At their recent meeting on May 14, the Albemarle County School Board unanimously approved the Fiscal Year 2020-2021 School Division Budget, A Community Comes Together. The balanced budget of $193.7 million is a 0.9% decrease from the current year’s adopted budget and is aligned with the following budget priorities: Continue reading
Your opinions are a vital part of the school division’s decision-making process! Please take three minutes to listen to Superintendent Haas describe how you can help ACPS evaluate our response to the Covid-19 crisis.
Then, take our survey to share your recent experiences and offer your advice. Please participate by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, May 31. Continue reading
If you will be leaving the division at the end of this school year, the Department of Technology wants to make sure you know how to take your digital content (email, Google files, local files and folders, etc.) with you and what to do with your assigned ACPS technology. Continue reading
If you’re planning on applying for a 2020-21 grant from the Shannon Foundation, your completed application must be signed by your school principal and submitted by or before June 1, 2020. Open the grant application »
While this has certainly been an unusual school year, we want to make sure you know that the last day of work for teaching staff remains Monday, June 8. Office staff should continue to work their schedules as already set in Kronos. Continue reading
ACPS employees recently selected our own Families in Crisis Program to support through a school division-wide fundraiser. This year, our fundraiser will take place as a “Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day” on Friday, May 15!
Here’s how you can participate: Continue reading
The Department of Technology has deployed thousands of technology devices to our students during our extended closure through on-site pickups and mailings. We will host our last planned device deployment this evening. We will continue to accept requests for devices until 5 p.m. on Monday, May 11, 2020. Continue reading
Interested in building a supportive and productive classroom community? Want to learn how social and emotional learning support student engagement and academic achievement?
Responsive Classroom and Developmental Designs are two pillars of our commitment to meeting the social-emotional learning needs of our students. We are excited that both of these summer professional learning opportunities will move forward despite the uncertainty brought on by Covid-19. Continue reading
Dear Teachers and Classified Staff,
I am writing this note to you because at this difficult time in our community, country and world, you remain among the most important contributors to the lives of children. You continue to invest yourselves in educating and supporting those who will one day lead us, including through such hard times as those now before us. Our School Board could not be more grateful to you. Continue reading
As we continue to deal with the impact of public health requirements that keep our community safe from the spread of COVID-19 illness, a good deal of our recent planning has been devoted to graduation. As much as it is possible under the current conditions, we are determined to provide all graduates and their families with a memorable celebratory experience that appropriately honors their achievements.
The school division has just shared our Graduation Plans for the Class of 2020 with all high school seniors and their families.