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Accidents, bad luck and TikTok have led to damaged school laptops

The city school board is wrestling with a growing problem of damage to school-issued Google Chromebooks. And a social media trend isn’t helping.

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Virginia budget delivers for city schools but federal funding remains a question mark

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City schools say the law is on their side and won’t pull back from technical school’s board

Harrisonburg City School Board members declared Thursday night that they were digging in and will not reduce their say in governing Massanutten Technical Center, which the city oversees along with the county’s school board.

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County school system wants more say over Massanutten Technical Center

The Rockingham County School System signaled a move on Wednesday toward taking greater control over the Massanutten Technical Center — the professional and technical school that the county and Harrisonburg City Public School district share.

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Students from Vine Street to move to Bluestone Elementary as a way to ease overcrowding at Waterman

Harrisonburg City Public Schools will relocate nearly 80 students to Bluestone Elementary under a redistricting plan the school board approved to ease overcrowding at Waterman Elementary. 

To ease elementary school overcrowding, school board looks to move about 80 students

The Harrisonburg City School Board is considering redistricting nearly 80 students to alleviate overcrowding in the city’s schools. The potential move came up during the board’s work session Thursday evening as part of the ongoing discussion around targeted rezoning. Superintendent Michael Richards said most of Harrisonburg’s elementary schools are over capacity.

Community Perspective: Trump’s Executive Order puts kids in danger

A contributed perspectives piece by Cara Walton “Imprinting anti-American, subversive, harmful, and false ideologies on our Nation’s children.” That is what Donald Trump accused teachers of recently. I have an ongoing joke where I take photos of my class agenda for the day, saying that I’m performing “Marxist indoctrination.” And then show a perfectly normal …

‘Reckless and unacceptable’: City school leaders object to White House’s accusation of ‘indoctrination’

Harrisonburg City Public Schools officials are pushing back after the White House cited the district as an example of “indoctrination” of children.

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