Stories tagged "lcps"

Don't start planning that weeklong vacation in November just yet.

The student had a test. He wasn't nearly prepared. His friend had a prescription for a drug he heard helped people concentrate. The student asked for one of his friend's small blue pills. He popped the Adderall in his mouth. He aced the test. He could immediately picture himself doing it again.

The camp introduces rising sixth to eighth grade students to MTC programs, “ through hands-on exploration and project-based learning workshops,” and allows younger students to explore the educational possibilities and opportunities open only to LCPS juniors and seniors during the school year.

There have been two Frederick Douglass facilities in the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) system. Douglass High School opened in 1941 in Leesburg and operated as the only all black high school in the county from then until 1968-69 and desegregation. Frederick Douglass Elementary opened in 1958 on Plaza Street near the former high school and today is a LCPS support facility. That building will be replaced with the new two-story Frederick Douglass ES and a planned 2012-2013 opening.

Hatrick begins a new four-year contract as LCPS superintendent on July 1, 2010. The Loudoun School Board set Hatrick's salary at its 2009-2010 level of $232,680. Hatrick's car allowance was also frozen at the 2009-2010 level of $11,378.80; and the same contract terms as 2009-2010 apply to $25,000 toward a tax-deferred annuity and a $5,000 annual contribution to life insurance.

The renewed discussion was sparked by the school board’s decision earlier this month to decline supervisors’ additional request and funding for studies intended to examine the expansion of four high schools - Briar Woods, Broad Run, Stone Bridge and Tuscarora - -to enrollments beyond 2,000 students.

The Freedom choirs join with other choristers to form the Distinguished Concerts Singers International, a choir of distinction. Dr. Jonathan Griffith, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor for DCINY states: “The Freedom High School Choirs received this invitation because of the quality and high level of musicianship demonstrated by the singers and the exceptional recommendations given by Ms. Pomerville’s choral colleagues."