Tag: Alexandria City Public Schools

By Denise Dunbar | ddunbar@alextimes.com When Gregory Hutchings and Cheryl Carter locked eyes across the room in a Norfolk restaurant in 1999, neither could have...

By Missy Schrott | mschrott@alextimes.com Council unanimously adopted the fiscal year 2020 operating budget on May 1, maintaining the real estate tax rate for the...

By Missy Schrott | mschrott@alextimes.com The plaintiffs in the T.C. lights case filed a request for an injunction against Alexandria City Public Schools on May...

By Missy Schrott | mschrott@alextimes.com Walter Cox Densmore Jr., a George Washington High School record-breaking basketball player, died from cancer on March 15. He was...

By Missy Schrott | mschrott@alextimes.com Council held its preliminary add/delete session for the fiscal year 2020 budget on April 23. During discussion, councilors widely expressed...

By Missy Schrott | mschrott@alextimes.com City Manager Mark Jinks’ Fiscal Year 2020 proposed budget involves no real estate tax rate increase, no major service reductions...

By Jim McElhatton Sixty years ago next week, the namesake of Alexandria’s only public high school – former superintendent Thomas Chambliss “T.C.” Williams – appeared...

The new year is always a time of fresh starts and resolutions. But it is impossible to have those fresh starts and new beginnings...

By Denise Dunbar | ddunbar@alextimes.com Alexandria's T.C. Williams High School has a serious overcrowding problem. On that one point, there is total agreement between Alexandria City...

By Missy Schrott | mschrott@alextimes.com At 95 years old, Mount Vernon Community School is the eldest of ACPS’ 17 schools, and after months of heavy...