Irlyong Moon

Fairfax School Board Moves Budget Forward

The Fairfax County School Board approved an advertised $2.5 billion fiscal year 2014 budget Thursday that asks count

Board Names Members to Discipline Committee

The Fairfax County School Board unanimously appointed 40 members Thursday to a newly-created committee tasked with reviewing the system's student rights and responsibilities handbook, putting t

Fairfax School Board taps Moon as chair, Hynes as vice chair

The Fairfax County School Board chose new leaders Thursday, tappi

School Board considers cuts to budget, new retirement system rules

School Board members met Monday to re-evaluate spending and priorities under the 2012-13 school year budget.

Fairfax County School Board expands honors courses

Fairfax School Board races: Change vs. continuity

A day after Superintendent Jack D.

Fairfax Superintendent Jack D. Dale to retire

Fairfax County Superintendent Jack D. Dale, who has weathered a brutal recession and parent frustrations while steering one of the nation’s top-performing suburban school systems for seven years, said Thursday that he will retire when his contract ends in June 2013. Dissatisfaction among some parents and teachers has made Dale a lightning rod in a high-stakes school board campaign. Half of the 12 incumbents are not seeking reelection this fall.

Students back to school in N. Virginia; Fairfax begins full-day kindergarten

Kindergarten, once an easygoing half-day program, is now a full-day academic affair at every elementary school across Fairfax County.

Revamp of Fairfax school discipline rules continues

The Fairfax County school system would seek to cut in half the number of days that students are out of school awaiting decisions in their discipline cases, according to an expanded proposal to revamp policies that was presented to the School Board on Monday.