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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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FXBG Advance
- May 7, 2024
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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, […]

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FXBG Advance
- April 16, 2024
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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 […]

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