Our Newsletter: Your Source On the Issues that Matter

1/10/2022 Middle School Advanced Programs Vote Tonight + Additional Instructional Time for Some APS Schools + Virtual Learning Program Ends + Teacher's Lounge

12/7/2022 APS Calendar Decisions, Substitutes Needed, Enrollment Data and VA Legislative Packet Plus a Change to This Year's Calendar

11/16/2022 New History Standards Proposal, Recovery Plans' Lackluster Results, PAPER, Teacher's Lounge, and What We Are Reading

11/2/2022 Parent's Corner: APS' Grading System is Failing Us; Update on APS Homework Changes; APS' Hiring Diversity Efforts

10/27/2022 Special Edition: School Board Candidate Forum Recap; Opposing Viewpoints on the Bond Election; Plummeting NAEP Scores; Calendar Survey

10/18/2022 Parent's Corner: The Stolen Year, What Does Excellence at APS Look Like?, Enrollment Numbers, ASEAC Update

10/11/2022 Special Edition: School Board Candidate Forum; Fewer Days in APS Calendar? + Join us for our Fall Social!

10/05/2022 In Case You Missed It!

9/27/2022 Parent's Corner: No Magic Grits, Students Deserve 180 Days, Accelerated Math Rates Decline, Give VDOE Your Feedback

9/21/2022 -2022-23 Survey Results Are In! Plus, See Our 2022-2023 Priorities

9/13/2022- Teacher's Lounge on Literacy Rates, Do We Have a Teacher Retention Issue, Effective School Boards, Give VDOE Your Feedback

8/24/2022 - SOL Score Analysis, Reflections from Watching School Board Meetings, New Curriculum Resources, New COVID Protocols, Science Data and Math

8/11/2022 - DIBELS Data Shows Reading Struggles; Proposed Policy for Board Votes; Math Wars

7/26/2022 - VDH New Guidance; Audit Report "is going to make you sick"; Parent's Corner: Devices; San Fran & "Math Wars"; SB656 Model Policies; Board Mtg Recap

6/14/2022 - Capital Improvement Plan Discrepancies; VLP Audit Results; Delays in Adopting VDH Guidelines; New Homework PIP

5/31/2022- VDOE Education Report; CivFed Recap; Emergency Powers & SB Lack of Vote

05/18/2022 - Give your ESSR Feedback Today! Harvard Report; TTS & VDH; Parent's Corner: Year-Round Excellence

05/14/2022 - Contentious School Board Debate; County Funding; Tutoring & Compensatory Services; Parent's Corner: Personal Devices

04/12/2022 - Parent's Corner: Standards-Based Grading; Grading Proposal Scrapped; Middle School Struggles

04/05/2022 - Special APS Budget Issue

03/29/2022 - COVID Testing & Protocols; Student Progress Dashboard; Accelerated Math & Summer School

03/17/2022 - Teacher's Corner; Widening Achievement Gap; Grading Policies; Bell Study

03/08/2022 - APE on Tap This Weekend! Budget Season is Here; ASEAC Update and Learning Loss Report plus Math Textbooks & APS Policy Revisions

02/22/2022 - Math and Your Student; SB739 Update; Civ Fed Mtg; Learning Loss Data; SB Update

02/08/2022 - Legislative Update; Parent Corner; APS Spending Report; SB Caucus Update

01/24/2022 - APS Keeps Mask Mandate; TTS Coming Soon; Class Sizes Need To Be Reduced; 1/20 SB Meeting Recap

01/12/2022 - 2021 Recap and Goals; County Refuses to Acknowledge Importance of Open Schools; 1/7 SB Meeting Recap

12/31/2021 - Ask APS To Reverse Athletics & Activities Pause

12/28/2021 - Will APS Stay Open? APE Fights for All Our Kids + Please Support APE

12/21/2021 - A Year End Wrap Up + Budget Season + School Board Recap

12/07/2021 - APS Calendar Shortened + Bring Back Textbooks + SB Meeting Recap

12/01/2021 - Special Edition: Two votes looming large on Thursday

11/23/2021 - Class Sizes Should be Reduced + More about APS Committees + SB Meeting Recap

11/08/2021 - Please Address Learning Loss + ARP: Where's the Input? + Election Recap 

10/31/2021 - A Teacher's View on Grading & Equity; Updates on Test to Stay and more

10/17/2021 - School and County Board Candidates: Hear Their Education Views + A Bond Primer

10/10/2021- APS Redoing Federal Grant Application Following APE Inquiry; Time to Rethink 1:1 Device Policy

10/03/2021- State-Level Education Decisions and Your Child: A Deeper Dive 

9/26/2021- VMPI: An Overview Every Parent Should Read + Test to Stay + VLP Update

9/17/2021- Quarantine vs. Test to Stay; APS Enrollment Plummets; SB Meeting Recap

9/9/2021- What Parents Don't Know About SOL Data; APS Please Address Learning Loss 

9/1/2021- A Very Special Announcement from APE

8/29 /2021- Dismal PALS/SOL Data Released; Happy Back-to-School; APE Urges End to SB Caucus

8/20/2021 - APS Must Address Learning Loss; Teacher Reassignments Rescinded; Please Register your Student

8/10/2021- What we learned this year

7/21/2021 - 58.6% of ARP funds for 3% of APS' student population

7/3/2021- What we learned this year: An Honest Post Mortem on the 2020-2021SY

6/21/2021- APS Gets Its Report Card + APS Puts Kids Among Last in Nation

6/18/2021 - Survey Closes Tomorrow: Please Take 5 Minutes to Give us Feedback on the Future of APE; Updates on APS and State-level RT

6/7/2021-  Primary Voting is Tomorrow: See Candidates' Return-to-School Scorecards

5/20/2021 -  Have You Voted? Online Voting for School Board Has Begun

5/10/2021 -  Another disappointing School Board Meeting

5/3/2021 -  APS Provides a Fall Update; Thank you Secretary Cardona!

4/26/2021- As surrounding districts are back 4 or more days, APS stays shut

4/19/2021 -  Join Us At Our Rally This Thursday! https://mailchi.mp/95c2c341cdae/wehavedatesletskeepthem-4965945

4/12/2021 -  More disappointment from APS and School Board

4/4/2021 - Please Attend This Week's School Board Meeting; Keep Pushing for 5 Days

3/27/2021 - APS Continues to Make Excuses; Finally The Board Pushes Back!

3/22/2021 - CDC changes guidance; APS continues to disappoint   

3/16/2021 -  Five days per week push; Meet the School Board candidates

3/7/2021 - Hybrid begins with a win! Please tell Gov Northam to sign SB 1303

2/28/2021 - APS is Ready! Please tell Gov Northam to sign SB 1303

2/20/2021 - APS Preps for Hybrid; Failing Grades in MS/HS; VA 47th of 50 states

2/15/2021 - We Have Dates! Let's Keep Them.

2/5/2021 - First to close, last to reopen

2/1/2021 - Vaccine But Still No Return?

1/18/2021 - Teachers Have Return Dates... Why Not Students?

1/8/2021 - APS Update: Still No Return Dates for Students

1/4/2021 - 300 Days of Virtual Learning