WOODBRIDGE — A new elementary school in Woodbridge will be named for a long-serving member of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors.
Currently known as “Parkway Elementary School,” the new campus near Chinn Park Regional Library will be permanently named John D. Jenkins Elementary School.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — The Prince William County School Board like the idea of ads on school buses.
It met convened on February 7 and took a straw on this subject, and the board voted in favor of the advertising 5-3.
STAFFORD — The School Board postponed a series of planned public hearings on Feb. 12 and Feb. 26 for the ongoing elementary school redistricting process.
The move delays a commitment by the Board to have a redistricting plan in place by the end of the month in exchange for funds from the Board of Supervisors to purchase a building in North Stafford to be converted into head start center.
MANASSAS — The city council and school board have reached a temporary funding agreement for the fiscal year of 2020 that includes a 3 percent increase to Manassas City Public Schools.
The budget was decided at an annual city council retreat.
STAFFORD — Faced with redistricting all of Stafford County’s 17 elementary schools, the administration has decided to rely heavily on the contractor they hired to do the job.
The School Board met Tuesday evening to discuss possible solutions for the school system’s eight-month-long elementary school redistricting process which began with the School Board’s request to purchase the old Fredericksburg Christian School to house the county’s Northstar campus in June and will conclude in late February.
STAFFORD — County teachers on are on tap for a five percent raise in this year’s budget instead of the two percent originally planned.
Superintendent Dr. Scott Kizner unveiled his planned budget for FY 2020 that would begin on July 1. The requested budget will be around $328.5 million which is a 13 percent increase from the FY 2018 budget.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — Jackie Gaston is throwing her hat in the ring for Coles District School Board.
She’s a special education teacher in Fairfax County as well as a mother of three boys whose experience with PTO’s, meetings in the schools, and school improvement planning teams for her own children in who attend Prince William County Public Schools led her to want to serve.
STAFFORD — (Press Release) Stafford County Public Schools (SCPS) and members of Stafford Education Association (SEA) hope that a trip to Richmond to lobby state lawmakers will result in more funding for SCPS.
Thirty-five members of SEA will meet with their elected representatives on the morning of January 28, 2019, which is the Virginia Education Association’s annual Lobby Day.
