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Monday, March 11, 2013

Tonight: North Arlington School Boundary Changes Town Hall

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 …

Friday, January 18, 2013

Traffic, Community Facilities Among Concerns for New Elementary School

With much still to do, school is slated to open by September 2015.

Three months of concept work on a new elementary school in North Arlington has turned into five, but school officials remain confident that the project will be finished in time to open by September 2015. The school's impact on the surrounding neighborhoods — specifically, on the traffic — is a concern, as evidenced during a two-hour briefing the Arlington County Board received Thursday night. County leaders, too, want the sports fields on the Williamsburg Middle School campus — where the new elementary school will be located — to be true community facilities. So far, Arlington Public Schools doesn't have the money in its budget to realize that, School Board Member Abby Raphael said. The two bodies also talked about design and community …

Janet

8:58 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013

First priority mus be school security....why are new schools designed as regional sports, recreation,entertainment, community centers with classrooms? Where's the school security? It's an oxymoron. Moreover, if the people who run Arlington were responsible they wouldn't be packing more people into a tiny county that's already overcrowded. Where is the common sense? There isn't any. Vote them all …   more ›

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