FEATURED
FXBG Advance
- July 22, 2024
56 views 6 min

Fredericksburg City School Division Welcomes New Teachers

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 […]

386 POSTS
Managing Editor and Correspondent ...
FEATURED
FXBG Advance
- June 17, 2024
80 views 48 sec

Clay Jones: QR Code This

Cellphone bans? Sure thing! See someone violating the policy? Ah, that get’s a little trickier. Clay is here to sort it all out. Editor’s Note: Smart phone bans are all the rage right now, with Fredericksburg, Caroline, and King George passing bans in recent weeks. But as we noted recently, bans alone aren’t the magic […]

386 POSTS
Managing Editor and Correspondent ...
FEATURED
FXBG Advance
- June 11, 2024
75 views 5 min

Unadjusted SOL Scores in Fredericksburg Show Ups and Downs

Division shared information about preliminary results on Monday. City students’ unadjusted SOL test scores from this spring show some ups and some downs over last year, according to information shared with the School Board on Monday. The unadjusted scores represent the scores from all tests taken in April and May of this year, minus failing […]

386 POSTS
Managing Editor and Correspondent ...
FEATURED
FXBG Advance
- June 9, 2024
72 views 2 min

Fredericksburg School Board – June 10 Meeting Details

An overview of the topics to be discussed at the upcoming Board meeting. Monday’s Fredericksburg City Public School Board meeting includes a list of nine items on the Superintendent’s Report/consent agenda, two action items, seven information items, and one old business matter. Information Items Action Items Meeting Items Submit a Letter to the Editor Local […]

417 POSTS
by Martin Davis EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ...
FEATURED
FXBG Advance
- June 9, 2024
89 views 9 min

COMMENTARY: Government Limits, Parents’ Responsibilities

School districts are set to act on smartphone bans. That’s good. But failing to define what problem they hope to address means smartphone bans could fail before they’re ever implemented. Tonight, Fredericksburg City Schools looks to become another in the line of divisions regionally and across the nation to join the smartphone-ban movement. Huzzah! Now […]

417 POSTS
by Martin Davis EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ...
FEATURED
FXBG Advance
- May 17, 2024
77 views 2 min

Pizza Gets Hugh Mercer Students Excited About Recycling

The Fredericksburg Clean and Green Commission and R-Board sponsored a paper recycling contest at the school this month. When the kindergarteners in Ashley Rogers’ class at Hugh Mercer Elementary School learned that they could win a pizza party for recycling the most paper, they knew they were up to the challenge. “They were like, ‘Oh, […]

386 POSTS
Managing Editor and Correspondent ...
FEATURED
FXBG Advance
- May 7, 2024
98 views 5 min

Beginning to Plan for Three Elementary Schools in Fredericksburg

When the new middle school opens next year, the building that now houses Walker-Grant Middle School will be converted into a third elementary school. As work continues on Fredericksburg’s new middle school, division administrators are beginning to plan for the conversion of the current middle school into a third elementary school. The new $77 million, […]

386 POSTS
Managing Editor and Correspondent ...
FEATURED
FXBG Advance
- May 1, 2024
78 views 10 min

Not Just Your Average School Lunch Program

Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash

Fredericksburg is turning a negative – a high percentage of students who qualify for free- and reduced-price lunch – to a positive; creative, healthy foods for students. The kids at James Monroe High School in Fredericksburg, Viginia, love to complain about the cafeteria food.  “It’s soggy and gross,” says one.  “It’s just nasty,” another chimes […]

386 POSTS
Managing Editor and Correspondent ...
FEATURED
FXBG Advance
- April 18, 2024
100 views 4 min

Lunch with the Boys in Bowties

Hugh Mercer Elementary School's Boys and Bowties club at lunch in downtown Fredericksburg this week.

Instead of lunch in the cafeteria on Wednesday, the members of Hugh Mercer Elementary’s Boys and Bowties after-school club enjoyed herbal tea-infused water, matar paneer, and a classic wedge salad at Katora Coffee in downtown Fredericksburg. “This is amazing,” said Lincoln Pretz, cutting into a slice of iceberg lettuce drizzled with balsamic reduction. Prior to […]

386 POSTS
Managing Editor and Correspondent ...
FEATURED
FXBG Advance
- April 16, 2024
100 views 4 min

City Students Get to Know the Rappahannock River

6th grade students at Walker-Grant Middle School measure the turbidity of the Rappahannock River during an field trip on April 16, 2024. Photo by Adele Uphaus.

Turbidity was the word of the day for 6th grade students at Walker-Grant Middle School. It’s a measure of the relative clarity of a liquid, and this week, the students were determining the turbidity levels of the Rappahannock River. Dirt and soil are the number one pollutants of our local river, Jennifer Gron, field trip […]

386 POSTS
Managing Editor and Correspondent ...