The Lynchburg City School Board voted to submit a preliminary funding request to city council that comes in at $5 million above Superintendent Crystal Edwards’ initial recommended request of $42.5 million.
Two months after the Lynchburg City School Board voted not to accept a grant from an LGBTQ-focused nonprofit, private donors have raised a portion of the total $10,000 the E.C. Glass High School Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) club would have received.
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The Lynchburg City School Board voted Tuesday to close Sandusky Elementary School and close or convert T.C. Miller Elementary School, part of the third of four facilities master plans proposed by consultant MGT of America to address declining enrollment and aging school buildings.
With new leadership taking over the Lynchburg City School Board earlier this month, recently-appointed School Board Chair Atul Gupta is creating an extra layer of community involvement in the division by adding parents to its various governance committees for the first time in division history, he says.