Jill Arsenau, the chair of the Special Education Advisory Committee for Chesterfield County Public Schools, has two children attending the 5th grade in the same county school. Her 10-year-old son, Luke, pictured with sister Kate, 9, has moderate to severe autism. "What a joy it is to have them together," Arsenau says. "They are so
Following the incident, local and state leaders were left with questions as to how something like this could happen and what can be done to prevent a similar tragedy in the future.
Project ADAM (Automated Defibrillation in Adam's Memory) was founded in 1999 in memory of Wisconsin teenager Adam Lemel who died of sudden cardiac arrest when playing basketball.
At its Dec. 13 meeting, the Chesterfield County School Board unanimously approved a policy requiring educators to notify parents of sexually explicit content used in class assignments or lessons. The state-mandated policy 3035 creates guidelines and parental-notification processes regarding instructional materials with sexually explicit content as well as a mechanism to allow students for alternative
Virginia Repertory Theatre has been awarded a grant from Disney to bring Disney Musicals in Schools to Chesterfield County Public Schools. This is the first time the Disney program, which works to create sustainable theater programs in under-resourced elementary schools, has been connected to any school in Virginia. In partnership with Chesterfield County Public Schools,