Tag: Superintendent Larry Shifflett
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County school district seeks to recalibrate grading system
Rockingham County Public Schools unveiled its plan for a new grading policy that prioritizes grade-level performance over student progress.
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Rockingham moving toward limiting tech in classrooms
The Rockingham County School Board is aggressively pursuing a policy to limit school-sanctioned technology use for kids during the instructional day.
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Area schools look to remake standardized social studies tests
A new state law encourages school districts to step away from one-time standardized social studies tests and instead demonstrate student learning through a series of more rigorous, inquiry-based assessments given throughout the year.
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McGaheysville Elementary to get $15.6 million upgrade and expansion
The next capital project is officially in the pipeline for Rockingham County schools, as the school board approved a nearly $15.6 million contract to begin updating and expanding McGaheysville Elementary School.
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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.
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.
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.
In the county, student conduct violations decline; Students petition for longer lunch periods
Most student conduct violations in Rockingham County public schools are declining.
