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FXBG Advance
- May 3, 2024
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Attorneys Looking for Reasons to Fire Taylor? No.

Lisa Phelps and April Gillespie asserted last week, without evidence, that School Board attorneys are looking for reasons to fire Mark Taylor. Spotsylvania School Board member April Gillespie alleged at a work session last week that the school division’s attorneys are still looking for cause for terminating former superintendent Mark Taylor’s contract. In response to […]

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FXBG Advance
- April 15, 2024
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After 25 Years, Regional Governor’s School Gets a New Fiscal Agent

by Adele UphausMANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT Spotsylvania County Public Schools is no longer the fiscal agent for the Commonwealth Governor’s School, a role it has performed since the program’s inception more than 25 years ago. The CGS governing board, which is made up of one School Board representative from each of the participating school divisions—Spotsylvania, […]

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FXBG Advance
- March 20, 2024
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BREAKING NEWS: Spotsy Superintendent Mark Taylor Terminated ‘With Cause’

by Adele UphausMANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT The Spotsylvania School Board has terminated “with cause” its contract with Mark Taylor, effective March 19, 2024. The announcement was sent to the school community in an email late Wednesday afternoon. Taylor has waived the School Board’s offer of a hearing, which the Board voted last week to extend […]

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FXBG Advance
- February 29, 2024
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Lisa Phelps, Mark Taylor Failed to Fully Comply with FOIA Request

by Adele UphausMANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT Newly available text messages reveal the degree to which at least one Spotsylvania School Board member and senior school division leadership were involved in events that led up to and followed the volatile December meeting of the Riverbend High School swim team that resulted in the principal being placed […]

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