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Education

  • Grayson schools accredited, four with warning

    INDEPENDENCE – All seven of Grayson County’s schools were accredited for the 2013-14 school year – though four received warning in at least one subject.

    Grayson’s Director of Instruction and Assessment Stephen Cornett provided the school board with an update on the accreditation status during the board’s regular meeting last week.

    “All schools are accredited,” Cornett told the board. “Although some are with warning.”

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  • Galax approves permit for new school

    After a lengthy final public hearing on the matter, Galax City Council members voted unanimously to approve the school board’s request for a conditional use permit for a parcel of residentially zoned land off Fries Road for the construction of a new school.

    Thirteen speakers — including residents of the neighborhood where the school is to be built, Galax Elementary School staff and Schools Superintendent Bill Sturgill — took the floor to argue their points.

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  • Grayson going after school meals debt

    INDEPENDENCE – Students in Grayson County may soon be excluded from extra-curricular activities and offered an alternative lunch if school cafeteria debts are paid up after administrators discussed a growing debt with school board members this month.

    Grayson County Public Schools’ Director of Personnel Judy Greear approached the board during its regular meeting this month to discuss what she called a “spiraling problem” over the last few years – debt in the cafeterias.

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  • Grayson SOL results mixed

    By DON RICHESON, Staff

    INDEPENDENCE — Results were mixed for Grayson County students who took the state’s Standards of Learning exams last year.

    The results, released last month by the Virginia Department of Education, show that overall the students improved in two main categories, but fell in three, although the tests reportedly increased in difficulty over the previous year.

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  • Galax school earn full accreditation

    Galax City Schools are fully accredited this year (2013-2014), according to the Virginia State Department of Education.

    In order to achieve accreditation, each school must achieve a passing rate of at least 75 percent in English Standards of Learning (SOL) tests and 70 percent in math, science, history and social science SOLs.

    High schools, additionally, must hit an 85 percent mark on the Graduation and Completion Index, meaning that 85 percent of the students must graduate, get a GED or achieve a certification of completion.

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  • Carroll schools accredited by state

    HILLSVILLE — Preliminary reports have Carroll County school administrators feeling positive about the improvements they have made in their curriculum over the past year.

    According to preliminary state and federal accountability reports, all nine schools within the Carroll County Public School (CCPS) system were found to be accredited.

    Additionally, five out of the nine met federal accountability standards, with four missing the bar only by one or two objectives out of the required 36.

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  • Grayson students to receive free laptops

    INDEPENDENCE – Grayson County will roll out its digital conversion this week, as the pilot program kicks off at four division schools.

    Speaking about the new initiative – which will put laptop computers in the hands of students in various grade levels throughout the county – Division Superintendent Kevin Chalfant said everything is moving ahead as planned.

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  • Galax sets hearing on proposed school site

    The Galax School Board on Aug. 12 voted to approve entering into a contract to purchase property on Kipling Lane, the proposed site for building a new elementary school.

    The board has spent several months planning the project and discussing the property purchase with Galax City Council and the city’s planning commission.

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  • Carroll has nation's first agricultural STEM lab

    HILLSVILLE — Just in time for the fall semester, Carroll County High School opened the doors to its Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Lab for agriculture — the first in the nation of its kind — on Aug. 6.

    Carroll County has deep roots in the field of agriculture, with farm production and agriculture providing the largest economic sector. According to a news release from the county, this project has been one of the many agricultural efforts supported by the Carroll County Board of Supervisors.

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  • Carroll changes the way it picks top grads

    HILLSVILLE — Beginning this fall, Carroll County Public Schools’ top graduates will be honored differently than in previous years.

    Instead of choosing a class valedictorian and salutatorian, two students will be chosen from the Summa Cum Laude graduates by members of the senior class and members of the school’s faculty and staff to serve as graduation speakers, according to the student handbook.

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