Education

By LARRY CHAMBERS
Staff

INDEPENDENCE — Although it wasn’t the amount educators requested, the Grayson County Board of Supervisors approved the school operating budget last week.
At the continued meeting of the supervisors on April 26, Supervisor Mike Maynard made the motion to approve the budget in the amount of $20.8 million, which was passed by a unanimous 5-0 vote.
The total includes $5.28 million in county funds.

INDEPENDENCE – Give the schools the money they need in the 2011-12 budget, many schools proponents told the Grayson supervisors in a marathon public hearing last Wednesday
More than two dozen citizens spoke for more than two hours at public hearing on the proposed Grayson County Public Schools budget.
With more than 70 people in attendance, many of the speakers asked the board to fully fund the $5.56 million schools request, citing lack of raises, aging buildings and outdated resources as the primary reasons the funding was needed.

HILLSVILLE — The General Assembly-triggered funding crisis for the Virginia Virtual Academy has passed for now, an official with the K12 company told the Carroll School Board on April 12.
Gov. Bob McDonnell took action to save the online school that provided educational opportunities to around 400 students across the state, an effort facilitated by K12 and the Carroll school division, recapped Suzanne Sloane of K12 in an update to the school board.