he PWCS Office of Special Education Parent Resource Center is hosting evening workshops for parents, educators, and community members on the special education process.

Community volunteers and/or parents or legal guardians of a student who attends Nokesville, Bennett, or Loch Lomond Elementary School or Stonewall, Parkside, or Marsteller Middle School are wanted for the “Nokesville K-8” School Boundary Planning Committee. Weekly meetings start in November.

Prince William County School Board is asking for name suggestions by Dec. 1 for the “Haymarket Drive Elementary School” being built in Haymarket and the “Nokesville K-8”school under construction in Nokesville. Both are set to open in Fall 2014.

Manassas School Board has joined with 50+ school boards across Virginia in opposing legislation passed by the 2013 General Assembly, which forms a new state school division to take control of failing public schools throughout the Commonwealth and the money the local division receives for the school.

Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores for college-bound seniors in Prince William County Public Schools rose eight points from the previous year, in results reported by The College Board, according to PWCS community relations office.

Woodbridge VA High School officials are requesting that the media respect their request to stay off the school campus when reporting on the homicide involving Kenny Diaz, a member of the Woodbridge Viking football team.

All staff and students returned to Elizabeth Vaughan Elementary School in Woodbridge VA after a brief evacuation following a false fire alarm around noon on Monday, Sept. 16, according to Irene Cromer, Supervisor of Community Relations for Prince William County public schools.

Elizabeth Vaughan Elementary School in Woodbridge VA was evacuated as a precaution around noon on Monday, Sept. 16, due to a fire alarm signal.