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County school board wants an outside view of 5-year plan, delays vote until 2025
Rockingham County School Board will delay voting on its comprehensive plan for 2024-29 until the new year. That’s not a reflection of uncertainty or something that needs to change, vice chair Sara Horst said at Monday’s meeting, but a way to dot all their I’s and cross all their T’s.
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RCPS pushes back on threats; Board bans 9th book, and district removes world religions from 4th grade reading
A 14-year-old student posted threats on social media aimed at Broadway High School, J. Frank Hillyard Middle School and Plains Elementary School last week, and while it was determined to be a hoax with no intent to follow through, superintendent Larry Shifflett said the Rockingham County School Board will come down hard on threats of violence.
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Seven more books banned from Rockingham Co. schools
The Rockingham County School Board voted Monday to permanently ban seven books from its library shelves, despite five of them being recommended by the district’s Content Review Committee to be kept in schools.
Rockingham Co. school board debates further restriction on student cell phone use, bans romantic fantasy fiction book
One book temporarily banned by the Rockingham County School Board earlier this year won’t return to library shelves. In its review of the list of 57 titles, this is the first time the school board has voted to permanently remove one.
RCPS board opts to leave Virginia School Board Assoc. for more conservative group
The Rockingham County School Board will leave the well-established Virginia School Boards Association in favor of a newer, more conservative group.
A half-dozen temporarily banned books return to circulation in Rockingham Co. Schools
The Rockingham County School Board returned six more books to library and classroom shelves following their temporary removal earlier this year — but not without dissent from the board member who compiled the list of books to review.
With schools’ book selection policies already in place, librarians tell board that a county-wide approach is too broad
Rockingham County school librarians told the school board Tuesday that established policies they crafted already give parents control over content their children can access, while also being flexible to serve the needs of diverse populations of students.
Rockingham school board deviates from its own book challenge process with temporary ban
In the days after the newly instated Rockingham County Board of Education made two decisions Monday, many teachers, parents and students found themselves in the crosshairs of culture wars, as teachers are now required to remove certain books and report student nicknames.
