Left Behind? None of Alexandria’s schools meet federal standards for students with disabilities.
A GAZETTE PACKET investigation of standardized test scores in Alexandria found that none of the schools in Alexandria met the federal standard for special-education students last year. Yet because a class size of 50 students is required to calculate adequate yearly progress under the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act, none of these schools were punished for failing to achieve the annual measurable objective of a 73 percent pass rate for students with disabilities. That means seven Alexandria elementary schools were designated as meeting federal standards even though their special-education students did not achieve the minimum testing standards. Read More ....
Trading T.C. for State Kerry Donley to resign as athletic director and campaign for House of Delegates.
AFTER SPENDING three years as athletic director at T.C. Williams High School, former Mayor Kerry Donley confirmed this week that he will step down from his current job at the end of June to launch campaign for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates in 2009. Donley, a former chairman of the Virginia Democratic Party, will return to his old job as vice president at Virginia Commerce Bank. The former mayor said that he has enjoyed his time as athletic director, but he feels that his abilities would be better suited to filling the seat vacated by Del. Brian Moran (D-46), who plans to launch a campaign for governor this summer. Read More ....
AT THE PRESENT time, there are only 51 LEED platinum certified buildings in the world. Forty five of those are in the United States, two in the local area — The Chesapeake Bay Foundation Headquarters in Annapolis, Md., and Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., according to Greenwood. One of the most notable green buildings in the architectural firm's portfolio, the Terraset School in Fairfax County, is primarily designed as an underground structure. Read More ...
Left Behind? 
AFTER SPENDING three years as 
AT THE PRESENT time, there are only 51 LEED platinum certified buildings in the world. Forty five of those are in the United States, two in the local area — The Chesapeake Bay Foundation Headquarters in Annapolis, Md., and Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., according to Greenwood. One of the most notable green buildings in the architectural firm's portfolio, the Terraset School in Fairfax County, is primarily designed as an underground structure. 
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