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School Board gives final approval to $418M spending plan

Backed by a $25 million boost in contributions from city taxpayers, the Richmond School Board Tuesday approved spending a record $16,814 for each of the 24,800 students projected to be served in the 2019-20 budget year that begins July 1.

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  • By Jerermy M. Lazarus and Ronald E. Carrington
  • June 7, 2019
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Henrico’s Thornton, Gregory win primary contests

Frank J. Thornton, who has represented the Fairfield District on the Henrico County Board of Supervisors since 1995, handily won a Democratic primary challenge Tuesday with 64 percent of the vote. Mr. Thornton, 76, won the Democratic nod by outpacing challengers Maurice Tyler, a longtime athletic coach, who received 20 percent of the vote, and Joseph W. Brown, a retired Henrico Transportation Department employee, who garnered 16 percent of the votes cast.

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School Board continues to wrestle with reopening plans, issues

As the Richmond School Board works to come up with a plan for reopening city schools in the fall, one of the big concerns is educational equity and what that means for a school system where nearly 20 percent of the 24,000 students have special or high needs.

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Voter empowerment- Linda Jackson-Shaw, chair of the Connection Committee of Upsilon Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, leads the organization’s training to register people to vote. The training session at the L. Douglas Wilder Library & Learning Resource Center at Virginia Union University was held Tuesday on National Voter Registration Day. Four area AKA chapters plan to hold a series of community and church meetings to register people to vote and to inform people of their voting rights. The meetings will be targeted before the Nov. 5 election and the presidential election in November 2020. The deadline to register to vote in the Nov. 5 election, or to file an address change to vote, is Tuesday, Oct. 15. The deadline to request an absentee ballot by mail is Tuesday, Oct. 29. In-person absentee voting began Sept. 20 and continues through Saturday, Nov. 2. To schedule a voter meeting with the AKAs, email info@akaupsilonomega.org.

Voter empowerment- Linda Jackson-Shaw, chair of the Connection Committee of Upsilon Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, leads the organization’s training to register people …

Published on September 27, 2019

Fifty ninth-graders from Richmond Public Schools pose with officials last Saturday for photographs by happy parents and family members as they are celebrated for receiving four-year academic scholarships to Virginia Union University. The students must keep up their grades and finish high school before enrolling tuition-free at VUU, where their room and board also will be covered by a scholarship currently valued around $108,000. The scholarships are part of the HBCUs “VUU is RVA” campaign to give greater access to academic, economic, medical and civic support to residents of the Metro Richmond area. Last Saturday’s celebration for the young scholars was held at the Claude G. Perkins Living and Learning Center on VUU’s campus. Officials attending the event included RPS Superintendent Jason Kamras; Dr. Carleitta Paige- Anderson, dean of VUU’s University College; and Richmond School Board members Cheryl L. Burke, 7th District, and Jonathan Young, 4th District. (Ronald E. Carrington/Richmond Free Press)

Fifty ninth-graders from Richmond Public Schools pose with officials last Saturday for photographs by happy parents and family members as they are celebrated for receiving …

Published on October 11, 2019

A line of seniors and their families wait outside Armstrong High School on Tuesday for their turn to enter the building for the ceremony where diplomas were awarded one student at a time to curb the spread of COVID-19.

A line of seniors and their families wait outside Armstrong High School on Tuesday for their turn to enter the building for the ceremony where …

Published on June 25, 2020

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