BEACON for Adult Literacy will hold a free training session on Saturday, March 21, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., for adult volunteers who want to help the organization' s ESL (English as a Second Language) students.

Prince William County School officials say the board will need to identify a combination of $17.5 million in spending cuts and revenue enhancements to pay for the initial 2015-16 school budget presented during the first "public meeting" on the budget on Monday night, Feb. 23.

Prince William County Schools' scheduled Thursday night events (February 19) will take place as planned. Friday, February 20, 2015: All Prince William County Public Schools will be closed, code green for employees, due to predictions of dangerously cold temperatures.

All Prince William County Public Schools will open two hours late due to the cold, resulting ice, and other weather-related conditions.

Delegate Richard Anderson, who represents the 51st District in Prince William County, will sponsor his second Art Day at the Capitol Program on Friday, Feb. 20 from 9:30 to noon in the Fourth Floor West Conference Room at the General Assembly Building.

The Prince William County School Board meeting, originally scheduled to be held tonight, Wednesday, February 18, has been cancelled.​

I cannot tell you how often I have heard the above phrase from parents, politicians, and yes, educators themselves. Parents, usually those with formal education, like me, expressed sorrow for me during my principal era saying, "If only parents did their jobs!" My response, "Most do."

School Board Member Betty D. Covington (Potomac) will be honored soon when the Dumfries Elementary School library is dedicated. The date has not been announced.