As 2013 approaches, Patch has asked Fairfax County School Board members to share their goals and priorities for 2013. Board member Sandy Evans (Mason) shares h
Montgomery County’s schools chief said Tuesday that he will form a
work group to study later start times at public high schools, a move
that comes two months after
Fairfax County school officials on Monday introduced a proposal to
significantly expand programs for gifted students, a plan that already
has met stiff opposition from parents and teachers.
As Fairfax County Public Schools looks to add more Advanced Academic
Program Centers and address overcrowding at some that already exist, it
is reaching out to parents and community membe
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
The sky is pitch-black at a school-bus stop in Olney, and it might as
well be midnight for 15-year-old Joe Palmer. His eyes are open, but his
brain feels stalled.
Fairfax County School Board members on Thursday deferred an
application to open the first public charter school in Northern
Virginia, praising the aims of the school’s advocates but objecting t
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
