When students at Fairfax County’s Mount Vernon High School return to classes next week, they no longer will be allowed to wear “jeggings” as pants.
What exactly are jeggings? They are the fashion cousin of leggings, the skin-tight staples found in many high school hallways. Jeggings are leggings with a faux-denim appearance, providing the tailored jean look that is in vogue among teenagers. To dress in leggings or jeggings, Mount Vernon students must wear them underneath shorts, dresses or skirts that are at most three inches above the knee, according to school regulations.
The Prince William County School Board has passed a resolution asking the BOCS for permission to apply for federal Education Jobs Fund money to hire teachers in the current school year. The county school system ended up with an additional 807 students for the current school year which made the current teacher shortage even more severe. The cost for this many students is just under $8.7 million, or just under $11,000 per pupil.
Prince William County Public Schools has been allocated about $17 million through the Federal Education Jobs Fund Program, but the school division can’t use that money unless the county approves it.
The School Board voted 7 to 1 Wednesday to ask the Board of County Supervisors to allocate $5.8 million of the federal money to the school division in the current school year to help pay the costs for the additional students who enrolled. The other $2.9 million needed would come from state funding.
The School Board’s resolution also proposes discussing what to do with the remaining $11.2 million in federal money during its budget process for fiscal 2012.
The School Board is hoping they will change their mind.
One has to question Ms. Bell. What plan does she have to pay for educating over 800 more students? Meanwhile, it will be interesting to see what the current BOCS does in response to the School Board resolution. Last August the BOCS got hysterical because they thought Superintendent Walts was issuing contracts to teachers without permission from them to take stimulus money. They called an emergency meeting even though Corey Stewart, Maureen Caddigan and John Jenkins were out of town.
WARNING: Temperatures this morning are in the teens. Roads are treacherous. 12/21/09 (7 am)
VDOT, our state transportation overlord with those bright orange trucks, rules supreme right now. It is they who determine who gets plowed and who doesn’t. They can be found at http://www.virginiadot.org/default_flash.asp VDOT has announced that some neighborhoods will not be plowed until Wednesday night. Wednesday night?!
The cities like Manassas and Manassas Park have their own snow removal. The county relies on VDOT and those road jockies who are out riding the trucks, plows and tractors scrapping, dropping, sprinkling , spreading and barricading us back in our driveways.
Poor Westgate has had very little plowing since Saturday during the storm. It is obvious. Entire blocks can be driven without seeing pavement. Sudley, meanwhile, has been plowed. There are a few rough spots but there are single lane paths through nearly every street. Sudley Manor and Strasburg, on the other hand, have been scraped clean. Why can’t those trucks who have made 20 trips up and down Sudley Manor Drive (yea right, snow emergency route…that’s the ticket) go over and take a few swipes at the Westgate roads that look like a white, wintery moon scape?
