Education

INDEPENDENCE — Grayson County will invest a portion of all future dividends it receives from a commerce park in education.
Supervisors, looking for new ways to help fund the county’s school system, approved a resolution earlier this month that will provide additional money to the school system above the county’s mandated financial requirements.

HILLSVILLE — Carroll County supervisors, after some slight clarification about school financial categories, have approved a total education budget of $37.93 million budget.
Supervisor David Hutchins had the school officials move the $1.6 million shown in the budget’s “other educational programs” to the instruction category, as the county supervisors now approve the school budget categorically.
“I don’t think that’s a category in the code [of Virginia],” he said. “Where does that need to go?”

HILLSVILLE — Contractors take note: Carroll County Public Schools have millions of dollars of work available on expansions to two facilities.
Educators began the bidding process Monday on projects that would add the ninth grade to the high school and turn the intermediate school into a facility to house grades sixth through eight.
The school system has $15 million in bonds from the federal stimulus to work with so far.