Tag: school resource officers

High school SROs put on leave amid investigation

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] The two school resource officers at Alexandria City High School were put on leave on Dec. 16 after a “serious...

Your Views: Public debate, private scheming

To the editor: After City Council voted to restore school resource officers on Oct. 12, we submitted a Freedom of Information Act request related...

School Board discusses equity audit policy

By Olivia Anderson | [email protected] The Alexandria School Board discussed an equity audit policy revision overview at its Dec. 2 meeting, which related specifically to student...

About Alexandria by Mark Eaton: A few words of advice to...

Congratulations to the three returning and six new members of Alexandria’s School Board who take office on Jan. 1, 2022, at an intense time...

Our View: Toothless Sunshine Law

Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act was created to prevent elected officials from gathering together out of the public eye and making policy without citizen...

Sunshine Law: A closer look

By Olivia Anderson | [email protected] The Alexandria Times received FOIAed documents earlier this month consisting of text and email exchanges between four City Council members who...

Your Views: A Dem for Darryl

To the editor: As Alexandria voters head to the polls for Election Day on Nov. 2, I hope you will join me, and other Democrats,...

Your Views: Aguirre, Chapman must go

To the editor: No doubt, City Councilor Canek Aguirre has done noble things in his life to help vulnerable people, mostly Hispanic immigrants. But...

Your Views: Respecting boundaries and the rights of parents

To the editor: If you’re a parent in Alexandria, you must wonder what rights you have left to guide your children’s education. You also...

Your Views: SROs do not make schools safer

To the editor: Racial Justice Alexandria is a multi-racial, multi-generational abolitionist collective of individuals and groups working to implement the Movement for Black Lives...