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 […]
Tag: schools
Posted inUncategorized
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 […]
Posted inUncategorized
City schools present balanced funding request of $81.6M
Charlottesville schools staff Thursday presented a balanced $81.6 million funding request to the city School Board. The request is a $2.9 million, or 3.7 percent, increase over the current $78.6 million budget. Per-pupil spending is expected to pass $17,000 next year, a budget presentation showed. The spending plan, which includes $731,000 for a 2 percent […]
Posted inUncategorized
Councilors mull school budget challenges as poverty, enrollment grow
Charlottesville schools are facing enrollment numbers that are growing faster than the division’s budget, increasing student poverty rates and the possibility of crowded classrooms, schools staff told the City Council on Thursday. A presentation by the city school division’s budget director, Kim Powell, showed that the division’s budget has grown by 16 percent since 2008, […]
Posted inUncategorized
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 […]
Posted inUncategorized
With $2M from city, schools expect balanced funding request
Charlottesville City Schools officials expect to present a balanced funding request for the next fiscal year thanks to a projected $2 million funding increase from the city. Schools Budget Director Kim Powell told the Charlottesville School Board at a Saturday budget work session at Walker Upper Elementary that she learned of the funding increase in […]
Posted inUncategorized
Poverty, enrollments growing in city schools
Poverty affects minority students in Charlottesville City Schools at more than three times the rate it affects white students, and poverty has grown concurrently with diversity in the division over the last 20 years. In 2015, more than 86 percent of black students in the division and more than 74 percent of other minority students […]
Posted inUncategorized
CIP request includes $2.4M to refurbish CHS track, field house
The Charlottesville City Schools’ proposed Capital Improvement Program submission for fiscal year 2017-18 includes more than $2.4 million for a new track and a new field house at Charlottesville High School. In a presentation to the city School Board on Thursday evening, Assistant Superintendent Ed Gillaspie presented a CIP request of $1,662,000 for a new, […]
Posted inUncategorized
Entrepreneurship-focused engineering classes in full swing at MHS
None of the students in Eric Bredder’s engineering class at Monticello High School seems to care that their workspace smells like gasoline. All of the students are ensconced in an individual project that they dreamed up and pulled together with little input. That’s just how Bredder wants it. “I always have projects of my own […]
Posted inUncategorized
Grade reconfiguration takes back seat as city enrollment grows
Enrollment in Charlottesville public schools is expected to increase by more than 120 students this school year, continuing a five-year growth trend that has officials — for the first time in a long while — thinking about expanding capacity in the 4,200-student division. From 1986 to 2011, city school enrollment dropped by 863 students. Since […]
