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School report cards released

The Virginia Department of Education has released their 2011-2012 school report cards. Below are the full PDF reports for Ginter Park Elementary, J.E.B. Stuart Elementary, Linwood Holton Elementary, Henderson Middle, John Marshall High: Ginter Park J.E.B. Stuart Linwood Holton Henderson John Marshall Lots of interesting numbers in there including behavioral offenses by school.

Voice your concern about RPS’s $23 million budget shortfall

The last information session on the Richmond Public Schools’ budget shortfall (of $23.8 million) will be held at Northside’s John Marshall High School from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. this Thursday, on March 29th. These sessions are to inform the public about how Richmond Public Schools (“RPS”) spends its money and what cuts could be made [...]

Richmond Public Schools CLOSED

UPDATE Richmond City Public Schools are now CLOSED for Monday March 5th. Get your snow boots on!!  

State of the Schools address at Henderson

The annual State of the Schools address will be held at Henderson middle school this Wednesday (February 29th) at the not-so-convinent time of 11:30am.

Coffee & Tea with the superintendent

Join Dr. Yvonne Brandon for a series of “intimate conversations and updates” concerning Richmond Public Schools. Dr. Brandon is doing a bunch of these around Richmond, and will come to Henderson Middle on Tuesday (February 28th) at 3pm. I’m not sure what the topics will be, but sounds like it could be interesting.

Two Northside schools are some of the “least affluent”

The RTD posted this data set listing the schools with the highest percentage of Free and Reduced Price Lunch (FRPL) correlated with principal salary. Two Northside schools make the top 25.

Holton, Henderson, John Marshall among schools that did not make AYP

This is pulled from the VDOE’s (incredibly hard to use) AYP page. To make AYP a school must have: …more than 86 percent of students overall and students in all subgroups must have demonstrated proficiency in reading, and more than 85 percent of students overall and in all subgroups must have demonstrated proficiency in mathematics.

Bullying workshop

Not a workshop to improve your bullying skills, but a workshop to help prevent bullying and cyber-bullying in schools — presented by the Richmond Public Schools Parent Resource Center. I couldn’t find anything about this on the the Parent Resource Center website, but NBC12 is reporting the workshop starts at 6pm on February 17th at [...]

State of the Schools address … tomorrow!

The annual State of the Schools address is tomorrow (February 10th) at 11am at Henderson Middle. Dr. Yvonne Brandon will deliver the address and the school board will be present. As with most State of the ________ addresses, I expect their to be lots of clapping.

Notes on school enrollments

We’ve had a couple of readers ask what the process is for open enrollment in Richmond Public Schools. Well ASK NO LONGER. Richmond Public Schools Open Enrollment February 1st — February 15th at 4:30pm You’ll need to visit this site: http://newweb.richmond.k12.va.us/OE during that window to fill out the open enrollment application. You can learn — [...]

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