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Schools
Dr. Daniel Hornick has been selected as the new Superintendent of Orange County Public Schools, effective July 1, 2022. Hornick has led the team of North Stafford High School as principal for five years.
“I am humbled and grateful for this opportunity, and thank the family at North Nation for their steadfast support over the past several years,” said Hornick. “The educators, students, and families I have worked with are exceptional, and I have great respect for this incredible team.”
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On June 3 at 12:55 p.m., the School Resource Officer assigned to Freedom High School at 15201 Neabsco Mills Road in Woodbridge was contacted by school personnel regarding a fight between students.
The investigation revealed a 15-year-old male victim, a student, and a 17-year-old male student was involved in an ongoing altercation in a hallway. The accused punched the victim before he was kicked in the head multiple times during the encounter.
Prince William County Schools has partnered with Paper to provide K-12 students with unlimited tutoring, seven days a week and at no cost to families. The program was launched on May 19 and will be available for summer school and the 2022-23 school year.
Paper is an educational technologies company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and offers students with tutoring services such as help with their homework, receiving feedback on their writing assignments, or questions about any academic subject. Paper has experts available to assist students with any subject or content area via a secure, chat-based platform.
(The Center Square) – The Virginia budget deal, which passed both chambers of the General Assembly, would cut funding for a school choice tax credit program by more than half of its current funding.
The Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits Program provides a 65% tax credit for individuals or businesses who make donations for scholarships to students so they can attend certain private schools and nonpublic preschool programs. Current law caps the state funding for the program at $25 million per year, but a provision in the budget proposal would reduce that cap to only $12 million per year.
Germanna Community College has announced a new partnership with Old Dominion University as part of the accelerated “College Everywhere” online program.
The new partnership affirms a transfer agreement so that students who complete the one-year program and earn their associate degree can transfer to ODU’s online bachelor’s degree programs.
On Wednesday, May 18, at 11:30 a.m., a School Resource Officer (SRO) assigned to Freedom High School at 15201 Neabsco Mills Road in Woodbridge was notified by school personnel that a student had a knife inside the school, police said.
Prince William police reported the incident today.
A graduation ceremony was held Thursday, May 26, at 7 p.m., at Eagle Bank Arena on the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax.
Osbourn is the city’s only high school.
(The Center Square) – As Virginia lawmakers continue to debate the specifics of a proposed lab school program, Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears is arguing university-run charter schools, also known as lab schools, could help increase diversity in higher education.
Lab schools would be public K-12 schools run by a university or other higher education institution, which would focus on testing different education models and studying how various models affect students. Currently, there are no lab schools in Virginia and there are fewer than 10 charter schools.
The Mommy Room at Woodbridge Senior High School Lake Ridge has a new look.
Math teacher Joshua Johnson painted the room a soothing blue and added the letters “LOVE” to each wall. Former student Carolina Block helped make bulletin boards for staff members to hang up pictures of their babies. Executive Administrative Assistant Anita Sweeney, Assistant Principal Cynthia Treichler, and math teacher Katherine Mulligan also helped decorate the room.