Schools
Submitted by Manassas City Public Schools:
…The School Board of the City of Manassas will appoint a School Board Member to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Ellen M. Purdy. The appointee will serve until December 31, 2016. City of Manassas residents interested in being considered for appointment by the School Board should send letters of interest and a brief resume to the School Board, Attention: Clerk of the Board (mailing address: P.O. Box 520, Manassas, VA 20108) (street address: 8700 Centreville Road, Suite 400, Manassas, VA 20110).
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Senator Charles Colgan toured the newest high school in Prince William County this week.
The $110 million is the school is named after the retired 90-year-old senator, will include the county’s first in-school swimming pool and aquatics facility, and will open in September.
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Here’s what I know. on Tuesday morning, it was discovered that the senior rock at Forest Park High School had been vandalized with racial graffiti. The graffiti was covered with paint, and the school began investigating.
The following day a student and her parent painted over the rock in a white primer base coat, and school colors were to be subsequently painted over that. However, Wednesday night the rock was vandalized again. It was painted over with a metallic gold paint with the word “Better?”
Manassas City Public Schools is participating in the Summer Food Service Program. Meals will be provided to all children without charge and are the same for all children regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service.
Meals will be provided, at a first come, first serve basis, at the sites and times as follows:
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The Stafford County School Board appointed a new member to represent the Griffis-Widewater District following the abrupt resignation of Emily Fallon, who was elected to the position in November 2015.
More in a press release:
The Prince William County School Board will again vote on what model it will use for the 13th high school.
The $125 million school is slated to be built in the western portion of the county, to open in 2021, and relieve overcrowding at Battlefield, Patriot, and Stonewall Jackson High School. School officials haven’t’ said where the school will be built.
What would you do if you saw a bear outside your school? Here’s what Prince William County Public Schools did today: