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‘We put the cart before the horse’: County school board members offer mixed feelings as they wrap up banned book reviews

After stripping 50 books from the shelves of county schools and preemptively banning seven more in January 2024, the Rockingham County School Board completed its review by voting on the fate of the final six titles Monday night.

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County board can’t quite settle on chaperone policy for field trips

The Rockingham County School Board delayed a vote to adopt a new overnight field trip policy in hopes of hammering out details and providing assurances to teachers and parents.

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Amid questions about Massanutten Technical Center’s funding, county moves ahead with plans for new complex

Rockingham County officials have agreed to move forward with plans to build a new Massanutten Technical Center. However, they are still ironing out who will build the facility and how.

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City and county school boards’ divorce sends them in different directions for future technical and career education

In the wake of the Harrisonburg School Board’s decision Tuesday to end its six-decade partnership with the Rockingham County School Board in operating the Massanutten Technical Center, plans are underway to provide those vocational courses and opportunities to city school students. 

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Hilary Irons emphasizes bringing ‘professionalism, respect, humility’ to 3rd District school board seat

For the second time in four years, Hilary Irons is running against Matt Cross for Rockingham County’s school board in the 3rd District — although a rematch wasn’t always the plan for Irons. 

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After months of fighting with the county, city school board votes to end its involvement with Massanutten Technical Center

The Harrisonburg City School Board voted Tuesday night to end a nearly six-decade partnership with the Rockingham County School Board to jointly operate the area’s vocational and professional school.

In seeking re-election, Matt Cross describes first term on board as doing ‘what was right in the eyes of God’

Matt Cross, the incumbent Rockingham County School Board member from District 3, has spent his term championing policies that he says are morally correct, some of which have fueled public debate and, at times, controversy.

County school board’s Matt Cross gets slapped with campaign fines, lands second chance for GOP endorsement

While July is usually quieter for election candidates, Rockingham County School Board member Matt Cross — who’s running for re-election this fall — has had month by landing a second chance at landing a key endorsement and having to pay a state fine for a not filing his campaign fundraising reports on time. 

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