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Public weighs in on candidates for open school board seat appointment
The Harrisonburg City School Board moved further along Tuesday in selecting which one of three candidates should fill the vacant seat left by its former chair Nick Swayne as board members invited residents to offer their input.
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U.S. Secretary of Education stops at city public schools during weeklong tour
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona visited Bluestone Elementary School in Harrisonburg on Tuesday as part of a multi-state, weeklong bus trip called the “Road To Success Back To School Bus Tour.”
In a group job interview, school board asks candidates to outline priorities and views
Two former school board members and one newcomer fielded questions from the Harrisonburg City Public Schools’ board Tuesday as each made a case for being the one to fill the seat of Nick Swayne, who resigned last month after taking a job in Idaho.
Swayne’s resignation sets up interim appointment to school board; Virginia sends district $2.5 million in construction funds
Nick Swayne, the longtime city school board member who had been the board’s chairman, officially resigned, setting off a chain of events to fill his seat until a special election in November 2023.
Nick Swayne, city’s school board chair and JMU X-Labs director, to leave Hburg to become college president in Idaho
Nick Swayne, the chair of the Harrisonburg School Board and founding director of JMU X-Labs at James Madison University, will become president of North Idaho College and will leave Harrisonburg in August. The departure will create voids in the technical and entrepreneurial spaces at JMU, as well as on the school board.
School budget cuts were ‘painful’ but preserved pay raises
Harrisonburg City Public Schools will forgo hiring 12 new positions and will dissolve or delay several programs to make up for a $1.17 million reduction in funding from the state’s final budget.
U.S. school shootings prompt discussion about security changes at Harrisonburg schools
A new digital mapping technology could help Harrisonburg City Public Schools prepare and respond in the event of an emergency.
