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Speak Easy podcast features ACPS teacher Heather Rosner

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] This month’s guest on Speak Easy, the Alexandria Times podcast, is Heather Rosner, band teacher at George Mason Elementary School. Rosner...

Our View: Should affordable housing be built on school property?

It’s well documented that Alexandria’s supply of affordable housing has declined dramatically during the past 20 years. The downside of a growing city with...

City considers adding affordable housing to Douglas MacArthur

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] Members of the MacArthur Advisory Committee and the community were left scrambling last week after the city indicated it would...

School board approves 10-year plan

By Missy Schrott | [email protected] The Alexandria School Board approved a $530.7 million 10-year Capital Improvement Program budget at a meeting on Dec. 19. The plan...

Alexandria student Naomi Wadler makes headlines for March for Our Lives...

By Alexa Epitropoulos | [email protected] An 11-year-old Alexandria resident and George Mason Elementary School fifth grade student made national news for her speech at March for...

Local students participate in National Walkout Day

By Alexa Epitropoulos | [email protected] Fifth grade students at George Mason Elementary School participated in the National Walkout Day protest against gun violence at 10...

New director named for Alexandria Tutoring Consortium

By Denise Dunbar | [email protected] Lisa Jacobs has been named program director of the Alexandria Tutoring Consortium, an organization that works to help struggling readers, the...

ACPS appoints interim superintendent

By Alexa Epitropoulos | [email protected]  As outgoing Superintendent Alvin Crawley's departure date nears, Alexandria City Public Schools has appointed a new face to lead the...