The Pittsylvania County School Board on Monday night passed its 2024-25 fiscal year budget of $116 million in a quick 20-minute meeting where no members of the public spoke during the public hearing session.
Purple is the color of the Minnesota Vikings, a football team Matt Scarce, a beloved physical education teacher at the school, adored. Scarce died this week. He was 37.
Now in its second year, the Pittsylvania County STEM Academy is designed for ninth and 10th graders to give them a taste of career fields with two tracks: advanced manufacturing and health and medical sciences.