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PHSAA accepting applications for kindergarten, 3rd and 5th grades

Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts, a Richmond Public School, will be reopening kindergarten, third and fifth grades for additional enrollment spots.

Interested families can visit the PHSSA website at www.patrickhenrycharter.org to download an application or can stop by the school at Woodland Heights Baptist Church – Education Center, 611 West 31st Street, Richmond, to pick up an application.  Families will need to complete the application and mail it or drop it off at the school during the hours of 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Meeting tonight on new middle school in Church Hill

You can find out the latest on Richmond's construction of a new middle school Thursday night.

The school system will host a community meeting to share the construction schedule for the new Martin Luther King middle school.

It's one of four new schools the city is building over the next several years.

Tonight's meeting is  from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the current Martin Luther King middle on 1000 Mosby Street in Church Hill.

 

Vote VCU for "Best Upset" ESPY

Councilman Hilbert challenges all citizens, officials and companies in Richmond area to Vote Online Now for VCU to win ESPN “ESPY” Award.

Hilbert urges everyone to act fast because voting ends on July 9, 2011. The vote is for VCU to win the category of “Best Upset” for their 2011 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament win over the University of Kansas (1st seed), on March 27, 2011 (score 71-61), which placed the 11th seed VCU Men’s Basketball Team in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four Tournament for the first time.

The Voting process includes the following:

VCU construction to satisfy university needs and goals

Kate Sandy’s daughter will begin this fall as a VCU freshman living in a dorm. Sandy and her daughter live in the area and are looking into the possibility of commuting come next year, but with VCU’s most recent bout of construction, it may not be necessary... Read More

Richmond Public Schools Summer Feeding Sites

The Richmond Public Schools is participating in the Summer Food Service Program. Meals will be provided to all children without charge and are the same for all children regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service. Meals will be provided at the sites and times as follows:

Everyone wins at the Annual Robotics Competition

The Annual Robotics Competition wrapped up recently at the Stuart C. Siegel Center and although everybody didn't win, everybody really did win. Gene Cox shows you how.

The Siegel Center hummed with creative minds. Teenagers from 64 area schools brought their robots to show, and because they're robots there was a lot of fine tuning to be done to make things work. These gizmos don't look like the humanoid robots seen in the movies, but they perform on demand, doing exactly what their creators designed them to do.

These are all very bright students. They know how to imagine things and make them work. So, who won the competition? Well, they all did. That's the point.

Reduced-cost housing, mentorship attract urban teaching candidates

A federally-funded program to boost student achievement in urban classrooms in Richmond will conduct an intensive selection process for its first cohort of 20 teacher residents April 9 from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Elkhardt Middle School, 6300 Hull Street, Richmond, Va.

Over 100 people seeking to enter the teaching profession through the new Richmond Teacher Residency program, which offers reduced cost housing and extended mentorship in exchange for a three-year commitment to teach middle and high school math, science, English, or social science/history in Richmond Public Schools.

Those who complete the year-long residency program will receive a Master of Teaching degree from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Education.

VCU was awarded a five-year, $5.8 million grant from the U.S.