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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 — [...]

Richmond Community teacher named Teacher of the Year

BOOM! Gregory L. McCallum, a music teacher and band director at Community has been named RPS’s Teacher of the Year. McCallum was one of 48 city educators nominated for this year’s top teaching award. During his tenure with Richmond Public Schools, McCallum has served as the band and orchestra director at Chandler Middle, John F. [...]

Richmond Technical Center Plant Sale

Please support the Richmond Technical Center Plant Sale. All proceeds will be distributed to our RTC Horticulture seniors, who will be enrolling in a post-secondary institution to pursue a degree in a technical specialty. The RTC is located on 2020 Westwood Avenue. The plant sale will take place: Friday, October 15, 2010 @ 9:00 a.m. [...]

Richmond Concert Band performance

This Saturday on the Linwood Holton Lawn at 6pm the Richmond Concert Band will give a free performance. Students from RPS will be performing with the band, so bring your lawn chairs and picnics and get down. Also! If you’ve got an old instrument laying around you can bring it and donate it to “Old [...]