![Virginia Lottery Executive Director Paula Otto presents Osbourn Park High School civics teacher Christina Ross with a check for $2,000, awarding her as a “Super Teacher” of the year. [Uriah Kiser / Potomac Local News]](http://potomaclocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/050213-lotto-1-200x200.jpg)
Schools
Robberies Prompt Schools to Enter Safe Mode
May 23, 2013
Some schools in Lake Ridge were placed into secure the building mode today after a robbery at a shopping center.
Prince William’s SySTEMic Solutions Expanding to Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun
![Dr. Roger Ramsammy (right), provost of Northern Virginia Community College’s Manassas Campus, participates in a robotics demonstration by members of NOVA’s student robotics team. The team gave interactive demonstrations during a SySTEMic Solutions
regional launch on May 22, 2013, at Micron Technology Inc. in Manassas. [Submitted photo]](http://potomaclocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/052213-systemic-solutions-200x200.jpg)
May 23, 2013
What started out as a robotics program in Prince William County has now spread to Arlington, Fairfax, and Loudoun counties.
Antietam Elementary Hosting First Mustang Stampede
May 22, 2013
The Antietam Elementary PTA is hosting the first annual Mustang Stampede Friday May 31, 2013.
Swim Facility, Playing Fields Proposed for NOVA Woodbridge Campus
![Northern Virginia Community College's Woodbridge Campus [Photo: NOVA]](http://potomaclocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/051713-nova-campus-200x200.jpg)
May 17, 2013
The Woodbridge campus of Northern Virginia Community College, already growing with the addition of a new building, wants to grow even larger.
Gar-Field’s Bixby Chosen for Schools Associate Superintendent
May 16, 2013
Veteran PWCS administrator William G. Bixby will join the Superintendent’s staff as Associate Superintendent for Middle Schools on July 1.
Manassas Schools Honor Best & Brightest
May 16, 2013
Long drops patterned the windows of the Center for the Arts Candy Factory’s upstairs ballroom and then, satisfied, the 170 guests looked again to the stage, where Manassas Public Schools and Manassas Public Schools Education Foundation honored their best and brightest this past Saturday, May 11.
Halley Elementary School Students Rock Problem Solving
May 15, 2013
Halley Elementary School’s Advanced Academics teacher, Jennifer Weis, prepares and escorts qualifying teams of students each year to the Future Problem Solvers competition, called the Virginia State Bowl.
700 Students Expected at New ‘Haymarket Drive’ Elementary School in 2014
May 14, 2013
With the population in western Prince William County steadily on the rise, officials on Tuesday broke ground for the county’s 57th elementary school.
Prince William Schools Eliminate Mid-Term Exams
May 2, 2013
The Prince William County School Board gave their consent for county high schools to pilot a program to eliminate the long-standing practice of administering semester exams in January.
Bomb Threat Prompts Elementary School Evacuation
May 1, 2013
Students and staff are outside Henderson Elementary School this morning after someone made a bomb threat at the school.
Roman Named Rocky Run Principal
April 30, 2013
There’s a new principal at Rocky run Elementary School in Stafford County.
Woodbridge Students Perform Their Own Written Works
![[Submitted photo]](http://potomaclocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/042913-play-on-words-200x200.jpg)
April 30, 2013
For three years, Woodbridge Senior High School Center for the Fine and Performing Arts (CFPA) Creative Writing students performed self-written pieces at ‘A Play on Words’ for their friends and family.
West Gate Students Participate in ‘Project Plant It’
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April 29, 2013
On Arbor Day, April 26, the third-graders at West Gate Elementary School in Prince William County had a chance to get their hands dirty and plant some trees.
Educators Leaving City for New Jobs
April 26, 2013
Two educators are moving on from public schools in Manassas to other divisions in the state.
Prince William Schools Post 2013 Graduation Ceremony Dates
April 25, 2013
The following graduation dates, times, and locations have been announced for Prince William County Public Schools high school, summer school, practical nursing program, and adult education students.
Debating the Math on Education Funding
![A U.S. Marine for more than 20 years, Alan Roach teaches government at Potomac Middle School in Woodbridge. [Photo: Uriah Kiser / Potomac Local News]](http://potomaclocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/021412-Alan-Roach-web-200x200.jpg)
April 23, 2013
During the General Assembly’s 2013 session, state legislators debated how much to spend on public education. But has education funding been going up or down? It depends on whom you ask.
With Odds Against Him, Milde Wants Forced Vote on Stafford High School Demolition
April 18, 2013
Stafford County’s Aquia District Supervisor Paul Milde doesn’t plan on yielding on his position on renovating Stafford Senior High School rather than building a new one.
‘Oklahoma’ Hits Woodbridge High School Stage
![The cast of Woodbridge Senior High School’s production of Oklahoma. [Photo: Michele Powell]](http://potomaclocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/041713-oklahoma-cast-200x200.jpg)
April 17, 2013
Comedy, Romance, singing, dancing and a live orchestra – Woodbridge Senior High School students combined all of these talents to perform the musical ‘Oklahoma,’ on Saturday