Albemarle County schools expect about $6 million less in state funding next fiscal year than this fiscal year — likely equating to another blow to teachers and less funding for operational expenses.

The 119-year-old student newspaper at the University of Virginia announced Monday that it will not publish a print edition on certain days this academic year to cut costs amid the economic downturn.

The briefing will be held at noon Nov. 10 in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom at UVa.

The first course of the new Program in Law and Public Service will be held in the spring.

Racial barriers in education continue to exist more than 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down separate-but-equal schools for blacks and whites and more than 30 years after forced desegregation, according to panelists at a University of Virginia symposium.

Others wondered why any changes needed to be made at all.

Those involved with the renovation of Charlottesville’s Jefferson School say construction should start this summer and the building should be ready for occupancy in 2012.

The meeting, which will narrow the four options to two, will take place at 6 p.m. at Charlottesville High School.

In what could hardly be called a surprise move, the Albemarle County School Board voted unanimously Thursday night not to consolidate three elementary schools.

New figures show that the dropout rate among black students who entered Albemarle County high schools in 2005 nearly tripled that of the previous class, a disappointing result for school administrators who had praised the low black dropout rate only six months ago.

Pam Graves knew that if she wanted to make a better life for her daughter it meant getting her GED.

Two local school superintendents failed to show up to speak at an NAACP forum because they had been told the event had been canceled, according to Charlottesville Superintendent Rosa S. Atkins.

A divided Charlottesville School Board on Thursday approved the installation of a synthetic turf field at Charlottesville High School, despite some members’ concerns about possible health and environmental risks.

College officials had hoped to begin offering classes in the facility this fall, but now it won’t open until March 1.

PVCC’s new workforce development center will be located in the Route 20 visitors’ center.

MERCI collects the hospital’s unused and sterile medical supplies and donates them to various projects and charitable missions.

“If you can clearly understand someone’s post or chat online, don’t critique their grammar or spelling just because you have nothing of substance to say. Typos happen.”

Charlottesville schools will be able to cope with the governor’s proposed funding cuts, but next year could bring more bad news, the School Board heard Thursday.

Smokers still wanting to light up will have to walk to Jefferson Park Avenue.

Albemarle County Schools Superintendent Pam Moran is recommending three small schools in southern Albemarle remain open.

Merrill D. Peterson, a noted Thomas Jefferson scholar and University of Virginia history professor, died Wednesday in Charlottesville.

Eisenberg is one of several UVa faculty members who have received the grant in recent years.

Crews knocked down the building at 135 Madison Lane

The concept of microfinance has gone on to help millions of people in Bangladesh and elsewhere

Janine Jagger, the director of UVa’s center, said this was the first time UVa has been asked to help develop a program in Africa.

The bulk of the voting members called for the schools to be renovated and kept open

As the Charlottesville school division prepares for a possible swine flu outbreak, the School Board decided Thursday that school buildings could be used for vaccination clinics.

The University of Virginia’s director of athletics has apologized for a video shown at UVa’s football game against the College of William & Mary that some found demeaning to American Indians.

Charlottesville and Albemarle County high school students showed significant gains on SAT exams this year, despite state and national declines.

The University of Virginia has raised two-thirds of its $3 billion fundraising campaign, officials announced Sunday.