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Chesterfield school bus driver wins title as Best in Virginia

Submitted by Anonymous on Monday, June 27th, 12:04 pm
Chesterfield school bus driver wins title as Best in Virginia

For the second year in a row, Leslie Alderman has won the title as Virginia’s best school bus driver.

She won the conventional school bus category in the statewide Road-e-o June 23 and will represent Virginia and Chesterfield County Public Schools during national competition July 16-17 in Baltimore.

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Bensley Elementary Student Wins Essay Contest

Submitted by Anonymous on Friday, June 17th, 7:36 am
Bensley Elementary Student Wins Essay Contest

          Kayla Shefond Harris, a fifth-grader at Bensley Elementary School, is the grand-prize winner of the annual essay contest for Older American’s Month. Kayla was recognized for her winning essay during the May 25 Board of Supervisors meeting where she received a plaque and a $25 savings bond.
          The contest, which gives students in grades 4-5 the opportunity to acknowledge an older adult who has had a positive impact on their lives, was open to all Chesterfield County Public School students. READ MORE

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Chesterfield County School Board to meet June 6

Submitted by Anonymous on Thursday, June 2nd, 3:51 pm

The Chesterfield County School Board will meet 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 6 at Virginia State University in the L. Douglas Wilder Building on Mathews-Jefferson Drive. Topics of the retreat include governance, decision making and accountability.

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What Parents Want Award

Submitted by Anonymous on Sunday, May 22nd, 3:58 am

For the 19th time, Chesterfield County Public Schools has been recognized as having what parents want in a school system. Just 16 percent of the country’s 15,571 public school systems won a 2011 What Parents Want Award from SchoolMatch.

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More than 890 students graduating from JTCC

Submitted by Iva Petrosino, Community Web Producer
Friday, May 13th, 2011, 4:36pm

John Tyler Community College’s class of 2011 includes more than 890 students.

For each student, the road to graduation has been a personal journey, one taken with the guidance and support of family, friends, faculty and staff. There is Ashley White, who went from being a 7th grade dropout to an honor society member and a student leader. There is Jonathan Turman who started at John Tyler while in high school and gone on to become one of the first to graduate from the College’s engineering program. And, there’s Elizabeth Holmes, a mother of three whose determination to overcome obstacles in life helped her prove that you can come back to finish what you started. These are just a few of the inspirational stories that make up the class of 2011.

To watch a video featuring White, Turman, Holmes and other graduates, visit www.jtcc.edu/2011mediakit.

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Chesterfield students get $5,000 in scholarships

Submitted by Iva Petrosino, Community Web Producer
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011, 2:45pm

DuPont Fibers Federal Credit Union awarded two $2,500 Ruby A. Robinson Scholarships to deserving young members for academic achievement. The two recipients are Megan Reichert and Eric Johnston. 

Megan Reichert attends Midlothian High School and will be attending the University of Virginia. 

Eric Johnston attends the Chesterfield County Mathematics & Science High School at Clover Hill and will be attending the University of Virginia to study Engineering.

The Credit Union’s scholarships have been designed to commemorate the 30 years Ruby A. Robinson dedicated to the Credit Union as one of the first employees. The Credit Union has awarded a total of $124,000 since the program started in 1993.

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The Bible in the Public Schools?

Submitted by Iva Petrosino, Community Web Producer
Friday, February 25th, 2011, 1:53pm

Chesterfield County recently voted to adopt The Bible and Its Influence as the textbook for a high-school elective class on the Bible.  In Odessa, Texas, a Bible elective, and the lawsuit that challenged it garnered national headlines.  The case was settled out of court when the Odessa School District agreed to drop the curriculum.  Has Chesterfield chosen a better curriculum?  How does a school district teach the Bible and stay within the limits of the Constitution?  Do teachers need special preparation to teach the Bible?  What are students expected to learn in a class that addresses the Bible? 

A panel of nationally recognized experts will debate these hot-button issues:

  • Rebecca K. Glenberg, legal director at the Virginia American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
  • Eric Kniffen, legal counsel at The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty in Washington, DC
  • Kent Richards, Executive Director Emeritus of the Society for Biblical Literature, the nation’s largest scholarly organization for Bible experts, headquartered at the Luce Center, Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

A community panel comprised of educators, parents and faith leaders will ask questions.

The debate, on Sunday, March 6, 2011, 3:00-4:30 p.m. in the Virginia Commonwealth University Student Commons Theater at 907 Floyd Avenue, is free and open to the public.

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