Smart phones, book bans, and new leadership bring big changes for students and teachers. Youngkin’s new accreditation standards will ramp up assault on public education. Come next week, almost 70,000 children and young adults will make their way back to school in Caroline, Fredericksburg, King George, Spotsylvania, and Stafford. They’ll be walking into a school […]
Phone bans and bringing Fredericksburg into the CIP program mean significant changes for ever child in the school system. An Interview with Superintendent Marci Catlett Dr. Marci Catlett isn’t setting a new course for 2024-2025; rather, she’s building upon and adding to the building blocks she’s been putting in place since becoming superintendent. “We’re going […]
About 65 are joining the division this year. Fredericksburg City Public Schools welcomed 65 new teachers this week, and the Advance caught up with some of them at Carl’s Ice Cream on Monday afternoon. Karish Johnson will be joining the team at Walker-Grant Middle School as a counselor. She said she’s taught for years in […]
“Shovel Ready Virginia” was established this month by the Virginia Business Roundtable for Early Education. Virginia has assembled a task force of business leaders who will spend the rest of 2024 working to increase the Commonwealth’s supply of high-quality early childhood care and education services. Leaders announced the launch of Shovel Ready Virginia—which has the […]
County and school division staff hope new policy will prevent the kind of tension that occurred between supervisors and the School Board this budget season. Stafford County school division and government staff hope a new policy for developing the county’s capital improvement plan will prevent the process from becoming “disjointed.” That was the word Meg […]
72% of respondents think devices should be banned during the school day. The results of a survey distributed to the Caroline County school community indicate support for restricting student cell phone use during the instructional day. Division staff presented a first read of a new policy prohibiting student use of personal communication devices at last […]
New policy and regulation prohibit student use of personal communication devices during the instructional day. The Fredericksburg School Board on Monday unanimously approved a new policy prohibiting the use of “personal communication devices” by students in school buildings during the school day. “The use of PCDs on school grounds must be appropriately regulated to protect […]
Board is seeking a replacement for Thomas Taylor, who is leaving the division to lead Montgomery County schools. The Stafford School Board on Tuesday approved a $40,000 contract with the firm JG Consulting to lead the search for a new division leader. “Selection of the best Superintendent candidate for their school division is the single […]
Clint Mitchell steps into the job August 1. Incoming Spotsylvania school division superintendent Clint Mitchell will be paid $245,000 per year, according to his contract with the School Board, which went into effect June 24. The salary is the same as that made by his predecessor, Mark Taylor, who was fired in March. Mitchell’s contract […]
Mitchell comes from Colonial Beach Public Schools, where he has served as superintendent since January 2022. Email Adele Clint Mitchell collected 55 pages of typed, single-spaced notes during the process of getting to know the Colonial Beach community early in his tenure as superintendent there. “I wanted to learn and see what people’s hopes and […]
