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 […]
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Unbalanced Albemarle schools budget OK’d for supervisors’ consideration
Albemarle County Public Schools expects its spending to grow by $7 million next year, leaving a $1.5 million funding gap. The budget request is a 4.2-percent increase over the current budget. The county School Board on Tuesday voted 6-0, with Jason Buyaki abstaining, to approve the $174,163,445 million funding request. The request now will go […]
