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Schools
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.
From a press release:
Approximately 356 students from various colleges, universities and high schools across the country gathered on the Woodbridge Campus of Northern Virginia Community College to participate in the third annual Innovation Hackathon event, held at the Regional Center for Workforce Education and Training (RCWET) on April 13-15. Individuals traveled as far as Florida to attend this year’s largest NOVA-Woodbridge Hackathon event since it began in 2016.
STAFFORD — Three-tenths of an acre could delay road improvements to be made ahead of the opening of a new Moncure Elementary School
County officials are having trouble convincing property owners to accept its offer for three-tenths of an acre of property on Juggins Road in North Stafford.
STAFFORD — School officials in Stafford County are running out of room.
By 2022, the school division anticipates will run out of seats at its schools, the School Board to call for more funds to build new schools and renovate existing ones.
Stafford county’s School Board is investing in its teachers with the purchase of 500 new Chromebook computers.
The Board voted Tuesday to spend $125,000 on the new machines.