As Chief Operating Officer, reporting to the Superintendent, and as a member of the Executive Cabinet, Bock is the principal adviser and assistant to the Superintendent for school support services. This position is responsible for the oversight of all facilities and grounds including 103 schools, centers, and support facilities. This position is responsible for the maintenance, improvement, and operation of these facilities, including the operation of 94 cafeterias. This position is also responsible for the oversight and operation of transportation services including 721 buses.

Bock has 26 years of experience in instructional and leadership roles across numerous school systems. He began his career as a high school math teacher. He subsequently worked as an assistant principal, principal, and assistant superintendent. Most recently, as associate superintendent for Frederick County Public Schools, Bock led the division Health and Safety Committee during the COVID-19 pandemic that prioritized the health and safety of students, faculty, and staff while providing in-person instruction.


Manassas teachers and residents on Tuesday will learn about new requirements for culturally responsive teaching, a tenant of Critical Race Theory (CRT).

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A concerned group of parents sent an email to the Stafford County Public School Board outlining their concerns regarding their children’s use of Chromebooks at home and are asking the board to take some type of action.

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The Fredericksburg regional library says it will do more to educate parents on how to safely search its catalog of books, e-books, audiobooks, and videos in the of a complaint filed by a Stafford County mother.

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(The Center Square) – Two new Virginia education laws are going into effect July 1 – one will give parents the authority to opt children out of sexually explicit coursework and the other will reinstate some requirements for teachers to report student misdemeanors to police.


[caption id="attachment_118033" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Germanna Community College Barbara J. Fried Center in Stafford County.[/caption]

Germanna Community College will soon move its Fried Center location to a new campus on Garrisonville Road in North Stafford.

During a recent Central Rappahannock Regional Library Board of Trustees meeting, the library announced the community college would move from its location at 124 Old Potomac Church Road in Stafford. CRRL operates a branch library inside the campus, known as the Barbara J. Fried Center, which opened in 2018.

Potomac Local News contacted Germanna Community College for comment. It declined to comment, citing an upcoming announcement.

According to CRRL Director Martha Hutzel, the new Germanna location will be near the library's Porter Branch on Parkway Boulevard. Due to its proximity to the existing branch library, it's unclear if CRRL will relocate the small library inside the Fried Center to the campus location.

If the CRRL decides the close the campus branch, Hutzel said other branches would absorb its location's collection. The Fried Branch has only one part-time employee who could be reassigned to another department.

Before opening its current location on Old Potomac Church Road near Stafford Hospital, Germanna operated its North Stafford Campus from the Aquia Park shopping center on Route 1, near a large post office.

The Fried Center offers all of Germanna's transfer programs, including cybersecurity, nursing, and business administration. The Fried Center started having capacity issues in its first year of operation with a population of 700 students.

An expansion of the Fried Center was considered in 2019, which would have covered health and science lab learning spaces and a microbiology lab. The total cost of the construction and the leasing would have cost Germanna $1 million.

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The Stafford School Board will host its first community listening session after a significant change to its regular meeting schedule.

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