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While revenue growth is projected to be a solid 4.3 percent in the coming year, expenses are rising at a far faster rate, Falls Church’s City Manager Wyatt Shields reported to a joint work session of the F.C. City Council and School Board Monday night at City Hall. Greater expenses will be comin . ....
Thousands of high school students from throughout Virginia staged walkouts either during or following their classes Tuesday to protest the proposed changes to official state policy to limit schools’ abilities to support transgender and other gender non-conforming students. Students from over 90 . ....
Following the contested termination of a King William County, Virginia, teacher, dozens of groups, including members of Northern Virginia school boards, have come together to show their support for the decision to fire the educator who refused to say a student’s preferred pronoun. ....
Community Falls Church Committee Proposes Renaming Thomas Jefferson Elementary After Woman Who Wanted Government “Colonies” to “Permanently Segregate” “Degenerates” Community Falls Church Committee Proposes Renaming Thomas Jefferson Elementary After Woman Who Wanted Government “Colonies” to “Permanently Segregate” “Degenerates” Last December, the School Board in Falls Church, Virginia a wealthy D.C. suburb voted to rename George Mason High School and Thomas Jefferson Elementary due to the fact that these Founding Fathers were slaveholders. The Board tasked two committees, one per school, with recommending five new names for each school. The committee reports are in, and the first recommendation to replace Thomas Jefferson Elementary is “Mattie Gundry Elementary School.” The report describes Miss Gundry as “a local historical icon of Falls Church City” who was “ahead of her time by advocating for the rights o ....
The vote comes despite an October community survey that found 56% opposition to changing the school names. “After deep and careful consideration of everything I’ve heard and read, I conclude that renaming both schools is in the best interest of our students and a necessary part of our equity work,” Greg Anderson, chair of the Falls Church School Board, said Tuesday. The name change is a school board initiative that began in the summer at the height of social unrest and included a survey of the Falls Church community taken in October. The survey revealed that 56% of the community overall asked that the names stay on the schools, including 61% of the parents of Thomas Jefferson Elementary students and 57% of George Mason High parents. ....