MANASSAS, Va. — More community college courses will be offered in more places in western Prince William County and Manassas Park.
This coming spring semester starting in January, the Manassas Campus of Northern Virginia Community College will begin holding classes are area high schools to make it easier for students to access educational opportunities.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — School officials on Wednesday night voted to approve Prince William County’s controversial 12th high school.
The $97.9 million high school will be one of the costliest ever built in Virginia, and for the past year it has been the center of a debate on whether or not it should include a $10 million swimming and aquatics facility inside the school. The Prince William County School Board on Wednesday, during their last meeting of the year, voted to approve the school pool along with the new school construction at the future school site on Va. 234 near Hoadly Road..
8:51 p.m. 12th high school approved
The Prince William County School Board has awarded a $97.9 million contract to build the county’s 12th high school on Va. 234. The new building will include a $10 million swimming and aquatics facility.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — School officials in Prince William County want to hear from the public on what do to do with artifacts found at the site of the soon-to-be-built 12th high school.
A series of graves were found at the school site near Va. 234 and Hoadly Road over the summer. Last month, those graves were dug up to make room for a football stadium for the new school site. The owners of the graves were identified as belonging to the Lynn family who used to live in the area in the late 1800s.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — When it comes to raising money to reduce class sizes in Prince William County, will property taxes go up, or will new taxes be levied on food, fun, and vices?
Officials elected to both the County Board of Supervisors and the School Board are wrangling with reducing the number of students per teacher in Prince William’s public schools. The county boasts the largest class sizes in the Washington, D.C. region.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Prince William County school officials mulled over an idea of extending winter break this year. They say the idea won’t work.
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HAYMARKET, Va. – A local leader says he wants more money for Prince William County’s public schools.
Gainesville District Supervisor Peter Candland held a town hall Thursday night at Alvey Elementary School in Haymarket to speak to area residents about what he said is the need to “act right away” to provide more funds to the county school board to cut class sizes, which are now at their maximum capacity, he said. The number of students in classrooms is larger than those of schools in neighboring Loudoun and Fairfax counties, according to a Washington Area Board of Education report.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — School officials tonight want to hear from residents whose children will attend the new Nokesville kindergarten through 8th grade school in Nokesville when it opens in September 2014.
Currently, students who live in the area of where the school is being built – on the Aden Road – would go to nearby Brentsville District High School.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Carolyn G. Lynn has spent countless hours researching the lives of past residents of Prince William County.
She publishes a blog, Prince William County Genealogy, and comes from a long line of Lynns – her family whose members that have called Prince William home since the at least the early 1800s.
Updated 11:15 a.m.
Prince William County officials have chimed in about the grave site situation at the site of the county’s soon-to-be-built 12th high school.
