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.
Baldwin Elementary School will celebrate the dedication of the Academic Hall of Fame Star wall on September 26, 2019, at 6:30 p.m.
When Baldwin Elementary moved to the new school facility in December of 2016 the Baldwin community wanted to preserve the Academic Hall of Fame tradition in the new school setting. After discussion and efforts to design a plaque that preserved the tradition while complimenting the aesthetic of the new building, the newest version of the Baldwin Academic Hall of Fame has been installed.
(Press Release) Broadcom Foundation and Society for Science & the Public recently announced the Top 300 competitors in the 9th annual Broadcom MASTERS competition, two of which are from Manassas.
The Broadcom MASTERS, a program of the Society for Science & the Public, is the nation’s premier Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) competition for middle school students.
Located in North Stafford and once a Christian school, it’s the newest county school facility.
“I was blown away by the work that they’ve done to get this up and running this year,” Northam said.
It’s called AWS Educate, and it’s billed as the future of learning the ins and outs of cloud computing in Virginia.
This collaboration between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the state’s K-12 school divisions, the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), and multiple four-year universities is aimed to create opportunities and build pathways to high-skilled and high-wage cloud computing careers for students in Virginia.
John Jenkins Elementary School was twice evacuated before it’s official opening August 26.
The school opened August 26 without issue, and classes continue interrupted.
The plan calls for the demolition of all men’s urinals in every county school.
Stafford County Public Schools Finance and Budget Committee (FABC) reviewed the plan (which can be seen here on page 10 of this PDF from the school division website).
HAYMARKET — The Battlefield High School (BHS) Bobcat varsity football team of Haymarket will kick off its first annual Military Appreciation Football Game on Friday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m.
This event, presented by BHS Athletic Booster Club and sponsored by Honor Brewing Co. of Manassas, will take place at Battlefield High School at 15000 Graduation Drive.
A new policy from Schools Superintendent Dr. Scott Kizner means they can’t take pictures of athletes during school sporting events.
Professional photographers Sandie Waters and Jen Mulenbruck are the inferred subjects of the new policy. The duo had been hired to take photos of athletics teams at Stafford and Colonial Forge high schools, respectively. They’ve been shooting team photos since 2013.
Lateef, the Prince William County School Board Chairman, At-large was not shy of saying the names of fellow Democrats also running for the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, the taxing authority that provides funding for the schools. He’s led the School Board overseeing Virginia’s second-largest school system in Prince William County for the past 16 months.
“We need more funding from the Board of County Supervisors and we’re not getting it due to Jeanine Lawson (sitting Brentsville District rep) and Ruth Anderson (sitting Occoquan District rep) who are not committed to our classrooms,” he said at Wednesday night’s Prince William Committee of 100 / League of Women Voters voter forum in Manassas.
