News Stories Tagged "elementary schools"

Va. Test Scores Climb, But More Schools Miss Targets

Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009

More Virginia schools fell short of academic benchmarks in the past school year even though passing rates on state reading and math tests continued to climb, according to results made public Thursday morning. Read story »

Shopping For School A Struggle

Supplies Needed Across the Region

Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009

The back-to-school season is placing some area social service agencies closer than ever to the clients they serve: Both have an increased need for supplies. Read story »

Back to the Boundary Drawing Board

Both School Plans Rejected at Meeting

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

A controversy over how to redraw high school attendance boundaries in central Loudoun County is back in the hands of the school district's planning staff and probably won't be resolved until the fall. Read story and 11 comments »

Arcola Elementary Chorus Takes the Stage

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Arcola represents first Loudoun County Elementary school to perform at the annual Cherry Blossom Festival. Read story »

Loudoun Ranks High in Educational Excellence

Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009

Governor Timothy Kaine announced today that 162 Virginia public schools have earned the 2009 Governor’s Award for Educational Excellence. With 17 public schools on the list, Loudoun County has the second highest number of awarded schools in the state, second only to Fairfax County with 31 schools. Read story »

Homework Club Creates 'Sense of Community'

Friday, Dec. 26, 2008

When Jerry Hill retired as principal of Ball's Bluff Elementary School in June, he didn't end his involvement with his students — he just changed his hours. Read story and 1 comment »

PHOTO GALLERY: Liberty Elementary Opens Doors for First Time

Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008

Loudoun County students went back to school today, and three schools opened their doors for the first time. Read story and 1 comment »

Lessons Only Experience Can Teach

Loudoun Schools Pair Mentors With First-Year Instructors

Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008

Tuesday is the day Leah Schumaker says she has been waiting for since she was a little girl. It's the day the 23-year-old will start the third grade, this time from the other side of the desk, as an elementary school teacher. Read story »

Seventh-Grader Spells His Way to National Bee

Friday, March 7, 2008

As Santos DeBarros walked off the stage Thursday night at the Loudoun County Spelling Bee, something happened for the first time in his life. Somebody asked for his autograph. Read story and 3 comments »

School Board Seeks Say in Book Policy

Review Panel Would Have the Last Word

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Loudoun County School Board members would be notified of a superintendent’s decision to restrict student access to a book and would have the option of reviewing the case, under a proposed change that drew support Tuesday night from a board committee. Read story »

Video Setup Tears Down Class Walls

Interactive Lessons Available from Afar

Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008

Two dozen fifth-graders watched intently as a musical trio explained the basics of jazz on a big screen at Potowmack Elementary School this week. Chins in hands, they appeared engaged in an activity many fifth-graders are good at: watching television. Read story and 1 comment »

'Tango' May Return; Hatrick Says He Overstepped

Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008

A controversial children’s book about two male penguins that was removed from general circulation at Loudoun County public elementary schools may be put back on the shelves in many school libraries, Superintendent Edgar B. Hatrick III said Tuesday night. Read story and 3 comments »

'Tango' Touches Off Library Dispute

Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008

A children’s book about two male penguins that hatch and parent a chick was pulled from library shelves in Loudoun County elementary schools this month after a parent complained that it promoted a gay agenda. Read story »

Through the Eyes of a First-Grader

Elementary School Teacher Reaches Out to Diverse Classroom

Monday, Feb. 11, 2008

It's a few minutes past 7 a.m. and Ceci Albecker is in her Guilford Elementary School classroom in Sterling. She's at her desk going over her day's game plan, a list that reminds her just where she and her 18 first-graders left off when yesterday's school day ended -- and what's on tap for today. Read story »

County to Require Seat Belts on New School Buses

Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008

From now on, every school bus that Loudoun County buys will be equipped with a safety feature missing from most school vehicles in the Washington area: seat belts. Read story and 5 comments »

Students Take Quicker Steps to Literacy

Program Targets Achievement Gaps

Sunday, Dec. 23, 2007

Two dozen first-graders in a Leesburg classroom recently sorted through laminated paper squares on their desks, arranging red squares printed with consonants and blue ones stamped with vowels until they spelled a word: T-H-E-R-E. Read story »

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