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The Governor's School @ Innovation Park. The Governor's School @ Innovation Park in Manassas will host an information meeting for parents and prospective students from PW County, Manassas and Manassas Park high schools on Tuesday, December 9 at 7 p.m. in room 1101 at the Edward L. Kelly Leadership Center, 14715 Bristow Road, Manassas, VA 20112. (near the county landfill).

Standards of Quality and teachers' salaries are Prince William County School Board's top two issues for state funding according to a news release.

On Monday, December 8, at 6:30 p.m. Joe Ehrmann, a former Baltimore Colt, is coming to Wakefield School's campus in The Plains to give a keynote to the community on respect and positive mentoring. This event is open to the public.

Prince William County Public Schools and School Division offices will close for Thanksgiving break beginning with a half-day early dismissal for schools on Wednesday, November 26.

For interested families, Delegate Richard Anderson and his staff will host an orientation session on the Future Delegate Program on Tuesday, December 16, 7-8:30pm, Powell’s Creek Conference Room, McCoart Government Center, 1 County Complex Court, Woodbridge, VA.

The US Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a $100,000 grant to Fauquier County Public Schools for a project that will train more than 1,000 school personnel and community members to respond to mental illness in children and youth. Fauquier school division is the only one in Virginia to receive such a grant.

A dozen Prince William County Schools' world language teachers including several from our area were presenters and participants at this year’s Foreign Language Association of Virginia conference. Two county Spanish teachers were rated tops among 200+ presenters. About 800 teachers and administrators attended the conference.