Albemarle County Public Schools will pay nearly $20,000 to reimburse 23 Monticello High School students, three coaches and a bus driver for personal items lost in a Jan. 13 school bus fire on Interstate 64. The county School Board approved the action on a 7-0 vote Thursday night as part of the board’s larger consent […]
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Presidential election a teachable moment for area educators
As the 2016 election cycle has produced historic levels of partisan animosity between voters, intense focus on individual candidates and an at-times deeply personal struggle between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, some Albemarle County and Charlottesville government teachers have had to change how they teach the election. At Albemarle High School, where students […]
Entrepreneurship-focused engineering classes in full swing at MHS
None of the students in Eric Bredder’s engineering class at Monticello High School seems to care that their workspace smells like gasoline. All of the students are ensconced in an individual project that they dreamed up and pulled together with little input. That’s just how Bredder wants it. “I always have projects of my own […]