December 25, 2024
Covering Annandale, Bailey's Crossroads, Lincolnia, and Seven Corners in Fairfax County, Virginia
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Tag: school board

More school holidays next year

#holidays, #school board, #schools

The Fairfax County School Board adopted a calendar for the 2022-23 school year that adds four religious holidays. Schools will be closed next year on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Orthodox Good Friday, and Diwali. (Eid and Lunar New Year fall on a non-school day in 2022.) There will be 14 professional work days for educators. … Continued

School boards sue governor over masks

#Covid, #FCPS, #legal, #school board

The Fairfax County School Board joined with six other school boards in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Executive Order 2. That document gives parents the right to disregard the state’s universal mask mandate. The other plaintiffs include the school boards of Alexandria City, Arlington County, City of Richmond, Falls Church City, … Continued

FCPS will notify parents about the importance of safe gun storage

#Brabrand, #guns, #school board, #shooting
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Secure gun storage could help prevent school shootings, like the recent one at Oxford High School in Michigan. [Jake May/Flint Journal] Fairfax County Public Schools will notify parents and guardians about Virginia’s secure firearm safety law, Superintendent Scott Brabrand announced Dec. 16.  FCPS will also inform parents about why secure storage is essential and other … Continued

Survey seeks input on parking lot in Justice Park – even though that proposal dead

#Anderson, #Justice High School, #land use, #parking, #parks, #school board
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Justice Park with Justice High School in the background. A survey from Mason school board member Ricardy Anderson revisits the controversy over whether a parking lot should be created in Justice Park to accommodate a forthcoming addition for Justice High School – even though Fairfax County Public Schools and the Park Authority both rejected the parking lot … Continued

Former Justice High School principal Penny Gros promoted to assistant superintendent

#Justice High School, #school board, #schools
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Gros [FCPS] Penny Gros, the former principal of Glasgow Middle School and Justice High School, continues to move up in the Fairfax County Public Schools hierarchy.  The school board approved her appointment as the assistant superintendent for Region 4, effective July 1.  In that role, she will be responsible for student achievement, assessment, and the … Continued

School board approves boundary change but parents upset with lack of community engagement

#children, #families, #school board, #schools
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The boundary adjustment map approved by the school board. Click to enlarge. The Fairfax County School Board approved a boundary adjustment June 17 that changes the attendance areas of elementary schools within the Justice High School pyramid.  While the school board passed a motion to reduce the negative impact on families in the Sleepy Hollow … Continued

Sleepy Hollow families oppose school boundary change

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Sleepy Hollow Elementary School [FCPS] Residents of the Sleepy Hollow neighborhood are fighting Fairfax County Public Schools’ plan to transfer their children from Sleepy Hollow Elementary School to Beech Tree Elementary.  Many parents say transferring students after the disruptive pandemic year would be traumatic, and they charge FCPS hasn’t given them a solid rationale for … Continued

Parents invited to school boundary study meetings

#Justice High School, #school board, #schools
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Modular units handle the overflow at Glen Forest Elementary School. Fairfax County Public Schools is moving into the next phase of the boundary adjustment process for elementary schools in the Justice High School pyramid.  FCPS is considering changes to the attendance areas to accommodate overcrowding at Glen Forest Elementary School in Bailey’s Crossroads and address … Continued

School board rejects proposal to close school for four more religious holidays

#diversity, #holidays, #religion, #school board, #schools
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Despite intense lobbying from families and faith communities, the Fairfax County School Board adopted a 2021-22 calendar that does not close schools on four holidays important to the Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh communities.  Religious groups and individual families had urged the board to close schools on Rosh Hashanah (Sept. 6), Yom Kippur (Sept. 15), … Continued

Fairfax County School Board delays in-person instruction

#Anderson, #Brabrand, #coronavirus, #Covid, #education, #health, #school board, #schools
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Staff at Poe Middle School prepare new books for delivery to students’ homes. [FCPS] The Fairfax County School Board agreed to pause Superintendent Scott Brabrand’s updated plan for returning all students to in-person learning.  Under Brabrand’s proposal, presented at a school board work session Jan. 5, students in groups 1-4 (certain special education and career and … Continued