woodbridge.
The first virtual meeting will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday, May 7.
