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The school opened in 1952. The magnet program was established in 1991, [1] after Bailey's parent–teacher association (PTA), under President Richard Kurin, threatened to sue the school board to redraw the school boundaries, [2] hoping to bring academic, linguistic, and cultural diversity to a school with a high percentage of non-native English speakers (87% in 1991). [3]
Katherine Johnson Middle School (Region 5, [1] grades 7-8 [49]) is a City of Fairfax and Fairfax County Public Schools AAP (FCPS Advanced Academics Program) Center-based middle school serving grades 7-8 in Region 5. The school is owned by the City of Fairfax, but implements Fairfax County Public Schools' "educational services, staffing ...
The school was originally intended to only serve Fairfax County students, but after Virginia governor Charles S. Robb chose Fairfax County as the location of a regional science and technology school, the school board voted to accept the funding from the state and allow students from Arlington, Loudoun, and Prince William counties and from the ...
The seven-member Fairfax County School Board included four Federal employees. In Blackwell v. Fairfax County School Board in 1960, black plaintiffs charged that the Fairfax grade-a-year plan was discriminatory and dilatory. Fifteen black children had been refused admission to white schools because they did not fall within the prescribed grades ...
Removing transportation options from magnet, traditional schools creates a barrier which only serves to widen the equity and achievement gaps in JCPS JCPS busing update makes magnet school options ...
Aug. 23—The hallways of Tuscarora High School were crowded and noisy by 7 a.m. Wednesday morning. Outside, administrators directed traffic and spoke urgently into walkie-talkies while students ...
Magnet Schools Assistance is a Federal grants program administered by the U.S. Department of Education.The program is designed to help desegregate public schools. The program is defined in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, in Section 5301, though the program itself was developed in the early 1980s to address de facto racism through funds given to school distracts that were ...
The deadline to apply for magnet programs is approaching. Here are things to know before you apply.