Covering Annandale, Bailey's Crossroads, Lincolnia, and Seven Corners in Fairfax County, Virginia

Former principal urges school board to keep Wakefield kids at Annandale HS

Students express support for AHS at school board hearing. John Ponton, the former principal of Annandale High School, has come out squarely in favor of keeping the Wakefield Chapel community at Annandale High School. The proposed recommendation in the Annandale Regional Study, which the Fairfax County School Board is scheduled to vote on July 28, … Continued

FXCO school board weighs overcrowding vs. diversity

The issue of whether the need to maintain balanced diversity should outweigh the need to reduce overcrowding at Annandale High School dominated a school board work session on proposed boundary changes July 18. Board members engaged in a thoughtful, in-depth conversation about the larger issues raised by shifting the boundaries of  more than 20 schools in … Continued

Parents debate options to relieve Annandale school overcrowding

More than 150 people packed the Annandale Terrace Elementary School cafeteria Monday evening for the final community dialogue on the Annandale Regional Planning Study. This session was targeted to speakers of other languages, and there were translators on hand to help people make sense of the four options to relieve school overcrowding in Arabic, Cambodian, Farsi, … Continued