Exiting RPS superintendent could take home $200K
Pinkney-Eppes told CBS 6 that the board is looking at giving Brandon at least one year of her contract of $170,000, plus her remaining vacation, sick leave and a portion of her deferred compensation...
View ArticleRichmond officials question deal for Dove school
Since the new School Board was seated in January, the nine members have been called into individual, private meetings to discuss the project with leaders from the city and the Richmond Redevelopment...
View ArticleFurniture company makes offer on Richmond school warehouse
In an April 15 letter from Marshall to Superintendent Yvonne W. Brandon and School Board Chairman Jeff M. Bourne, of the 3rd District, also obtained Monday, Marshall shared details of the offer and...
View ArticleRichmond schools won’t receive extra $8 million
The only change City Council offered in next year’s funding is an increase in the school system’s capital improvement allotment from about $500,000 to $685,000. That money is set aside for general...
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Williams: Dove Court school a misplaced priority
…$21 million to rebuild a relatively new facility in better condition than the vast majority of Richmond’s public schools… Now, City Council has gotten in on the act by funding a new school in...
View ArticleElementary School Magic
Here’s a magic trick. Tear down an old school (in this case Overby-Sheppard Elementary School in Richmond), build a new one in its place using nearly all allocated capital ground funds for school...
View ArticleRichmond School Board again debates closing schools
On a 5-4 vote during a heated Monday work session, the Richmond School Board agreed to begin a process the prevailing side hopes will lead to the closure of Clark Springs Elementary School, the Adult...
View ArticleRichmond School Board again debates closing schools
The total school budget for next year, including federal, state and other funding, is $246.5 million, down from $249 million from the fiscal year that ended June 2012. And despite a schools report that...
View ArticleRPD Gives Thousands Of Tax-Payer Dollars To ROC
The Richmond Police Department gave more than half a million dollars to the ROC for crime prevention programs at two Richmond high schools. Link
View ArticleCouncil offers seed money for middle school laptops
The plan has not been vetted by the School Board. [School Board Chairman Jeff M. Bourne] said he wasn’t sure how the laptops would be used, how they would support academic goals and what impact they...
View ArticleReport: City schools athletic facilities lacking
The possible scuttling of a grant for work on the football field at Richmond’s John Marshall High School has led to public revelation of widespread deficiencies in athletic facilities across the city....
View ArticleIt’s not evolution over charter schools, it’s an epiphany
With the “good old boys” mentality of the Mayor’s cronies, it certainly seems like the only thing of importance is getting the Jones agenda up and running, and to H*** with everything else. We are...
View ArticleCouncil school oversight plan elicits mixed reaction
Richmond City Council Vice President Ellen F. Robertson has finally unleashed a long-anticipated resolution asking the city’s School Board to present a three-year plan for academic improvement in...
View ArticleCity Council committee delays effort to seek plan from Richmond School Board
The proposal, which did not sit well with some School Board members who saw it as overstepping the boundaries of governance, would ask for budget projections, academic goals, prioritized improvement...
View ArticleWarehouse sale a sticking point
For the third time since June, school leaders this week thwarted an attempt by Mayor Dwight C. Jones to wrest away a piece of school property that a private company wants — a potentially troubling...
View ArticleRichmond receives second unsolicited offer on warehouse near Diamond
The city of Richmond has received a second unsolicited offer to purchase a warehouse near The Diamond that has been at the heart of a battle between the city’s School Board and the administration of...
View ArticleWilliams: Neglect of Richmond school buildings has become a crisis
The Richmond school district has too many buildings where delayed maintenance has placed learning, if not students and faculty, at risk. The cost to patch these facilities has been put at an estimated...
View ArticleStark contrasts in how localities fund capital needs
In the city, the approach for decades has been deflection and denial. The state of schools got so bad by last year, officials put together a 10-year, $104.7 million list to show backlogged routine...
View ArticleCity school officials try to catch up on 40 years of neglect
And with enrollment on the rise again after years of decline, the call for more classroom space is getting louder. Link
View ArticleRPS Superintendent: We can’t keep patching outdated schools
The Richmond Superintendent of Schools says it is time to stop “patching” outdated buildings. The announcement comes as students at Fairfield Court Elementary School are being relocated because of...
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