STAFFORD — Three Stafford County elementary schools will have armed protection officers beginning the fall.
The Stafford Board of Supervisors voted to fund a low-cost pilot program that will place three new part-time sworn sheriff’s deputies and their full-time supervisor, a deputy sergeant, at the county’s sheriff’s office, will work as part of a $481,000 program during the 2018-19 school year.
GAINESVILLE — After a former Reagan Middle School Principal was transferred following allegations of bullying, the way the school division announced the move has now sparked as much or more controversy as the original bullying allegations.
Alfie Turner, a Prince William County school administrator whose worked at Coles Elementary, Potomac Middle, and most recently Reagan Middle School was reassigned to public schools headquarters in the human rescues office the following staff and parent and teacher allegations that she bullied them.
Dr. Babur Lateef, the newly appointed Prince William County School Board Chairman, says a plan funded by the county’s Board of Supervisors to put five armed community safety officers in elementary schools is a good idea.
“I fully support the pilot program. I believe it is another layer of security we can provide on a system that has multiple layers already. I look forward to the implementation of the program and the ultimate results. I think this program is a good example of community agencies, elected officials and community stakeholders working together to address serious concerns of the public,” Lateef states in an email to Potomac Local.
HAYMARKET — Elected leaders in Prince William County are voicing their displeasure with the way an external investigation into a longtime school administrator was handled.
The county’s school division on Friday notified parents via a letter that Ronald Reagan Middle School Principal Alfie Turner would not return to the school following an internal investigation into allegations she bullied teachers there. She was reassigned to the school division’s human resources office, and Roger Dallek, a principal who retired from Gar-Field High School in Woodbridge will serve as an interim principal until a replacement for Turner is hired.
WOODBRIDGE — The proposed Rays Regarde development in Woodbridge would tax an already overenrolled elementary school, according to county documents.
The new housing development that would be located at the end of Horner Road would bring about 160 new students to Woodbridge-area schools when it is built and then more in the following years, according to those same documents. The closest elementary school is the new Kilby Elementary which opened last year, which is already over capacity and cannot handle any new students, documents state.
STAFFORD — What do you want in a new schools superintendent?
Residents are invited to fill out an online survey from Stafford County Public Schools with questions about the characteristics they want to see in the school division’s next leader. The survey asks if the superintendent should be involved in teacher recruitment, setting the division’s school curriculum, or be focused on the finances of the school district.
WOODBRIDGE — Students at Potomac Senior High School are focused on how to prevent a mass shooting at their school.
About 200 gathered in the school’s Woodbridge auditorium at 3401 Panther Pride Drive on April 20, the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, to talk about the threat of shootings, as well as mental health issues.
STAFFORD — Officials will take about three-tenths of an acre of land on Juggins Road in North Stafford ahead of the opening of a new Moncure Elementary School.
The Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to take the property after ongoing negotiations between the homeowners association on Juggins Road and county officials failed. Per the association’s bylaws, two-thirds of the homeowners needed to approve the take of the property, but that didn’t happen.
