Talented choir students and musical directors won Battlefield and Forest Park High Schools coveted invitations to perform for the Virginia Music Educators Association at the group's annual convention Nov. 17.

Five PWCS students impressed the audition panel for the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) National Honors Choirs to earn invitations to perform at the ACDA convention in Minneapolis in March 2017.

The Nov. 4 interruption of Prince William County Schools' internet connectivity has resulted in a change to the first quarter report card distribution plan.

Theatre productions from two Prince William County high schools and three county middle schools recently won awards at the theatre festival. Six students were also individually received awards.

Eleanor Wren Sigrest, and eighth grader at Benton Middle School in Prince William County, VA, won the Broadcom MASTERS, a national middle school STEM competition, and a $25,000 prize for STEM Leadership and Innovation.

For a fourth consecutive year, Virginia has earned the highest possible rating from the U.S. Department of Education for compliance with the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

Some Prince William County School Board members will head to Williamsburg to participate in the Virginia School Boards Association Annual Convention Nov. 16-18. Seminar topics range from school operations and instructional innovations to legislative issues and community engagement.

For some students, it was Korean pop music and Korean dramas they found on websites that drew them into new Korean classes at Hylton High School; for others, it was Teacher Kyung Mi Kay Choi, who also teaches French in Hylton’s Center for International Studies and Languages. She has been teaching French at Hylton since 2006 and Korean since 2015.