School Board 7th District member Don Coleman sent out his email newsletter for June today, with a wrap-up of recent issues and activities, including his visit to Milwaukee to study successes of Violence Free Zones, Franklin Military now accepting applications for 6th graders for 2009-2010, the playground fire at George Mason, and spotlight on Fairfield [...]
The School Board was presented a proposal (PDF) to add the middle school grades 6-8 to Franklin Military Academy. The RTD reports that “the budget for next school year includes $25,000 to implement the program” and to defray the cost of uniforms for up to 100 students.
The Virginia Department of Education today released state-level, division-level and school-level reports that detail outcomes for students who entered the ninth-grade for the first time in 2004 and were scheduled to graduate in the spring of 2008.
A message from 1st District School Board rep Kim Bridges over at Near West End News includes an invitation to tour a few of the neighborhood schools: Tuesday, November 18 from 8:15 – 11:45 – Get on the Bus tour of 3 RPS schools. [...] This time we’re touring Overby-Shepard Elementary, Martin Luther King Middle [...]
Statewide, 81.3% of the class of 2008 graduated on time. Armstrong High School managed to graduate 54.8% of their students on time, while Franklin Military graduated 93.8% of their students in the same time period. Citywide the on-time graduation rate is 67.5%. Check out the city-wide numbers by school. (PDF)
The Virginia Department of Education released the data on the School Accreditation Status for 2008-2009 today and all of the neighborhood schools are designated as Fully Accredited. Congratulations to Chimborazo Elementary, Bellevue Elementary, George Mason Elementary, Fairfield Elementary, Woodville Elementary, Martin Luther King Jr Middle School, Armstrong High School, and Franklin Military Academy!
A senior at Franklin Military Academy was suspended for writing a list of classmates names into a book called “Death Note”, apparently inspired by fictional Japanese comic book of the same name “about a high school student who rids the world of evil by putting people’s names in a notebook, which leads to their deaths”. [...]
