by Adele UphausMANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT Stafford County Public Schools’ support staff—the bus drivers, cafeteria workers, maintenance workers, administrative assistants, bookkeepers, and other employees who aren’t teachers but who are essential to the day-to-day functioning of the school division—will receive long-awaited raises under the provisional budget adopted Tuesday by the School Board. These employees, who […]
by Adele UphausMANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT Fredericksburg City School Board members on Monday said they were not comfortable with the idea of approving a budget with a gap between revenues and expenditures of more than $4 million. The board unanimously voted against approving the operating budget proposed last week by superintendent Marci Catlett, with revenues […]
by Adele UphausMANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT The Stafford School Board approved its budget for the upcoming fiscal year two weeks ago, but met again on Tuesday to approve an amendment based on new state revenue projections. The budget of February 13 assumed $23.8 million in new money from the state of Virginia, based on Gov. […]
A bill that would bring pay for Virginia’s public-school teachers in line with or above the national average is advancing through the General Assembly. House Bill 187 and its companion, Senate Bill 104, were both reported out of committees this week and will be heard in the full chambers. The bills state that, “Public school […]