The Fairfax County School Board is continuing to weigh what advanced
academics mean in the system, authorizing a scope of study this week
that it hopes will provide better information about how
During the 2011-12 school year, more than 430,000 soft drinks were
sold from 139 vending machines based in 28 school facilities, according
to the Fairfax County Public School system.
Patch has asked Fairfax County School Board members to share their goals and priorities for 2013.Member Ryan McElveen (At-large) chose to write an "Unofficial FCPS 2013 In-and-Out List.
Fairfax County school board members said Monday they weren't ready to
commit to an expansion of the school system's Advanced Academic Program
Centers until there was broader discussion about th
Last week, Mason District representative Sandy Evans and I had the
opportunity to sit down with high school student leaders from the Falls
Church, Annandale, Stuart and Thomas Jefferson communi
Saying they felt they had not yet had a "full, robust" discussion on the
makeup of a committee charged with reviewing the system's discipline
policies, Fairfax County School Board members delay
The number of Fairfax County students who speak a foreign language at
home is likely to surpass 50 percent of the school population for the
first time this month, reflecting a surge of immigran
Students at George C. Marshall High School will have access by next
year to a commodity not available to most of their peers in Fairfax
County: a made-from-scratch school lunch.
