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Parents: Meet Your School Board Rep

Fifth District School Board representative, Maurice Henderson, has agreed to meet with constituents on Friday, October 8th at 5pm at Clark Springs Elementary. This meeting started small, with just a few parents and interested citizens voicing interest in a discussion of the changing elementary school options in the area, but it is open to the [...]

Maymont’s Playground Has Vanished

The Maymont Elementary School playground has been removed. During a weekend when another playground was found burned, this has to be considered suspicious. Two substantial leads and several more pictures after the jump.

Podium Live! puts high school literary talent on display

Richmond Public Schools high school students will be part of Podium Live!, a free performance and staged reading of the Podium Journal: Volume 2 at Dogwood Dell on Sunday, June 13 starting at 8PM. Come out and pick up your copy of the 2010 Podium Journal before it’s distributed in libraries, grocery stores, and bookstores [...]

Maymont Students Moving to Clark Springs?

The Fan of the Fan community blog is reporting ongoing developments concerning the future of Maymont Elementary School: Superintendent of schools, Yvonne Brandon will make a recommendation at Monday’s school board meeting to consolidate the Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI) programs of Fox, Mary Munford, Cary, Maymont and Clark Springs Elementary into one school to be [...]

You are going to have a great year!

Patience Salgado over at Kindness Girl has a great idea: Meet me and other Guerrilla Goodness lovers in front of the Carillon (Bryd Park) at 3:00 pm on September 7th! Here’s how it works: 1. I will pass out addresses to city schools and sidewalk chalk. 2. You head out with friends, family, kids, dogs, [...]

Local Schools Make the Grade

Recently, the Virginia Department of Education released their Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) statistics.  RVANews has a convenient rundown of these stats with some further analysis.  The four schools that are fed by the Byrd Park neighborhood all received passing scores: Maymont Elementary:  Made AYP John B. Cary Elementary:  Made AYP Bindford Model School:  Made AYP [...]