Guest OpinionCentral: Jim Barczak on Halifax County Schools

Here at SouthsideCentral, we’re glad to present opinions from citizens of issues of local and regional importance. Today, Jim Barczak weighs in with an OpinionCentral on his take of the problems with the Halifax County School System.

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Danville School Board Race – Update #1

Three open seats, three candidates. This may be the only update on this election but I’m optimistic and calling this article “Update #1″ anyway.

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Danville-Pittsylvania County Chamber awards education grants

This is one of the best examples in how money that’s raised in the community can go back to the community for great causes.

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Gang signs at a local High School?

Is there a lack of communication at Dan River High School?

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Southern Virginia Bioenergy Conference recap & thoughts.

The Institute for Advanced Learning & Research hosted the “Southern Virginia Bioenergy: Making Innovation Work” conference on Tuesday. SouthsideCentral was there and was highly impressed at what progress is being made in the bioenergy field.

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Want to go to a H1N1 seminar?

Nobody else did, either.

Virginia Dept. of Education statement on upcoming Obama speech

This has became a controversial issue in the SouthsideCentral area, so here’s the VDOE’s guidance statement about it.

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Help wanted: Middle school traffic director. Salary: $71,232

Our sources have spotted a high-ranking Halifax County Public School administrator hard at work. It’s too bad that he’s getting paid $71,232 to direct traffic.

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UPDATED: Breaking News: Susan Granger on WSET’s news tonight!

(Originally Published on: Aug 17, 2009 @ 18:08)

UPDATED to include link to WSET’s website.

YAY Susan! She made her comments on Paul Stapleton’s finger-pointing statement.

SouthsideCentral thanks Ashley Singh for finding this story and giving it more coverage.

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Halifax County School Board – District 3 Race – Update #1

We’ve got an incumbent and a challenger in this election cycle.

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OC: Those 45 damn kids with disabilities. It’s their fault!

We’d have gotten away with it if it hadn’t been for those 45 disabled meddling kids! Paul Stapleton, you’re an ass.

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Roanoke’s SOL cheating scandal goes from bad to worse.

Lets see how that principal that’s hired a PR firm tries to spin this into anything good.

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Happy Trails, Craven Williams!

The embattled Greensboro College “retires”. Riiiiiiiight.

Doubletalk statement of the day!

We’ve told you that Greensboro College is on shaky financial ground. What if you want to talk to a faculty member about it?

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What happens when you arrive at the Danville School Board office at 4:02 PM?

You get told “The School Board Office is closed” rather directly. Fooey on that.

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William Fleming principal hires a lawyer & a PR firm

This is truly “A…Developing…Situation”.

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So who’s moving around in Halifax County schools?

Take a look at the June personnel report here!

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The School Board Meeting From Hell

…not Halifax County, surprisingly.

Jim Barczak and his sour grapes.

Anybody see the letter to the editors in both the News & Record and the Gazette-Virginian? Wow.

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Halifax County School Board FOIA controversy – Round #4

Here’s my reply to Larry Clark’s email.

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Halifax County School Board FOIA controversy – Round #3

We’ve got our reply from the latest letter sent to the School Board Clerk.

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Roanoke school under investigation for SOL testing issues

Did they get this idea from a “Simpsons” episode?

UPDATE: The FOIA concern with the Halifax County School Board

When we talked about this last, I had an issue with the Halifax County School Board not making the entire agenda packet available to the public. Let’s go to the next chapter of this story…

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School Board. Closed meeting. Eliminated job. Sound familiar?

I bet it does, but it’s not about Willa Smith this time. Let’s go to Danville for this one…

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Halifax County School Board agenda for Monday (6/8)

What’s happening at the Halifax County School Board meeting Monday night? You know where to look…. but we’ve got a problem with public access to some of their documents and their policy. Read all the way to the end, please.

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