News Stories Tagged "Loudoun County Public Schools"

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Passing Rates Rise on Virginia School Tests

Friday, Aug. 14, 2009

Roughly nine of every 10 public school students in Northern Virginia passed the state’s reading and math tests in the spring, with achievement gaps narrowing and passing rates edging upward or holding steady across the region. Read story »

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 »

Assistant Principal to Be Repaid for Legal Fees

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The Loudoun County School Board decided last night to pay in full the legal fees for an assistant high school principal who had faced charges related to child pornography that were dismissed in March. Read story and 41 comments »

National Study Lauds Loudoun's Graduation Rate

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Loudoun County's high school graduation rate remains one of the highest in the Washington region and shows that the school system is outperforming others across the country with similar characteristics, according to a new study. Read story and 12 comments »

School Resource Monitor Arrested for Being Drunk in Public

Friday, June 5, 2009

A Loudoun County school resource monitor was arrested for being drunk in a public school today. Read story and 6 comments »

MAP: 2009 Graduation Sites, Speakers

Friday, June 5, 2009

Loudoun County Public Schools recently released information about the ceremonies for 2009 graduates. Read story »

Killing of 3-School Deal Offers Lessons

Process to Acquire Land Might Change

Thursday, May 28, 2009

The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors' vote last week to strike down a plan to build a three-school complex near Lovettsville might have far-reaching consequences, including strained relations between supervisors and the School Board and a revamped process for purchasing land for schools. Read story and 28 comments »

School Officials Fear Future Cuts

As Budgets Flatten, Enrollment Increases

Thursday, May 28, 2009

As the toughest school spending cuts in several years become reality July 1, Virginia education officials credit the federal stimulus law for helping them avoid more onerous reductions. But they are looking nervously to the next budget cycle. Read story and 1 comment »

Board Might Vote Soon On 3-School Campus

Opposition Grows in Western Loudoun

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Loudoun County supervisors could vote as early as this week on whether to kill a proposed deal for a three-school campus near Lovettsville, as pressure ramps up from a group of western Loudoun residents who say the schools would ruin the area's rural economy. Read story and 86 comments »

Loudoun Schoolteacher's Past Comes to Light at Hearing

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

A Loudoun County teacher yesterday became the focus of a congressional hearing on restraining schoolchildren as government investigators reported that a student in her classroom at a Texas public school died seven years ago when she lay on him after he refused to stay in his seat. Read story and 58 comments »

Post Recognizes Outstanding Loudoun Educators

Mountain View Teacher, Mill Run Principal Chosen

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Jim Jenkins, a fifth-grade teacher at Mountain View Elementary School in Purcellville, doesn't need standardized tests to find out how his students are doing. He just asks them. Students lead conferences with parents and teachers at report card time, and they assess themselves. Read story »

Letter to the Editor: Tysons Corner Farm Isn't A Good Model for Loudoun

Thursday, May 14, 2009

In a letter to the editor in the May 10 Loudoun Extra, Priscilla Godfrey omitted or misstated a few compelling details in her discussion of the Loudoun School Board's "deep, deep trouble" as it proposes to build three schools in Wheatland. Read story »

Letter to the Editor: Schools Site Critics Don't Consider Children's Needs

Sunday, May 10, 2009

I am writing to provide compelling details about the decision to purchase property three miles south of Lovettsville for the construction of three schools. Read story and 124 comments »

Rally Held To Protest 3 Schools

Complex Planned Near Lovettsville

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Dozens of western Loudoun County residents rallied outside the county government building in Leesburg on Monday night to protest a plan to build three public schools near Lovettsville. Read story and 175 comments »

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 »

Schools Chief Should Resign, NAACP Says

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Leaders of the Loudoun County branch of the NAACP called for School Superintendent Edgar B. Hatrick III to resign yesterday, criticizing his minority hiring record. But the School Board chairman and others said he has their full support. Read story and 20 comments »

Up Close: Former Redskin Sam Huff

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Hall of Famer and Washington Redskins great, Sam Huff, has recently expressed his concern about school consolidation in Loudoun County. Read story and 7 comments »

My Students. My Cellphone. My Ordeal.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Ting-Yi Oei gives his account of how his life changed after he was arrested in Aug. 20 on charges of child pornography. A judge later dismissed the charges. Read story and 9 comments »

Letter to the Editor: It's the Wrong Place And the Wrong Cost

Thursday, April 16, 2009

As a mother, teacher and 12-year Loudoun County taxpayer, I am appalled that Loudoun officials — namely, the Loudoun County School Board — contracted recently to purchase a 170-acre site in the agricultural district of Wheatland (between Lovettsville and Purcellville) for a future elementary, middle and high school complex for more than 4,000 students. Read story and 9 comments »

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