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Education

  • Galax's new school plan on hold

    Galax City Public Schools’ recent request for a conditional use permit to build a new elementary school in the city was tabled during Galax City Council’s March 24 meeting, after a lengthy discussion resulted in a split vote among members of the Galax Planning Commission.
    Discussions were long — and, at times, heated — during the two-and-a-half-hour session that evening. Following statements from five concerned citizens, members of both council and the planning commission became divided in their opinions about the school system’s request.

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  • Grayson schools ask for more in budget

    By SHAINA STOCKTON, Staff
    INDEPENDENCE — The Grayson County School Board is asking county supervisors for $250,000 above the minimally required funding for the 2014-2015 school year, to help fund building renovations, the purchase of a new school bus and laptops for the students.
    Although budget plans are still in their early stages, the two groups are openly discussing their options to continue meeting each other’s goals.

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  • Sheriff's department participates in Operation Safe Stop

    INDEPENDENCE — Grayson County Sheriff Richard Vaughan announced that his office will be collaborating with other law enforcement agencies and school officials to conduct Operation Safe Stop Day today, Wednesday.
    This campaign involves raising public awareness to the dangers of passing school buses that are picking up and discharging children. Law enforcement officers will be following school buses on their routes and observing selected bus stops.  Motorists who violate the law and pass stopped school buses will be charged.

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  • Galax school calendar breaks with tradition

    By SHAINA STOCKTON, Staff
    There is less than one month left before Galax City Public Schools will have a final decision on a calendar for the 2014-2015 school year.
    After looking into the possibility of a balanced calendar — a new concept that includes periods throughout the school year for breaks, remediation and enrichment activities — Schools Superintendent Bill Sturgill will soon have to decide whether he wants to recommend the new concept or the traditional calendar to the school board next month.

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  • Educators fear state funding shortfall

    RICHMOND — Don’t be fooled by gaudy figures of proposed state public school funding, say education officials.
    Whatever lawmakers do, whenever they do it, education advocates fear appropriations will fall short of past funding levels.
    From teacher pay, to support staff funding, to pension plan changes, educators in Virginia say recent policy changes have left them scrambling to adjust in an era when state-per-pupil spending hasn’t recovered to 2009 levels.

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  • HVAC at high school now operational

     

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  • Galax plans for future school

    By SHAINA STOCKTON, Staff
    Galax City Public Schools has requested a conditional use permit from the city’s planning commission to allow for the potential construction of a new school in the future.
    The parcel of land in question is located adjacent to Kipling Lane, Moore Lane and John Street. It is under contract for purchase by the school system.

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  • No room for unexpected expenses in school budget

    HILLSVILLE — The Carroll County schools budget is so tight for the next year that if electricity rates go up, or anything else unexpected happens, the district may not have enough money to cover it, according to Schools Superintendent Strader Blankenship.
    Educators will ask for level funding from the Carroll supervisors, the superintendent said Tuesday at the first presentation of the proposed fiscal year 2014-2015 budget to the full school board.

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  • Carroll will look at gym's financial impact

    HILLSVILLE — Rather than seeking federal money for a high school auxiliary gym immediately, Carroll supervisors limited their next move to studying what the financial impact of another loan would be on the county.
    Supervisor Bob Martin apologized at the regular March board meeting Monday for springing a motion in connection with funding for a new Carroll County High School auxiliary gym on the other elected officials during supervisor’s time.
    Martin has several times championed the auxiliary gym.

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  • Which books can be excluded from library?

    The Galax High School’s library book committee has made progress in recent months, developing a system and testing it out on books that are typically geared towards the teen population to weed out what some consider objectionable volumes.
    Now that an idea is taking shape, the committee is working to fine-tune the screening system, called a matrix, and ready it for use.
    The GHS library is shared by middle and high school students.

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