Thursday, April 18, 2013
Leesburg law enforcement, assisted by a Virginia State Police K9, swept the building.
A bomb threat made at Tuscarora High School in Leesburg proved to be a false alarm, according to Loudoun County Public Schools spokesman Wayde Byard. The Leesburg Police Department was on the scene, according to Leesburg Today. Leesburg police spokesman Lt. Jeff Dube referred inquiries to the school system. "We had a non-specific bomb threat at Tuscarora today," Byard said. "By non-specific, I mean it was phrased in such a way that it did not appear credible." However, authorities were called. The Leesburg Police Department and a Virginia State Police K9 unit swept the building and deemed it safe. "We take all threats seriously," Byard said, adding that he had fielded 100 to 150 calls from concerned residents by 2:40 p.m. Byard also said …
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Tuscarora High School
801 N King St, Leesburg, VA
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Students learn about careers they are interested, including some of the less exciting aspects.
For many students, junior year of high school marks the time when they begin to focus on career and college goals. Parents and teachers begin asking, “What do you want to do after high school?” Each year Loudoun County Public Schools and the Loudoun School-Business Partnership Executive Council organizes a Job-For-A-Day Program. On Wednesday, 400 high school juniors from around the county had an opportunity to explore various fields of work. Participating businesses and organizations in the past have included Lockheed Martin, Fairfax Fire and Rescue, AOL and the Central Intelligence Agency, as well as Inova Loudoun Hospital. Inova Loudoun placed more than 60 students for the program and each student worked in an area of interest, such as …
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-77.47543
Inova Loudoun Hospital
44045 Riverside Pkwy, Leesburg, VA
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Four performances are scheduled this weekend for the family-friendly, classic musical.
Montana Brown, Heritage High School’s drama department director, knew it would be hard to come up with a spring musical as popular as last year’s production, Legally Blonde - The Musical. “I struggled to find something as epic, and then decided that West Side Story would be a good show for our school,” Brown said. “Everyone told me there is no way you are going to pull this off.” This weekend, the community is invited to come and see how they did just that. More than 100 students auditioned for a cast of 50; that’s more auditions than any other show Heritage has put on. To draw the students in, Brown billed it as a Gangs of New York meets Romeo and Juliet type of show, complete with fight choreography and dancing, and she told them, “It …
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Heritage High School
520 Evergreen Mill Rd SE, Leesburg, VA
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397362
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The process to determine enrollment boundaries for three new schools impacting Ashburn and Leesburg continues to divide as eight plans remain in contention.
Two more proposals for redrawing school boundaries in the Ashburn and Dulles North area were added to the Loudoun County Public Schools web page about the boundary process Monday as the Loudoun School Board prepared for the evening’s public hearing.That brings to the total to eight maps that have associated rationales attached to them. With more than 200 speakers signed up, comments were limited to one minute for residents to express their feelings about an issue that will impact them for years to come. The new maps are included with this article. All maps can be viewed on the LCPS website. The board is scheduled to vote on the plan April 23. A recent meeting about the proposed boundaries proved divisive as communities called on the school…
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Residents may speak Monday during a Loudoun School Board public hearing; the final vote is set for April 23.
UPDATE: At this point, plans 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10 remain in contention. An eighth proposal for redrawing school boundaries in the Ashburn and Dulles North area was added to the Loudoun County Public Schools web page about the boundary process earlier today. By 5 p.m. four more plans were added to the site. Residents can weigh in on the various proposals during an April 15 public hearing at the LCPS Administration Building. The board is scheduled to vote on the plan April 23. A recent meeting about the proposed boundaries proved divisive as communities called on the school board to keep them whole or make them whole. The boundary redrawing process will accommodate: The April 15 hearing begins at 6:30 p.m., but speakers are encouraged to sign …
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LCPS Administration Building
21000 Education Court, Ashburn, VA
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Saturday, April 6, 2013
Additional proposals are presented, more could come as residents clamor to keep their communities together; public hearing set for April 15, vote April 23.
Three new plans were submitted hours before the start of a public hearing this past week for the creation of new attendance boundaries for the Ashburn and Dulles North areas, leaving residents scrambling to see whether the plans would help or hinder their neighborhoods’ efforts to stay together. Because of the growth in eastern Loudoun, the school system has been steadily building schools, which requires adjustments to attendance boundaries. The addition of two new high schools (one in 2014 and one in 2015) and one new middle school in 2014 are also impacting existing middle schools and high schools. Loudoun School Board Chairman Eric Hornberger (Ashburn) explained at the onset of the meeting that three new plans had been submitted, …
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-77.517377
LCPS Administration Building
21000 Education Court, Ashburn, VA
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2029677
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Friday, April 5, 2013
Get links to forms, your school locator and more here and prepare for the April 16 registration day.
Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) kindergarten registration begins Tuesday, April 16. Elementary schools will register students in their attendance zone only; check for registration hours at the elementary school your child will attend. Not sure which school your child will attend? Enter your address and find out here. Then go to Loudoun County Public Schools' site to find your school’s website in the pull-down menu in the upper left corner of the page. Parents enrolling students at the new Discovery and Moorefield Station elementary schools must register from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 16 at the LCPS Administrative Offices, 21000 Education Court, in Ashburn. Get registration forms at your local elementary school. Registration forms for …
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LCPS Administration Building
21000 Education Court, Ashburn, VA
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Early learning program incorporates teaching with the arts.
Head Start and Kindergarten Students in Loudoun County will now benefit from a new learning partnership between Telos Corporation and Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. They have partnered to implement 63 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Classroom Residency Sessions in Loudoun County starting this month. According to a joint statement from Telos and Wolf Trap, STEM education is considered a critical step in implementing future workforce development and this program will help teachers learn strategies for STEM learning. The idea is that these programs are designed to tap into children’s innate desire for active, multisensory learning and engage their imagination through puppetry, story dramatization, and role …
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
The exercise at Loudoun Valley HS in Purcellville was intended to help officers prepare for emergency situations.
Loudoun County conducted a safety training exercise at Loudoun Valley High School in Purcellville Monday morning that simulated a situation involving an armed intruder at the school. During the event, which last from about 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., public access was restricted at the school. Students were off for the day, while teachers were back for a work day following spring break. This exercise focused on the decision-making and coordination processes associated with responding to an armed intruder. The staff of Loudoun Valley High School has volunteered to participate because of the importance it places on school security. By conducting such exercises, participants hope to test current policies, practices and procedures, while educating those…
Talented students, an inspiring teacher, and a dedicated faculty and PTO put on an ambitious production for the community.
Students at Belmont Ridge Middle School are in the final stretch of rehearsing their spring musical production Beauty and the Beast. The Walt Disney Broadway musical begins this weekend and continues into the next. Producing a Broadway-length, two-and-a-half hour musical with 196 middle-schoolers might sound overwhelming, but Jason Augustowski was up for the task. Not only is he managing it with finesse, his enthusiasm and teaching techniques inspire and motivate the students. As a language arts teacher at the school, many of "Mr. A's" students choose to be in the annual spring musical because of his outgoing personality. “Mr. A is an amazing director,” said Ally Goodnight, who plays Babette in the show. “He makes it really fun and somehow…
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19045 Upper Belmont Pl, Leesburg, VA
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Joseph Barron
6:03 pm on Sunday, April 7, 2013
I was at the meeting and actually spoke (number 98). Compared to the other HOAs, I got the impression that we were a little on the light side. more ›