Monticello is the first of the county’s three high schools to install a turf field.

The Albemarle County school division announced Monday several changes in assistant principals for this school year.

Incoming class also comes with higher qualifications, more economic worries

Charlottesville and Albemarle County are jointly receiving nearly $6 million to help bolster programs targeting violence and substance-abuse prevention in schools and childhood development

The state Board of Education is expected to approve budget projections today that show the size of savings to the state if a funding cap for school support staffers remains.

State budget cuts may lead to layoffs at Piedmont Virginia Community College, officials said Wednesday

John T. Casteen III will retire Aug. 1, 2010.

Woodbrook Elementary School’s top officials talked trash Friday about who would win a foot race on the school’s new track.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Monday that he will review budget-reduction plans from the University of Virginia and other state institutions over the coming weeks before making a decision on how deeply colleges must cut their budgets to help the state overcome its weakening finances.

The interactive nine-week program uses text, graphics, animations, vignettes, quizzes and games to present behavioral, educational and cognitive techniques for improving sleep.

University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III warned the UVa community Thursday that deeper budget cuts are almost certainly on the horizon.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has instructed state colleges and universities to prepare for reductions of 5 percent, 10 percent and 15 percent of state appropriations for the current fiscal year.

“It started spewing out brown liquid like lava”

More than a year after the idea was shelved, the Charlottesville School Board is again considering the merits of a student exchange program with Poggio a Caiano, one of Charlottesville’s sister cities.

Shepherd, 27, said she thinks experts have focused too much on a patient’s rights and not enough on people’s responsibilities to a patient like Schiavo.

“This is ridiculous,” M. Rick Turner said Friday

Casteen, 65, has led the university since 1990. He will retire from the post at the conclusion of his 20th year in the job.

The Charlottesville public school system will hold several meetings in the coming months to discuss the division’s use of facilities and whether its grades should be reconfigured.

During his tenure, Tornello led CHS to 27 Virginia Honor Band titles out of a possible 28.

The number of students participating in more challenging courses at Charlottesville High School is increasing, but the public school division is still finding considerable discrepancies between the number of white and black students enrolled.

After months of steep losses, the University of Virginia’s endowment has found more sure footing.

Live streaming video of Albemarle County public schools’ high school graduations will be made available on the division’s Web site, http://www.k12albemarle.org.

Piedmont Virginia Community College is opening its doors to middle school students for career academies in computer and health technologies.

A conservative writer and activist at the center of a racially charged controversy will not be attending the University of Virginia’s School of Law.

University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III will deliver a keynote address at the third International Conference on World-Class Universities in Shanghai.

That was the message this morning for the Virginia Board of Education, which is considering scrapping the third grade history/social studies assessment that covers material from kindergarten through third grade.

Many Charlottesville parents expressed fears Tuesday that new grade configurations and the school redistricting they would require may unintentionally divide the city based on racial and socio-economic lines.

The workshop — which will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Charlottesville High School — follows the division’s efficiency review that was completed in January.

Federal economic stimulus money will provide Charlottesville schools with a windfall to make technology improvements and a range of upgrades to the division’s performing arts center.

Students at Virginia’s community colleges will see tuition and fees increase by $6.55 per credit hour for the 2009-10 school year.