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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.

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Metal detectors are coming to all 17 middle and 14 high schools in Prince William County.

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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.

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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.

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A local Prince William County high school, Freedom High School, was recently chosen as one of the 23 schools that the American College Application Campaign (ACAC) selected for its 2022 School Of Excellence award as part of their Virginia College Application Week program School of Excellence award On April, 3, 2023. 

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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.


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The principal at Bull Run Middle School near Gainesville, the site of an open house for a proposed data center next to Manassas National Park tomorrow, April 18, 2023, canceled the event. We first reported the event on Saturday, April 15, 2023.

Instead, the school will host an open house for parents of rising sixth-grade students. “I am not sure of the mix-up, but it is corrected,” states school principal Matthew Phythian in an email.


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Two students at Independence Nontraditional School in Prince William County now work for the school division as part of the school’s workforce education program.

In the coming weeks, nine more will join them, working in the school division’s facilities department, which oversees construction. The school division’s announcement comes during April, Workplace Readiness Month.


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