Friday, March 22, 2013
Superintendent's proposed budget cuts about 62 positions.
Potential cuts to programs for gifted students and teen parents in the public school system drew 30 people out to speak before the Arlington School Board on Thursday night. Arlington Public Schools Superintendent Pat Murphy's $520.4 million proposed budget cuts about 62 positions from the school system, including gifted services teachers at all three high schools and more than 14 positions from the teen parenting program. The cuts are among nearly $8 million in reductions Murphy has proposed to balance the school's spending plan for next fiscal year, which begins July 1. The majority of Thursday night's speakers were teachers, parents and students who extolled the benefits of having a gifted services teacher at Wakefield, Washington-Lee or…
Arlington School Board will hold two public hearings on the matter in April about the plan to shuffle 900 Arlington students among eight schools.
Arlington Public Schools Superintendent Pat Murphy on Thursday formally presented a plan to adjust elementary school attendance zone boundaries in North Arlington. The recommendation — "Variation B" to the hundreds of parents who have been following the process — shuffles 900 students among seven existing elementary schools and a new one planned for the Williamsburg community. [More: 900 Students Move in Arlington Superintendent's School Boundary Recommendation] The school system has held about 40 meetings since September 2011 on the matter, from well-attended town halls to neighborhood meetings at Starbucks. Murphy said the feedback he'd received has been "thoughtful, informed, insightful and, ultimately, the dialogue was respectful." The…
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Superintendent Pat Murphy will make a presentation about changing seven elementary school attendance zone boundaries Thursday night following a public hearing on the school's proposed 2014 budget.
Arlington Public Schools Superintendent Pat Murphy will present his recommendation for changing seven elementary school attendance zone boundaries Thursday night. The changes are necessary to accommodate a new elementary school in Williamsburg, part of a larger effort to deal with overcrowding. The public school system expects to add 1,000 students a year for the foreseeable future. The new elementary school has forced the school system to juggle a wide range of community concerns, as officials moved various neighborhoods from one school attendance zone to another. The changes have caused the most heartburn to parents with children at Glebe and Taylor elementary schools. Staff has developed three plans — one recommendation and two …
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Murphy will make his recommendation on the changes to the Arlington School Board on March 21.
Arlington Public Schools Superintendent Pat Murphy held a town hall Monday night to hear what parents had to say about potential changes to school attendance zones that would affect seven North Arlington schools. They had a lot to say. "It's healthy," Murphy told Patch afterward. "I always feel you come away with something." A few hundred parents, many of them with children at Glebe or Taylor elementary schools, showed up to voice their concerns or show support or opposition for various plans to change school boundaries. [More: School Boundary Changes: Latest Recommendations Released] The town hall was at Williamsburg Middle School, which in years ahead will share its campus with a new elementary school. That new school is part of a larger…
Monday, March 11, 2013
Superintendent will make his recommendation to the Arlington School Board later this month.
Arlington Public Schools Superintendent Pat Murphy will host a town hall at 7 p.m. Monday to get feedback on the final three recommended changes to elementary school attendance zones in North Arlington. The town hall will be at Williamsburg Middle School. The school system is in the early stages of putting a new elementary school on the Williamsburg campus to help ease overcrowding. Parents who have children — or will have children — in Ashlawn, Glebe, Jamestown, McKinley, Nottingham, Taylor or Tuckahoe elementary schools will be potentially effected by the changes. The school system has held meetings on adjusting the existing boundaries for months. However, in late February some parents said they had just found out that the changes could …
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Arlington Public Schools Superintendent Pat Murphy: Items are 'lighthouses' to where school system needs to be going.
Arlington Public Schools Superintendent Pat Murphy's proposed $520.4 million budget includes a number of "unfunded investments." Murphy categorized them as "reminders" of expenditures he feels is necessary to continue to move the school system in the direction of its stated goals. "These are lighthouses to places we need to be going," Murphy told reporters Thursday morning. At the top of the list is foreign languages in elementary schools. Nine schools do not have this program. Some communities want it, and Murphy indicated the school system may be able to accommodate them if funds become available. That's potentially a big if. Nearly 80 percent of Arlington Public Schools' budget is local tax revenue transferred from the county government…
School system would add a security coordinator, maintain class size.
Arlington Public Schools Superintendent Pat Murphy has proposed a $520.4 million budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year that attempts to cope with skyrocketing student enrollment and nearly flat revenue growth. Murphy was slated to unveil his budget to the Arlington School Board at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. [Click here to watch the school board meeting in real time. It will be rebroadcast at 9 p.m. Friday and 7:30 p.m. Monday.] The budget does not increase class size. Overall, the school system is adding about 30 positions, though some existing employees will be shifted to other jobs and 16 custodian positions will be reduced through attrition. The superintendent's budget proposes increasing fees for the Montessori and Extended Day programs by 5 …
Friday, November 30, 2012
Arlington Public Schools will hold its own forum next week.
Looking across the Washington-Lee High School cafeteria, Arlington County Manager Barbara Donnellan said jokingly that maybe it could be rented out for a wedding. "Look at the view," she said to a few chuckles. Renting out public facility space was just one of many ideas that residents offered to help the county — and, by extension, Arlington Public Schools — make ends meet in next year's budget. "We're better off than most," Donnellan said. "We're not Detroit. We have people who are still investing … We're growing, but that's a good thing." Other ideas to come forward? Cutting the police department's budget, eliminating Cherrydale Branch Library, putting the Columbia Pike streetcar on hold and busing Arlington children to vacant schools …
Friday, September 28, 2012
The planetarium will have programs open to the public starting this weekend.
Following months of hard work by community volunteers and more than $1 million in renovations, Arlington's David M. Brown Planetarium officially reopened Friday morning. Outfitted with the latest in dome theater technology, the 56-seat planetarium will gradually incorporate educational programming for all grades throughout the year. Following this weekend's celebratory shows, regular public programming begins Oct. 12. Gone are the tedious slide reels that had to be stitched together for productions. Digital technology is now in place, meaning stargazers are no longer bound to Earth — different programs can take viewers to different planets or satellites in order to look at the stars and other phenomena from different perspectives. "It was …
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Friday, September 7, 2012
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan presented the award Friday when announcing the 269 public and private schools to win the award nationally this year.
When Arlington Public Schools Superintendent Pat Murphy asked a gym full of kindergartners through fifth-graders how many spent at least 30 minutes a day reading this summer, nearly every hand went up. Such was a requirement for Arlington Traditional Elementary School's Read for the Gold summer program. And its just one of many contributors to the overall academic excellence the school has achieved. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited Arlington Traditional on Friday morning to personally present the students and teachers — and even a few parents — with a 2012 National Blue Ribbon Schools award. "When I look out here… This is the best of what our country has to offer," Duncan said. "I'm here not just to recognize you, but to …
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11:03 am on Friday, March 22, 2013
Bring FLES to Tuckahoe - Petition to the board: http://www.change.org/petitions/arlington-county-school-board-arlington-va-implement-foreign-language-in-the-elementary-schools-fles-at-tuckahoe more ›