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Stafford High School to coordinate voter registration drive

Published January 13, 2020 at 10:36AM

Stafford High School

Press release | The senior class officers and Student Council Association (SCA) at Stafford High School (SHS) are coordinating a voter registration drive at 9:20 a.m. on Tuesday, January 21, 2020. Part motivational speech, part educational assembly, the event will inform SHS seniors on voter registration procedures, obtaining a photo identification, and the absentee ballot process before providing approximately 50 Chromebooks in the auditorium for students to register to vote.

“It’s important that the youth in this country honor their civic duty and vote because we are the future leaders of the world,” said Davis Smith, SHS Senior Class President. “We should do what we can to shape the future in whatever way possible.”

Closings & cancelations for Jan. 7, 2020

By Potomac Local News

Published January 7, 2020 at 9:54AM | Updated January 7, 2020 at 3:55PM

Schools

PWCS will close two hours early today due to forecast snow and icy conditions this afternoon. https://t.co/Vqy3gjBU8D

Manassas School Board re-appoints leaders, sets meeting times and dates

By Jillian Ellis

Published January 6, 2020 at 11:49AM | Updated January 9, 2020 at 4:19PM

Wiliams

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.

Stafford high Schools are ‘W!SE’ about financial literacy

By Potomac Local News

Published December 15, 2019 at 10:41AM

(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%.

19th Annual Breakfast with Santa at Forest Park High School

By Potomac Local News

Published December 12, 2019 at 9:33AM

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.

Babur Lateef keeps his Prince William School Board Chairman seat

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 5, 2019 at 9:37PM | Updated November 5, 2019 at 11:52PM

Lateef

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.

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Parents met with the Stafford School Board, Superintendent. Here’s what they want to know.

By Susie Webb

Published October 31, 2019 at 12:42PM | Updated October 31, 2019 at 3:41PM

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.

Stafford High School student a finalist in PBS Celebration of Music

By Press Release

Published October 20, 2019 at 6:05PM

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.

Stafford schools projects over budget, needed sooner

By Rick Horner

Published October 16, 2019 at 1:07PM | Updated October 16, 2019 at 2:24PM

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.

Kress named president of Northern Virginia Community College

By Press Release

Published October 9, 2019 at 8:55PM

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.”