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The very latest Fauquier County schools and education news ... in brief
Friday, May. 11 | 8:05 AM
Southeastern’s school symposium stresses healthy choices
A cluster of blue, yellow and green balloons and a rainbow of handwritten signs dot the driveway of Southeastern Alternative School near Midland.
“When was the last time you exercised?” reads one poster.
“Did you skip breakfast?” asks another.
“What kind of healthy choice have you made today?” states a third.
Indeed. The placards served as an introduction and as guideposts to Southeastern’s third annual symposium, which this year asked the bigger question: “How do my choices and the choices of those around me affect my overall health?”
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Thursday, May. 10 | 11:25 AM
Don’t miss Highland School’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ this weekend
Highland Middle School students will present Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" at 7 p.m. Friday, May 11, and 3 p.m. Saturday, May 12 at The Rice Theater, Highland Center for the Arts, 597 Broadview Ave., Warrenton.
Admission is free.
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Tuesday, May. 8 | 4:49 PM
School board restricts child-care waiver policy
The child-care waiver rules to allow students to attend public schools outside of their zoned areas recently got tighter.
For years, the policy allowed parents of kindergarten through eighth graders to send their children to schools outside of their zone, provided they could demonstrate a “hardship” and enrollment capacity could accommodate such shifts. Effective in August, the change limits child-care waivers to kindergarten to sixth graders.
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Thursday, May. 3 | 12:42 PM
Parents pressure school board to save middle school sports
They refuse to give up the fight to save middle school competitive sports.
But barring a major flip-flop by one or more school board members, a renewed parents’ campaign to restore the program appears doomed.
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Thursday, May. 3 | 11:59 AM
No pay hike for Lewis in new fiscal year
Everybody on the school system payroll, except for Superintendent Jonathan Lewis, will get a raise in July.
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Tuesday, May. 1 | 6:35 AM
FHS library temporarily closes
The Fauquier High School library will be temporarily closing on May 1 so the contents can be packed and stored in preparation of the renovation. A mini library will be opened in Room 403 with a small selection of fiction books and computers for students’ research and printing needs. The new library is anticipated to be completed by the fall of next school year. – .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Monday, Apr. 30 | 1:15 PM
Miller elementary school wins Recycling Challenge
For the second straight year, Grace Miller Elementary School near Bealeton has won the county’s Recycling Challenge sponsored by Trex Co. Inc. Like last year, it got a park bench made of 100 percent recycled material for recycling 49,841 bags.
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Monday, Apr. 30 | 7:52 AM
Cedar Lee wins book battle
The Piedmont Regional Battle of the Books competition was held on Friday, April 20, 2012, at the Floyd T. Binns Middle School in Culpeper. The Cedar Lee team, The Epiclogues, came in first place out of the 12 middle school teams from Culpeper, Fauquier, Front Royal, Manassas, and Rappahannock counties. Competition consisted of three parts: a multiple choice written test, five rounds of teams answering book related questions, and ten quote questions.
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Friday, Apr. 27 | 9:22 AM
Search under way for permanent Brumfield principal
James G. Brumfield Elementary School probably will get a permanent principal in June.
Donna Jackson has served as acting principal for the past year, the fourth person to head the Warrenton school since it opened in 2000.
Jackson got the position last summer after Joshua Myers, who had been chosen to become the school’s new principal, was arrested in June on child pornography-related charges.
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Friday, Apr. 27 | 9:20 AM
Alternative calendar proposal means earlier return to school
Under an alternative school calendar proposal, Fauquier County students would return to the classroom three weeks before Labor Day.
They now crack the books two weeks before the holiday.
School system spokeswoman Karen Parkinson outlined the proposal during the school board meeting on Monday, noting that key instruction benefits call for students to take end-of-first-term exams and SOL tests before, rather than after, the winter break.
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Friday, Apr. 27 | 9:19 AM
Leukemia walk set for Saturday
Kettle Run High School’s National Honor Society chapter will hold a five-mile walk for the Sydney Davies Leukemia Foundation on Saturday, April 28.
The walk for Sydney Davies, an Auburn Middle School seventh-grader, will take place at the high school track from noon to 4 p.m. The cost is $15 per person and participants are encouraged to wear orange in support of leukemia awareness, said Kellsie Mullikin, a Kettle Run student who organized the event. For more information, contact Kellsie at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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Wednesday, Apr. 18 | 8:53 AM
School board meets Thursday on budget cuts
The Fauquier school board will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at Auburn Middle School on Riley Road near New Baltimore to further consider deep cuts to Superintendent Jonathan Lewis's $130.2 million, fiscal 2013 budget proposal.
The board last week discussed a list of potential reductions, recommended by Lewis, that included eliminating 21 teaching positions, freshman sports and middle school sports. Middle school sports would be replaced with an intramural sports program, which would be less expensive and result in greater student participation, according to the superintendent.
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Wednesday, Apr. 18 | 8:33 AM
Dementia program seeks to expand efforts
So far the program that has served about 90 area people with dementia and their families.
But Connections Project Manager Jane G. Dalton wants to double that effort in the next few months.
“It’s been a heartwarming experience for the home visitors as well as the families,” Dalton said of Connections, which provides free, in-home help to families in Fauquier, Culpeper, Madison, Orange and Rappahannock counties. “We would like to have twice as many families sign up.”
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Wednesday, Apr. 18 | 8:32 AM
Earthfest slated for Saturday
The 18th annual Earthfest, which will feature live bands and food and beverages for purchase, will be from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday at C.M. Crockett Park at 10066 Rogues Road near Midland.
Admission to the event commemorating Earth Day is $2 per person. Parking for out-of-county vehicles is $6. Lawn chairs and blankets are welcome. In case of inclement weather, the rain date will be on Sunday.
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Wednesday, Apr. 18 | 8:30 AM
Middle school soccer program meets fundraising goal
It took a recent bake sale and silent auction to push past the $2,700 fundraising goal for the spring middle school soccer season.
The March 31 event at the soccer fields at the Warrenton Aquatic Recreation Facility (WARF) generated about $1,000, said Denise Schefer, the mother of a Warrenton Middle School soccer player and key organizer in a parent-driven campaign to save the program this year.
“It was a successful day,” said Schefer, who lives near Warrenton. “We still have more (money) coming in, hopefully a couple hundred more.”
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Wednesday, Apr. 4 | 8:56 AM
Comstock gets Washington Post education award
P.B. Smith Elementary School Principal Patricia Comstock had no idea what to expect.
After dismissal one Monday in February, Assistant Principal Melissa Leischner, told Comstock to go to the library “to check something out.”
“I said ‘Sure, what’s going on? What’s wrong?’” recalled the 58-year-old principal, who succeeded Bronwyn White four years ago. “I thought ‘Was there a problem?’ and she said ‘Well, you’ll see when you get there.’”
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Tuesday, Mar. 27 | 3:07 PM
Supervisors to ‘flat-fund’ school system
As expected, the Fauquier supervisors agreed Tuesday afternoon to give the school system no new local money for fiscal 2013.
The supervisors expect to adopt the county budget, which includes the school system’s allocation, at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Warren Green Building at 10 Hotel St., Warrenton.
Superintendent Jonathan Lewis’s $130.2 million budget proposal called for $5.1 million in new local money. Without it, the school board must make deep cuts to his plan, which includes a 3 percent pay raise for most school workers. Such an increase would cost about $3 million.
The supervisors’ budget actions will leave $1.1 million in unspent revenue, which will be set aside for possible future use.
Center District Supervisor Chris Granger alone wanted to give that money to the school system to help cover its retirement and increased healthcare obligations.
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