This fall, the Social, Emotional and Academic Development program will begin its three-year pilot in Albemarle County’s four urban-ring elementary schools — Agnor-Hurt, Cale, Greer and Woodbrook — as part of the school division’s new Equity and Access Initiative. The goal of the SEAD project is to help students reach their full potential and have […]
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County schools to pay $20k to reimburse families for items lost in bus fire
Albemarle County Public Schools will pay nearly $20,000 to reimburse 23 Monticello High School students, three coaches and a bus driver for personal items lost in a Jan. 13 school bus fire on Interstate 64. The county School Board approved the action on a 7-0 vote Thursday night as part of the board’s larger consent […]
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Albemarle division studying salaries as teachers feel pinch
If not for the generosity of his mother-in-law, Sal Giordano and his family would not be able to go on their annual beach vacation. Without the familial support, a vacation rental and travel for Giordano and his wife and two children is financially out of reach. Personal savings and savings for his children’s college education […]
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Construction demand could increase costs of bond referendum projects
The first four Albemarle County Public Schools projects to be paid for using a $35 million bond referendum will begin to go to bid next month, and construction will begin this summer, schools staff told the Albemarle County School Board on Thursday night. Staff members also warned the board that increasing construction in the county […]
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County schools to address hourly-wage salary compression, see increase in local revenue
Albemarle County schools staff Tuesday presented a plan to raise the minimum hourly rate for division classified staff from $9.75 to $10 an hour to alleviate salary compression. The move would also bring employees with at least eight years’ experience into the middle salary range of Albemarle’s competitive market – a list of similar localities […]
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County schools increase spending by $8M, face $691k revenue gap
Albemarle County schools Superintendent Pam Moran on Thursday presented a $180.8 million funding request for the fiscal year beginning July 1, an $8.1 million, or 4.7 percent, increase over this year’s $172.7 million budget. The proposed spending plan faces a $691,000 revenue gap, which is less than half of the $1.5 million deficit the schools […]
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Despite funding challenges, Albemarle School Board prioritizes teacher pay
Since 2011, the Albemarle County Public Schools have spent $10.8 million on raises for teachers and school staff. The division did not give teachers raises in the school years beginning in 2009 and 2010, documents showed, but spent $6.8 million on raises between 2007 and 2009. Documents presented to the School Board on Thursday showed that […]
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County School Board moves Woodbrook expansion, classroom modernization forward
Two key pieces of the $35 million bond referendum for school projects that Albemarle County voters approved last month moved forward Thursday night. The board voted 7-0 to allow RRMM Architects to create detailed drawings and documents that will be provided as part of the request for proposals for the expansion. The board also voted […]
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Albemarle schools budget to address poverty, achievement gaps
Albemarle County Public Schools will try to focus more resources next year on the division’s neediest students, school officials said. The division has grown overall over the last several years, but its most dramatic growth has been in immigrant and refugee students, non-English-proficient students and those who qualify for the free and reduced-price lunch program, […]
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Public education officials gather to discuss future
The leaders of each of the area’s biggest public education institutions have varied stories about what drew them to careers in education, but all agree that schools and universities must evolve to keep up with rapidly evolving technology. University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan, Piedmont Virginia Community College President Frank Friedman, Charlottesville City Schools Superintendent […]
