benefitsFOCUS: Your pay statements may look a little different in 2024!

In an effort toward business efficiency, we’ve streamlined some behind the scenes benefits coding that will simplify the description of employee premium deductions and employer contributions that you see on your pay statements. These changes apply to medical, dental, and voluntary vision coverage. Starting this week, you will no longer see coding that refers to […]

Join acac in December & Receive a $50 acac Gift Card!

acac Fitness and Wellness Centers offer a variety of programs to meet your fitness needs through fun and healthy activities for everyone. acac is not just a gym, but a community of support with over 300 weekly group classes, personal training opportunities, aquatic programs, nutrition services, and much more. Albemarle County Public Schools employees qualify […]

Your ACPS HR: What Is an HR Business Partner?

This article is the second in a series about the new Albemarle County Public Schools Human Resources Department. The restructuring effort has prioritized Human Resources’ ability to meet its mission to recruit, retain, and develop employees to ensure Learning for All. HR’s mission helps ensure that the strategic plan can be realized and that every […]

VCU Reading Specialist Cohort Beginning This Fall: Complete Our Interest Form by March 17

Beginning in the 2024-25 school year, the Virginia Literacy Act requires school divisions to employ endorsed reading specialists in elementary schools. ACPS has expanded our staffing standard to include middle and high schools as well, such that each of our schools will be staffed with at least one reading specialist. These positions will require a […]

Superintendent Presents Draft Funding Request of $257 Million for 2023-24 School Year

Last Thursday evening, Superintendent Haas presented a needs-based and balanced funding request for the 2023-24 school year to the Albemarle County School Board. The request, totaling $257.3 million, includes an increase over the current adopted budget of nearly $10.9 million. The increase is supported by anticipated revenues that include an 8.8% increase in local funding […]

Rollout of Self-Serve Options in ADP Postponed

The planned expansion of self-serve options in the ADP Employee Portal, including reviewing benefits elections and requesting changes to benefits enrollments in conjunction with a mid-year Qualifying Life Event, will not occur on Monday, October 17, as previously announced. Following the transfer of employee data from Great Plains (our former system for tracking employee information) […]

Schoology: End-of-Year Info

Secondary Teachers: As we approach the end of the school year, here are a few things to know about your Schoology courses moving forward: All courses will be archived automatically.  We encourage all teachers to review all of their created course content and create a reusable course copy of all content prior to June 30, […]