Prince William County Public Schools honored its top teachers and principals of 2023.
Hundreds gathered on Wednesday, May 10, for the annual Outstanding Educators awards ceremony at the Hylton Performing Arts Center outside Manassas. The evening began with a reception and then a ceremony honoring teachers and principals in primary and secondary education.
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Parents of kindergartners gathered at The Nokesville School at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 9, for a special meeting after a parent claimed a child at the school was choked on the school playground.
Principal Dr. Andy Jacks wrote a letter to parents stating a kindergarten teacher resigned, forcing the school to place children in four other classes, increasing the class size to about 30 per class. Jacks says he's looking for a new teacher to replace the one who he hired recently to create a new kindergarten class.
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The after the Prince William County School Board approved a $10 million program to install metal detectors at some schools, county police reported someone brought a gun to a school in Woodbridge.
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The Prince William County School Board voted to install metal detectors in all middle, high, and non-traditional schools during its meeting Wednesday, May 3, 2023.
The $10 million project to install Evolv scanners at three entrances in each school and additional scanners at high school football stadiums. Superintendent Dr. LaTanya McDade said the scanners would improve security at April 19, 2023, school board meeting.
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Prince William Committee of 100 plans to host a school safety program on April 25, 2023. It will occur at Brittany's Restaurant & Sports Pub at 12449 Dillingham Square, in Woodbridge.
The program will start at 6 p.m. and end at 8 p.m. The cost for members will be $35, and for non-members, it will be $40.
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A high school in Woodbridge will be honored as one of only two high schools in Virginia to win the U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Award.
Freedom High School, at 15201 Neabsco Mills Road, was selected based on achievement in reduced environmental impact and costs, improved health and wellness, and environmental and sustainability education.
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Metal detectors are coming to all 17 middle and 14 high schools in Prince William County.
County Schools Superintendent Dr. LaTanya McDade announced the $10 million project to install Evolv scanners at three entrances in each school and additional scanners at high school football stadiums, announced during an April 19, 2023, school board meeting.
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On April 3, 2023, Freedom High School was chosen as one of the 23 schools that the American College Application Campaign (ACAC) selected for its School Of Excellence award. The award was part of their Virginia College Application Week program.
ACAC's award recognizes schools that contributed to its mission, increasing the number of First-Generate College Students from low-income families.
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However, as we reported Monday, April 17, a Prince William County school said the school was double booked with the town hall meeting and a back-to-school night for parents of rising 6th-grade students.
The school had inadvertently double-booked the schedule (human error). The organization is looking to find another location to host the meeting and that information will be shared once confirmed.
— Prince William County Public Schools spokeswoman Diana Gulotta statement to PLN
Residents opposed to more data centers had planned a demonstration outside the school before the event began.
In a statement to PLN following our story about the cancelation, QTS spokesman Nick DeSarno said it’s working to reschedule the event, that the firm had the event on the books since late last month, and only learned of the back-to-school night on the day before its scheduled event.
“QTS Data Centers was today notified by Bull Run Middle School that a conflicting event at the school would necessitate the cancelation of QTS’ open house despite school officials last week confirming the QTS event. As a result, QTS is working to reschedule the event to provide the Prince William community with important information about the PW Digital Gateway project and its many benefits to the county,” said DeSarno.
The April 18 QTS Open House event had been planned since late March. Throughout the planning process, QTS Data Centers (QTS) was never notified of another event scheduled for the same day or anything that may disrupt QTS’ Open House event. The following timeline lays out the planning of the event, coordination with Bull Run Middle School staff, and the subsequent cancellation of the event.
- March 30, 2023: On March 30, QTS submitted a request to hold the event via the school’s automated scheduling system, Community Use.
- April 3, 2023: On April 3, QTS received confirmation the event had been approved. Following confirmation, QTS coordinated with Bull Run Middle School staff to arrange a tour of the school and specifics of the event.
- April 13, 2023: On April 13, QTS toured the school and confirmed the logistics of the event with school staff.
- April 17, 2023: The morning of April 17, QTS received a notification from the Community Use scheduling system that the event had been canceled. That same day, the school calendar was updated with the event entitled, “Rising 6th?Grade Information Night,” scheduled for Tuesday, April 18.
The data proposed data center would sit on some of the more than 800 acres earmarked by the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, approved last year, for Prince William Digital Gateway.
Residents opposed to more data centers in Prince William County, on track to eclipse neighboring Loudoun County for the most in the world, were planning a press conference to oppose the project “The attitude of Prince William County residents, and our message to QTS, is simple and concise: go away. We are not buying their insincere overtures to placate us while they concurrently plot to destroy us,” they noted in a press release.
QTS already operates at least one data center in Prince William County, next to the George Mason University Science and Technology Campus near Manassas.
In November 2022, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors amended its comprehensive plan to allow 27 million square feet of data center space next to the national battlefield park, the site of two major Civil War battles, a national tourism destination.
