To the editor: This letter is in response to the commentary of Sept. 9, 2021, written by Alexandria School Board Chair Meagan Alderton, entitled "Committed to
To the editor:
I am writing this letter in response to the one written by Liz Fuller in the July 1 Alexandria Times, “An open letter to the School Board.” In it, she comments on the recent obsession with race by the School Board of Alexandria City Public Schools. She questions this tactic.
Dr. Gregory Hutchings, Ed.D, who has been superintendent for some three years now, and Meagan Alderton, who was elected to the School Board in 2018 and is now chair, repeatedly and deliberately accuse ACPS of “systemic racism.”
As Fuller points out in her letter, this action is divisive. But I would like to add that it is also, clearly, derogatory, offensive and contemptuous of the men, women and children of ACPS – from the School Board and superintendent’s office, through the administrators, faculty and staff, to the wonderful majority-minority students – and beyond, to the people of Alexandria.
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Alexandria City Public Schools will offer a choice of 100 percent in-person or virtual education in the 2021-2022 school year. (Emily Leayman/Patch)
ALEXANDRIA, VA Families will have the choice to opt into an optional summer learning program and indicate their preference for the 2021-2022 school year at Alexandria City Public Schools.
A learning choice form will be released to families on Tuesday. Families may choose to enroll in the Summer Learning for All and will choose either five days of in-person learning or five days of in-person virtual learning per week for the fall. Families must complete the survey between May 11 and 24.
February 3, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted education in so many ways, forcing most school districts in Northern Virginia to adopt a
virtual format to deliver instruction. But some officials across the region have expressed concern over how the switch to online learning could increase learning challenges for underprivileged students in the region.
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In response to this challenging time, a group of longtime area educators got together last summer to form EduTutorVA, a new education nonprofit working to connect volunteer tutors with local K – 12 students at risk of falling behind in their classes during this pandemic.
This new organization addresses the compelling need faced by our most vulnerable students due to COVID-19 school closures. Students who were already behind when schools closed in March 2020 faced a new set of challenges, including little or no access to high-speed internet and no device other than a smartphone. This technology hurdle was compounde
Former Alexandria high school student pleads guilty to young couple s murder
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Former TC Williams student pleads guilty to couple’s murder
A former T.C. Williams High School football player pleaded guilty to the murders of a young couple earlier this year.
HALIFAX COUNTY, Va. (FOX 5 DC) - A former T.C. Williams High School football player pleaded guilty Thursday to the murders of a couple found dead near the North Carolina border in rural Virginia earlier this year.
Virginia State Police say the bodies of Ayanna Griffin, 19, and Joel Bianda, 21, were discovered near a 2009 Silver Nissan Maxima following a car crash along Route 58 near Melon Road in Halifax County at around 2:51 a.m. on February 8, 2020.