Joseph Guzman
School Board Considers Grade Weighting
Once again, the Loudoun County School Board is scheduled to discuss and possibly act on recommendations and objections to “weighting” grades for honors, Academy of Science and dual enrollment classes. LCPS Superintendent Ed Hatrick and LCPS staff outlined suggested changes.
Supervisors Reject School Board Contract
The final official act of the months long–and now failed–effort by the Loudoun County School Board to secure a three-school site in western Loudoun on the Cangiano/Burgess property at Wheatlands will play out during a special School Board meeting on Monday, June 1, at 1:30 p.m. in the School Board Meeting Room at the School Administrative Offices, 21000 Education Court, Ashburn.
School Board Sounds Off on Attendance Boundaries
A motion to adopt the staff plan recommendations for Ashburn and Leesburg area high schools failed in a 4-4-1 vote with John Stevens (Potomac), Jennifer Bergel (Catoctin), Bob Ohneiser (Broad Run) and Joseph Guzman (Sugarland) voting for the staff plan and Robert DuPree (Dulles), Warren Geurin (Sterling), Priscilla Godfrey (Blue Ridge) and Tom Reed (At-Large) voting against. Tom Marshall (Leesburg) abstained.
The recent debate on Ashburn/Leesburg high school attendance boundaries has been a difficult and sometimes rancorous one for the School Board. Here are comments from their most recent discussion:
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