Mixed-Level Classes Promote Teamwork, Ease Transition

Monday, Oct. 15, 2007

Inez Lemmert, a sixth-grade teacher, motioned toward a tall boy hunched over a thick novel. He was among her students with learning disabilities. But in recent weeks, he had asked for honors-level work and had thrived on the challenge.Read story »

County Lags In Referrals For Special Education

Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007

The percentage of Loudoun County students referred for special education services is below the average for the state and neighboring counties, according to a report presented to the School Board by a special education advisory committee Tuesday night. Read story »

County Refines Rapid School Creation to a Science

Speed Is a Necessity As Population Swells

Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007

To make a Loudoun County elementary school, start with 1,700 cubic yards of concrete for the foundation. Combine 137,000 cinder blocks and 129,000 bricks to make the outside walls, and set aside about 3,500 square yards of asphalt for the parking lot. Read story and 1 comment »

School Board Proposes Changes to 'No Child'

Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007

The Loudoun County School Board Tuesday night approved a wish list of changes to the No Child Left Behind act for Congress to consider when it reauthorizes the law this fall. Read story »

At Catoctin, Parents of 30 Opt for Transfers

‘No Child’ Targets Were Missed Again

Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007

The parents of more than 30 students at Catoctin Elementary School in Leesburg opted last week to transfer their children out of the school after it failed to meet testing benchmarks for the second year in a row, school officials said. Read story »

4 Schools Opening in Race to Keep Pace With Growth

Thursday, Aug. 30, 2007

After opening no new schools last year, the Loudoun County public school system is playing catch-up by opening three elementary schools and a middle school this year to accommodate a projected enrollment of more than 53,000 students. Read story »

Elementary School Faces 'No Child' Sanction

Sunday, Aug. 26, 2007

A Loudoun County elementary school must offer parents the option of sending their children elsewhere because it failed to meet test score targets for the second year in a row — the first time a Loudoun school has faced that federally mandated sanction. Read story »

N.Va., Loudoun Suffer Testing Setbacks

School Systems Blame U.S. Rule For Missed Goals

Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007

The Fairfax County school system for the first time failed to meet academic goals under the No Child Left Behind Act, largely because many students with limited English skills struggled on reading tests that were given in response to a federal order, according to school officials and scores released yesterday. Read story »

Looking to the Future With Room to Grow

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Every morning this week, trucks full of desks, chairs and cabinets have pulled up outside Stone Hill Middle School in Ashburn. By opening day, the furniture will adorn the nearly 50 classrooms and 12 science labs in Loudoun County's newest and largest middle school. Read story »

Words of Understanding and Hope

Ashburn 5th-Graders Channel Compassion for Darfur Into Poetry Collection

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

If a war could be stopped with flights of compassion, 10-year-olds in Darfur might sleep a little easier tonight. Read story »

Words of Understanding and Hope

Ashburn 5th-Graders Channel Compassion for Darfur Into Poetry Collection

Sunday, June 3, 2007

If a war could be stopped with flights of compassion, 10-year-olds in Darfur might sleep a little easier tonight. Read story »

Intercoms May Be Installed To Curtail Access to Schools

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Loudoun County school officials hope to install a video intercom system in each of the district's 68 public schools so visitors would have to be buzzed in, a proposal developed last fall after shootings at an Amish school in Pennsylvania. Read story »

Utilities Pact Advances Plans for Elementary School

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Loudoun County school administrators have reached a utilities agreement with the Town of Hamilton that would allow for the opening of Kenneth W. Culbert Elementary School near the town in the fall of 2008. Read story »

Tempting Teachers To County Classrooms

New GMU Program To Boost Recruiting

Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007

At a recent job fair at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education, more than 200 teacher recruiters -- some from as far as Atlanta and Denver -- competed for the attention of about 330 graduates clutching freshly printed resumes. Read story »