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:
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Schools
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:
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John Paul The Great Catholic High School is on the air.
The school near Dumfries debuted a new low-power FM radio station 106.3 WJPN. The radio station will be used to broadcast classes, community information, and to simulcast the EWTN Catholic Radio Network.
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Millions of dollars of funds for Prince William County Public Schools remain up in the air.
The County’s Board of Supervisors passed its fiscal 2017 $1 billion budget — more than half of which goes to the county school division to provide majority funding for the education of 87,000 students in its 95 schools. The Board of Supervisors budget left the School Board about $7 million short of revenues it had anticipated getting if Supervisors had set and adopted a tax rate, which would have generated a higher average tax bill for county property owners.
A recent rash of absences from Henderson Elementary School in Montclair is now believed to be caused by a flu outbreak.
Prince William County Public Schools released this letter from Henderson Elementary School Principal Suzanne Bevens sent to parents and students. (more…)
Now open for dinner, Gar-Field High School’s cafeteria has become a popular hangout in the late afternoons for a simple reason. By 4 p.m., most teenagers are hungry.
Students from various colleges and universities across the county gathered on the Woodbridge Campus of Northern Virginia Community College to participate in a hackathon event organized by five NOVA cybersecurity and information technology students. The event was held at the Regional Center for Workforce Education and Training (RCWET) on April 8-10. (more…)
A new after school learning organization that centers around science, technology, engineering, arts, and music, (S.T.E.A.M.) is coming to Manassas for students in 4th through 12th grades. (more…)