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Literacy instructor enters county school board race

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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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, […]