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- June 20, 2024
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City School Division Seeks Teacher Input into Phone-Free Policy

Forty middle and high school teachers gathered for a working lunch this week. Fredericksburg City’s middle and high school teachers who attended a working lunch on Tuesday agree that the division needs to become phone-free and that the best way to achieve this is by locking student devices in secured pouches during the school day. […]

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- June 2, 2024
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EDUCATION 540: Yes. Smartphones Need to Go …

… but bans won’t deliver the results people expect until adults realize their own complicity in the issue. Editor’s Note: Welcome to the first in an occasional series about the state of education in the 540. These essays feature those on the frontlines of education who also respect research, appreciate the complexities of policy, and […]

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- May 16, 2024
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James Monroe Chamber Orchestra Makes Music Come Alive for Themselves and the Community

Kayla Gullage, then a junior at James Monroe High School, was watching YouTube videos of chamber music groups one day and thought, why don’t we have one of these? Two years later, Gullage, a violinist, is heading off to the Rochester Institute of Technology on a performing arts scholarship, but the Chamber Orchestra she founded […]

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- March 27, 2024
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Celebrating Diversity and Empowering Students is the Theme of Latest FCPS Superintendent Community Roundtable

A panel of seniors at James Monroe High School spoke at the latest Fredericksburg City Public Schools Superintendent Community Roundtable on March 27, 2024.

by ADELE UPHAUSMANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT Of the seven James Monroe High School seniors who participated in a panel discussion at Wednesday’s Superintendent Community Roundtable, two work full-time in addition to attending school full-time. Two have been in the United States for five years or less and entered Fredericksburg City Public Schools speaking little or […]

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- March 4, 2024
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Annual Youth Climate Conference Gives Students an Opportunity to Educate and Learn From Each Other

Representatives from the organization GreenTeenz RVA at the fourth annual Youth Climate Conference at University of Mary Washington.

by Abby KnowlesINTERN Last weekend, the University of Mary Washington hosted the fourth annual Youth Climate Conference to educate the public on the current climate crisis and how the community of Fredericksburg can work together to help save our planet. The event included speakers and presentations by area youth, including high school students. Twenty-year-old Sena […]

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- March 1, 2024
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The News That Moved Us This Past Week

by Martin DavisEDITOR-IN-CHIEF The week just past saw a Black History Month poetry read-in at James Monroe High School, a new interview with Republican congressional candidate Terrice Todd, a MWHC op-ed, a brewing political controversy in King George, and a FOIA request gone bad in Spotsylvania. In addition, our best-read commentary looked at school board […]

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- February 1, 2024
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Donation from Anderson Propane Will Help James Monroe High School's Giving Tree Go Mobile

For the second year, city school is beneficiary of company’s charity golf tournament.

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