A plan to replace the demolished Dove Court public-housing complex in Richmond’s Highland Park neighborhood with a larger, mixed-income community and possibly a new Overby-Sheppard Elementary School is being advanced by the city’s housing authority and a North Carolina-based development firm.
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The Capital Region Collaborative is looking at a wide range of priorities from education and social services to transportation and economic development, but nothing is more central to the vision of the region’s future than creating a quality of life that keeps young people here and draws them from afar.
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For the first time, every school in the division received full accreditation from the Virginia Department of Education.
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The superintendent and the School Board chairwoman Monday announced an ambitious, nearly yearlong plan to solicit ideas on improving public education in the city. They want to hear from anyone who wants to participate, whether they have an active stake in the school system or not.
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Yesterday, Judge Richard B. Campbell of Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court certified felony child neglect charges against Alvin D. Matthews, a substitute bus driver, and Irene Jenkins, the bus monitor. The case was sent to the October grand jury over the objections of their lawyers, who argued there was no evidence of intent or willful negligence.
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The school district has spent $30,000 to outfit nearly 200 buses in its fleet with Child Reminder Systems.
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Two years ago, the School Board included $10.5 million in its budget for the new building. Several months later, incoming Mayor Dwight C. Jones said finding the school a permanent home was one of his top priorities. Last November, then-School Board Chairwoman Chandra Smith sent the company a letter saying the board had “voted to affirm its intent and support for the establishment of a permanent facility.”Less than a year later, that building is off the table.
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The foundation was established in 2001 but barely was active in recent years, securing contributions and grants totaling about $10,000 or less each year from 2005 to 2007, according to the group’s 2008 federal tax form — the most recent available. The total exceeded $188,000 in 2008. By comparison, the Chesterfield Public Education Foundation reported raising nearly twice as much in the same year. timesdispatch.com
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While presenting to the board a 31-page document of the costs associated with the plan, Johns said repeatedly that the way the deal has been handled — particularly the continued tinkering with terms in sessions that are closed to the public, records of which were not available to her — made it hard, if not impossible, to accurately track expenditures. timesdispatch.com
