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PWCS will close two hours early today due to forecast snow and icy conditions this afternoon. https://t.co/Vqy3gjBU8D
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Schools
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Sanford Williams will continue to lead the Manassas City School Board as its chairman in the New Year.
He, as well as Vice-Chairman Kristen Kiefer, will carry over their titles from the previous year.
(Press Release) Colonial Forge, Mountain View, North Stafford, and Stafford High Schools earned recognition as Working in Support of Education (W!se) Financial Literacy Blue Star Schools for the 2018-2019 school year for their students’ outstanding performance on the W!se Financial Literacy Certification Test.
To receive this distinction, a school testing more than ten students must achieve an 80% passing rate on the “W!se” Financial Literacy Certification Test. Additionally, the school must have either a majority of students in a given grade level take the test, or have the students who took the test to achieve a minimum average score of 85%.
The 19th annual Breakfast with Santa at Forest Park High School (FPHS) will be held on Saturday, December 14, from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the school’s cafeteria with free holiday music and support from the U.S. Marines. A press release states:
The annual holiday event, which is free and open to the public, invites families and members of the Dumfries community to celebrate the holidays with the FPHS students and staff.
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Lateef won his second election to the seat in as many years, beating the same two challengers who ran against him last year in a special election.
School Board Chairman At-large
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As part of a biannual listening tour, Stafford County residents may ask questions of school officials about issues that matter to them.
There were questions about the county’s population and its projected effects on school growth were the topics of several questions, and confusion about the county’s soon-to-be-built sixth high, and 18th elementary schools.
The talent search competition showcases the best young musical talent throughout the United States, with the winner performing at the Los Angeles Celebration of Music National Show.
Lynch will perform “Nothing” during a concert for local finalists at the Gordon Center for the Performing Arts in Baltimore on Thursday, October 24.
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The projects in the school division’s capital improvement plan include a new high sixth school, a new elementary school, renovations for both Hartwood Elementary and Drew Middle schools.
Why it matters: The current CIP wishlist exceeds the county’s current level of debt affordability.
Dr. Anne M. Kress, currently of Rochester, New York, will become the next president of Northern Virginia Community College.
“From the earliest stages of this process, the NOVA college community placed a premium on successful leadership experience and Anne Kress offers that and more,” said Dr. Glenn DuBois, chancellor of Virginia’s Community Colleges. “Throughout her 30-year career, she has seen the way a community college works at practically every level and her external experience, through various national organizations, demonstrates that she is prepared to lead an institution as large, diverse, and dynamic as NOVA.”
School Board members blame the efforts to fund the deal, which would have removed the majority of trailer classrooms, on the Board of County Supervisors.
“It’ just seems like there is no desire on the part of the Board of Supervisors to take action on this,” said Woodbridge District School Board member Loree Williams, who also sits on the Joint Schools Working Committee that has been discussing this issue.