Battlefield High School will host a conversation March 17 for parents and students on recovering from difficult events that take a serious toll.

C. D. Hylton High School mathematics teacher Lauren Anne Wilson is the seventh PWCS educator to win the prestigious Milken Educator Award. The national recognition honors her exceptional teaching ability, dedication to her students, and leadership in her school and community. At a schoolwide assembly on March 3 Wilson was surprised when she received the Milken Educator Award and $25,000 from Milken Family Foundation Co-Founder Michael Milken.

Prince William County elected officials, Northern Virginia Community College representatives and community leaders helped cut a ribbon March 2 to open the Regional Center for Workforce Education and Training at the community college's Woodbridge Campus.

Michael “Buddy” Lint, New Dominion Alternative Center Principal, has been named Prince William County Public Schools Principal of the Year! He was selected from among three principals nominated for the prestigious award. As the recipient of the School Division award, he now becomes a finalist in The Washington Post Principal of the Year recognition program. The Post will announce its winner in April.

New “Ferlazzo” site school will be Kyle R. Wilson Elementary. Current Godwin Middle School will be renamed the Dr. George M. Hampton Middle School.

Longtime Northern Virginia Community College professor William Woodard has returned to the area after spending the fall 2015 semester teaching English in the applied linguistics master’s degree program at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago through a grant from the Fulbright program, the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government.

Need some help preparing for the General Educational Development Test (GED Test) or learning to speak English? Come study with adults like you to achieve your career and life goals. PWCS adult education classes begin the week of March 29.

Prince William County Schools joins our community in grieving the tragic loss of Officer Ashley Guindon, and hoping for the speedy recovery of Officers Jesse Hempen and David McKeown.