Mary McIntyre, a literacy specialist at Agnor-Hurt Elementary, has submitted the paperwork declaring her candidacy for the Rio District seat on the Albemarle County School Board. If elected, McIntyre said she would resign from her position at Agnor-Hurt before joining the board, as required by Virginia law. “I feel like serving on the School Board […]
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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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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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County schools’ revenues $800,000 over expenditures in FY15-16
Albemarle County Public Schools finished its last school year with $800,000 more than it spent, a Thursday preliminary financial report on fiscal year 2015-16 showed. As with all local government operations that seek to avoid an annual financial deficit, the school division expects to have some surplus funds each year. The handling of the balance […]
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Albemarle schools prepare to cover state share of staff raises
County schools officials said Wednesday that Albemarle likely will have to cover nearly $400,000 for teacher raises it originally had budgeted to come from state coffers. The division will uphold a 2 percent average pay increase for schools staff with money the county School Board set aside last year, said division COO Dean Tistadt. State […]
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Albemarle should use bond referendum to build new high school
When our government class began our Citizen Action Project, our entire group was unaware of the issue of overcrowding in Albemarle County Public Schools. On Feb. 29, we sat in on an Albemarle County School Board meeting in hopes of finding a relevant issue to focus on for our public policy project. Attending Monticello High […]
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School Board finalizes bond referendum wish list
The Albemarle School Board on Thursday voted 6-0 to approve a letter to the county Board of Supervisors outlining $35.5 million in projects slated for a potential November bond referendum. Board member Jason Buyaki did not attend the meeting. The list of projects includes a $15 million addition to Woodbrook Elementary and $500,000 to study […]
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Proposed Albemarle development to offer sites for two new schools
Albemarle County soon could gain two school sites as part of a land rezoning to accommodate a 300-acre development at the corner of U.S. 29 and Polo Grounds Road. Riverbend Development has offered a seven-acre elementary school site within the proposed 800- to 1,500-unit Brookhill development, and a 61-acre high school site on the other […]
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City adds $200K for CHS track, but project still short
Charlottesville City Council last week added $200,000 to the city’s proposed capital improvement plan for the Charlottesville High School track and field house. The money is less than a third of what the division had originally requested for the projects, but it should be enough to complete construction documents and permitting, said Mike Mollica, city […]
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School board approves $35.5M capital project list for bond referendum
The Albemarle County school division hopes to fund $35.5 million worth of capital projects in 2017-18 and 2018-19 through a proposed bond referendum this fall. The Albemarle School Board on Thursday voted, 6-0, to approve a preliminary list of projects to inform the Board of Supervisors’ April 13 decision on the referendum. Board member Jason […]
