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Coming events
Coming events for September-October
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Schools consider facility uses, costs
The Orange County School Board is reviewing its facility use policy, determining what groups should be charged to use buildings and what that charge should be.
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Vocational vision
Orange County has set its sights on a $15 million career and technical education center. Building it, however, is another matter entirely.
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School board supports early August calendar
In 2012, summer will end early for Orange County Public School students and staff. After months of discussion, Orange County School Board members adopted a 2012-2013 school calendar Tuesday night which includes an early August start date.
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Calendar will work best if it is consistent
Change is almost always uncomfortable. Particularly if it’s a big change. Tuesday night, the Orange County School Board voted 4-1 to approve a dramatically different school calendar for the 2012-13 school year.
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Feedback varies on proposed early August school start
A handful of concerned employees and citizens spoke at Tuesday night's public hearing on the Orange County School Board's proposed 2012-13 school calendar.
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Budget bracelets
One Gordon-Barbour Elementary School student is taking on the budget, one chain stitch at a time.
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Schools ready to send budget to supervisors
Tuesday night, Orange County School Board members unanimously approved superintendent Dr. Bob Grimesey's proposed budget.
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Bigger budget?
This time last year, as snow fell outside, superintendent Dr. Bob Grimesey presented a bleak budget-one that eliminated positions, funding for extracurricular activities and made 15 percent non-personnel cuts.
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Schools begin budget
Last year, the Orange County School Board cut approximately 50 positions, eliminated partial funding for extracurricular activities and made 15 percent non-personnel cuts to the budget. This year, board members are discussing raises?
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Happier holidays
Despite snow on the ground, dozens of local elves marched out of the Waugh Harley-Davidson Owners Group (HOG) Parlor Saturday morning armed with Easy Bake Ovens, Paper Jamz guitars, Barbie dolls and ZhuZhu pets for needy girls and boys in Orange County.
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Parents upset about new school alignment
It was a packed house at the Orange County School Board meeting Tuesday night as 13 parents and grandparents spoke out about a proposal that would put students in grades three through eight together under one roof.
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School options explored
Tuesday night the Orange County School Board looked at various options for opening the new school including closing various schools, changing grade level distributions and even opening the new school as an additional high school, each with its own set of associated costs, savings, advantages and disadvantages.
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Open, closed
The new Locust Grove Middle School is expected to be completed in three months and begin serving students next fall. However, this may not mean a nine-school district as expected.
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Holiday adoptions turned over to Children's Toy Box
Christmas comes the same time every year, but when the economy is down it may not always be a welcome sight. The recession has forced many county families to make tough financial decisions and that's particularly difficult during the Christmas season.
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Schools ready for transitions
Last week, the Orange County School Board made major changes to the administration line-up at five local schools.
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Schools save most of surplus
Tuesday night, school board members at last decided how to spend more than $950,000 in Virginia Retirement Service (VRS) savings, but it wasn't easy.
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School board's budget balance
School board members continued to debate the merits of restoring cut positions or funding future needs in their on-going discussion on how to spend more than $950,000 in Virginia Retirement Savings (VRS) Tuesday night.
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Savings or staff?
At a special budget work session held Monday, four school board members were unable to come to a decision regarding how to spend more than $950,000 in Virginia Retirement Service (VRS) savings (District 5 board member Jim Hopkins was absent.)
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Schools withdraw request
School board members have withdrawn a $241,000 supplemental funding request from county supervisors.
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Adequate funding for our schools
The Commonwealth of Virginia has 136 school divisions. Orange County ranks 34th in its ability to pay, but ranks 127th in per-pupil expenditure for education. Orange also ranks 101st out of 136 school divisions in average teacher salary.
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Finding funds
School board considers self-sufficiency proposal, will ask supervisors for more funding
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Schools tweak cuts
Previously, Orange County Schools Superintendent Dr. Bob Grimesey crafted a budget consisting of four levels of reductions aimed at covering a possible $6 million shortfall in the schools' $46 million budget. In a work session Monday, school board members spent hours fine-tuning budget cuts that may matter little if state or local revenues meet worst-case scenario projections.
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Some things survived
Faced with a possible $6 million shortfall in a $46 million budget, Orange County Public Schools is examining all of its options for scaling back. Last week, Superintendent Dr. Bob Grimesey presented his recommendations to the school board which included levels of proposed position cuts, program elimination and even cuts to school sports. But, some positions and programs considered for cuts have been spared–at least for the time being.
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