Education

INDEPENDENCE — If the Grayson County School Board can come up with at least $75,000 in any of its future budgets, then the Grayson County Board of Supervisors will help it buy school buses beginning in 2013.
Supervisors agreed June 1 to change the guidelines of its new "School Bus Replacement Fund." The fund now must be a dollar-to-dollar match.
The county will allocate up to $75,000 per year — or 25 percent of annual county decal collections, whichever is less — to be used by the school system as a matching amount for bus purchases.

INDEPENDENCE — Employees of the Grayson County Public School System will get their first raise in more than three years, although it is a one-time cost of living bonus that won't carry over to the next school year.

INDEPENDENCE — Parents in the Mount Rogers community have challenged Grayson County School Board members to put themselves in their children's shoes and see just how fun a bus ride from Mount Rogers to Independence really is.
Sherry Perry, a teacher in the county, came to the board during its regular meeting earlier this month as a parent, instead of an educator.
Perry had four points to discuss, one of which was that she was personally concerned about the amount of time her children had to spend on the school buses each day.