After facing the possibility of closure in 2013, big changes are nearing completion at the historic Barrett Early Learning Center. Formerly known as the Janie Porter Barrett Day Nursery, Barrett is the longest-operating preschool in Virginia. It was founded in 1935 with federal funding from the Works Progress Administration. The program moved to its current […]
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WAHS senior to seek Samuel Miller District School Board seat
Albemarle County School Board candidate Julian Waters has a front-row seat to local education issues. He attends Western Albemarle High School. As a minor— Waters turns 18 in September — he also has to rely on friends and family to legally collect the 125 petition signatures that will put him on the general election ballot […]
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Students from sister city visit CATEC for lessons in culture, cars
Zak Taylor, a student in the Charlottesville Albemarle Technical Education Center’s automotive program, doesn’t speak any French. Adrien, a student in the motorcycle mechanic program at Lycée Henri Fertet near Besançon, France, is still adjusting to spoken English. Put the two side-by-side under the hood of a Chevrolet pickup, and the language barrier evaporates. Automotive […]
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At Tom Tom festival, McAuliffe signs law protecting youth entrepreneurs
Gov. Terry McAuliffe used the Paramount Theater stage Thursday to sign into a law a bill designed to protect the intellectual property rights of student entrepreneurs. McAuliffe signed the bill as the marquee moment of the Tom Tom Founders Festival’s Youth Summit, an all-day event for area high-schoolers. House Bill 1230 requires the boards of […]
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Former child soldier seeking peace through education speaks to students
Walking through a mass of middle- and high-school students dishing out high fives, shaking his short dreadlocks and rapping, “We can change the way people act … Let’s scream and shout that we want peace,” Emmanuel Jal looks like he was born with a mic in his hand. That could not be further from the […]
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County seeks funding plan for more K-5 seats
As students at Greer Elementary attend programs convened in hallways and Albemarle High School prepares to install an eight-classroom mobile unit to alleviate overcrowding, county and schools officials are scrambling to find money for permanent fixes. Albemarle supervisors voted recently to borrow $1 million to begin design work of an addition to Woodbrook Elementary, which […]
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Scarce capital funds spell capacity crunch for county schools
Despite a sunnier budget picture this year, Albemarle County Schools officials warned Monday that the division faces dire challenges over the next five years in the form of buildings that are out dated and over capacity. Inside five years, more than half of Albemarle public school students will be in overcrowded classrooms, said School Board […]
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Greer, AHS to get temporary relief for overcrowding
Head Start students at Greer Elementary will be bused to Broadus Wood next year and some Albemarle High School students will be housed in a modular unit, as the county school division fights to find extra capacity at overcrowded schools. County schools COO Dean Tistadt and Rosalyn Schmitt, assistant director of facilities planning, on […]
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Localities receive grant for 25 more pre-K seats
Charlottesville and Albemarle County will be able to place 25 additional 4-year-olds in preschool programs this month thanks to $180,000 in grants from the Virginia Preschool Initiative. The children will be placed either in a program run by the Jefferson Area Board for Aging or by Foundations Childhood Development Center, said Erika Viccellio, executive […]
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Design approved for Red Hill Elementary modernization
Renovations to Red Hill Elementary School got one step closer to reality Thursday as the Albemarle County School Board unanimously approved the project design. Planned renovations at the 163-student school would modernize and provide new furnishings for 13 classrooms and the library and add a new security entrance for visitors, county documents showed. The school […]
