The Amherst County School Board at its August meeting nominated longtime member Priscilla Liggon for the Virginia School Boards Association Advocate for Education Award.
The Amherst County Board of Supervisors voted to approve $14 million in added funding for a renovation and addition to the county’s high school, bridging a funding gap that moves the project forward to construction soon.
A bill known as "Sage s Law" that failed in this year’s Virginia General Assembly and aims to ensure parental notification by public schools in cases where a student identifies as a gender other than his or her biological sex still has support among Republicans galvanized to retake the state Senate in the Nov. 7 election.
The Amherst County School Board during its meeting Thursday expressed hope more funding for the planned high school renovation will come through and implored county residents to let supervisors know the community has much “buy-in” for the project.
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