Category archives for: Education

Schools Now Selling Ads on Websites

Frederick County Public Schools is making a limited amount of advertising space available on its redesigned school websites.  The advertising space is available on the school division’s homepage, each individual school homepage and the athletic Web pages for James Wood, Millbrook and Sherando High Schools. Coordinator of Policy, Records Management and Communications Steve Edwards says, [...]

Frederick County Public Schools Launch Redesigned Websites

Frederick County Public Schools has unveiled a new look for the division’s website and each individual school website.  Although the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for Frederick County Public Schools (www.frederick.k12.va.us) and each of the division’s schools remain unchanged, each of the websites has been redesigned and streamlined to make it easier to navigate. Frederick County [...]

Shenandoah University Launches Feasability Study for School of Medicine

 Winchester, Va. (December 22, 2011) – Shenandoah University has hired PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the consultant on a feasibility study for a School of Medicine. The company has begun the first of two phases in the study, and is currently interviewing key stakeholders and stakeholder groups regarding issues integral to the medical school, as well as [...]

Frederick County Students Recognized by the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program

Seven Frederick County Public Schools’ students have been named Commended Students in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program. The Commended Students include James Wood High School senior Emily Blase; Millbrook High School seniors Lydia Steele, Ryan Duffin and Zachary Hurst; and Sherando High School seniors Deepak De, Timothy Smart and Joseph Switzer. According to the [...]

42 FCPS Students Named AP Scholars, Including Two National AP Scholars

The College Board has recognized 42 Frederick County Public Schools students with AP Scholar Awards for their exceptional achievement on the college-level Advanced Placement (AP) exams. According to the College Board, about 20 percent of the nearly 1.94 million high school students worldwide who took the AP exams in May performed at a sufficiently high [...]

Shenandoah University Nursing Alumna Receives Prestigious Clinical Practice Award

Shenandoah University nursing alumna Lisa Cantore ’04, BSN, MSN PNP-C APRN received a Virginia Magnate Consortium Award for Clinical Practice in Nursing on Sept. 24 at the Virginia Nurses Association Gala “Celebrating Nursing Excellence” in Richmond, Va Reston Hospital Center Director of Hospital Education and Magnate Program Director Mary Ganger, RN, MSHS (left) presents Shenandoah [...]

Silent Protest Against Abortion Scheduled on College Campuses

Tens of Thousands of young people across the country will sacrifice their voices tomorrow for the Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity, and they will do it in honor and memory of a young abortion abolitionist and her unborn daughter who were killed in a car accident Oct. 8 in Georgia. “Tomorrow, students will be sending [...]

Frederick County Schools Launch Web-based Program for Facility Use Requests

On Tuesday, October 11, Frederick County Public Schools will launch a new web-based program to manage requests to use school facilities. The new CommunityUse program will enable community groups to make their requests to use school facilities directly online. Frederick County Public Schools Coordinator of Construction and Facilities Use Steve Kapocsi says, “The implementation of [...]

Frederick County Schools to Celebrate National School Lunch Week

Frederick County Public Schools will be celebrating National School Lunch Week October 10-14. As part of the celebration, parents are invited to join their children for lunch at school. National School Lunch Week was created in 1962 by President John F. Kennedy and is celebrated nationwide with events and activities promoting the benefits of the [...]

Randolph-Macon Academy Re-Opens Melton Memorial Gymnasium

Randolph-Macon Academy will hold a reopening ceremony for Melton Memorial Gymnasium on October 15, 2011 at 1 pm, during the height of the Academy’s 2011 Homecoming festivities. During the last year, Melton Gym has undergone some extensive renovations. Local graduates and their families, as well as members of the media who have attended past graduations, [...]

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