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Albemarle County Supervisors ask questions, praise parts of schoolsâ budget
Albemarle County Supervisors ask questions, praise parts of schoolsâ budget By Max Marcilla | March 15, 2021 at 10:09 PM EDT - Updated March 15 at 11:58 PM
ALBEMARLE Co., Va. (WVIR) - On Monday, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors had its first chance to review and ask questions about the county schoolâs budget plan.
One of the first questions was about the new plan to replace school resource officers with safety coaches.
âWhat that group might look like, or how theyâre trained, can you just expand on that a little bit for me?â asked Supervisor Diantha McKeel.
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Feb 2, 2021, News Release
(ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Virginia) – Beginning today, members of the Virginia L. Murray school community will have the opportunity to choose whether they prefer to keep the existing name of their school or select a new name. A community advisory committee, appointed this past November, has been conducting a school naming review these past few months.
The review follows enactment of a School Board policy that requires all schools in the division named for an individual to conduct a review of their school name. The purpose is to ensure that school names are consistent with the school division’s values of excellence, young people, community, and respect.
Albemarle County charter school holds public renaming meeting
Albemarle County charter school holds public renaming meeting By Steve Rappaport | February 22, 2021 at 7:45 PM EST - Updated February 22 at 10:47 PM
ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - The list of possible names for Albemarle Countyâs newest charter school will get cut from 10 to three after a community public meeting Monday night.
Sixty percent of more than 600 replies to an online survey completed last week showed a preference to keep the name of Murray Community School.
This is the latest review of a county school named after an individual.
âWeâre a unique schoolâ said committee chair Stephanie Passman. âWe have a great mission of what we do within our school division and thereâs been a call for not having to explain our name, so maybe having something in the name that gives a sense of what it is that makes us unique and special in our school division.â
There’s a budget proposal on the table for Albemarle County schools, and despite the ongoing pandemic and economic hardships, the school division is optimistic.