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High schools will hold outdoor graduation ceremonies
Graduation yard signs are popping up. Fairfax County Public Schools will hold in-person outdoor graduation ceremonies in May and June for the Class of 2021. Social distancing rules will apply. More details will be announced later.
Three options presented for changing school boundaries in Justice HS pyramid
Belvedere Elementary School is one of several schools that would be affected by a new boundary map. Fairfax County Public Schools hopes to implement new boundaries affecting elementary schools in the Justice High School pyramid by fall 2021. The driving force behind these changes is the need to reduce severe overcrowding at Glen Forest Elementary … Continued
Principal selection process underway for Justice HS
Justice High School The principal selection process is underway for Justice High School. Region 2 Assistant Superintendent Fabio Zuluaga invites parents and staff to apply to serve on the interview panel to screen candidates. If you’re interested, fill out this form. Current Principal Maria Eck is leaving at the end of the school year. The … Continued
Parents invited to school boundary study meetings
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
More schools are offering free meal kits once a week
FCPS has been providing free meals for pickup since the pandemic took hold. [FCPS] Now that Fairfax County schools have opened for four days of learning a week, many FCPS Grab & Go food distribution sites have switched from daily food pickup to weekly distribution of meal kits. The kits contain seven days of breakfast, … Continued
FCPS: School should be back to normal next fall
Weyanoke Elementary School students end the day with an active learning exercise. [FCPS] For the start of the 2021-22 school year, Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Brabrand said he is planning for “as near normal a fall as possible.” During a virtual town hall on April 7, Brabrand offered more details on expanding in-school … Continued
Fairfax County schools expand in-person learning
Annandale High School staff welcome students back to class. Fairfax County Public Schools is expanding access to in-person learning to four days a week for certain preK-12 students during April. This is being done in accordance with the updated CDC guidelines issued March 13 that allow schools to reduce the social distancing requirement from six … Continued
School board rejects proposal to close school for four more religious holidays
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 schools to return to five days a week of in-person learning in the fall
Fairfax County Public Schools will return to five days a week of in-person learning this fall, Superintendent Scott Brabrand told the school board March 16. By March 19, more than 109,000 students will have returned for in-person learning, as in-school COVID-19 transmission rates low.
Community members air concerns about plans to use Justice Park as a parking lot for Justice HS
Justice High School PE students use the basketball court at Justice Park. Fairfax County Public School and Park Authority officials have yet to explain to residents the process involved in their plans to pave a section of Justice Park to create a parking lot for Justice High School in Seven Corners. Community members expressed their … Continued
School board to consider elementary school boundary changes
A boundary adjustment could relieve overcrowding at Glen Forest Elementary School in Bailey’s Crossroads. Families in the Justice High School pyramid are invited to a series of meetings March 9 and 10 to discuss a proposal for adjusting elementary school attendance areas. Many of the elementary schools that feed into Justice have experienced an increase … Continued
New principal named for Glen Forest Elementary School
Herndon-Wilson Diane (Dee Dee) Herndon-Wilson has been named the new principal at Glen Forest Elementary School in Bailey’s Crossroads. Herndon-Wilson is currently serving as the assistant principal of Lowes Island Elementary School in Loudoun County. Before that, she was an administrative intern at that school and at Frederick Douglass Elementary School in Loudoun County.
Glasgow Middle School gets a new principal
Powell [ACPS] Victor Powell has been hired as the new principal of Glasgow Middle School. He will take over from Katie Madigan, who has been serving as acting principal. Powell has been the principal of Maury Elementary School in the City of Alexandria for the past four years. Before that, Powell had been an assistant … Continued
Carbon monoxide leak shuts down Poe Middle School
About 30 students were evacuated from Poe Middle School in Annandale this morning due to a carbon monoxide leak, the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department reported on Twitter. Students were sheltered in a warm location on the school’s property while they waited for their parents to pick them up. There were no injuries.
FCPS offers more details on the return to in-person learning
School staff prepare for the return to school. [Photos from an FCPS video] Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Brabrand offered more details on the return-to-school process at a town hall on Feb. 10. Groups of students will return to school buildings on a phased-in schedule, starting with certain special education and career and technical … Continued