Education

    School superintendents from around the Commonwealth have come together to present a blueprint for reforming education in Virginia.

    And Bedford County Schools Superintendent Dr. Douglas Schuch is encouraged Gov. Bob McDonnell has several of those reforms on his list as well. He added that the plan also covers many of the issues included in the BCPS strategic plan.

Nobody in Bedford Primary School’s PTA had ever written a grant before, but the group's first effort was successful.
    Bedford Primary’s PTA became one of only 45 in the country to get a $1,000 grant from the National PTA for Take Your Family to School Week. Take Your Family to School Week is sponsored by the National PTA in February to encourage families to get involved with their children’s schools.

The Early College program at Central Virginia Community College’s Bedford Center has been around long enough that the younger brothers and sisters of earlier graduates are now following in their sibling’s footsteps.

    With Early College, high school juniors and seniors attend college classes at CVCC’s Bedford Center instead of attending class at their base high schools. When they graduate, they not only have a high school diploma but also an associate’s degree in general studies.

    Thursday night marked the last county school board meeting of the year, and the last school board meeting for three of its members.

    District 6 school board member Shirley McCabe is the last member of the old appointed school board still serving. McCabe, a retired educator, has served on the Bedford County School board for 16 years and chose not to seek reelection this year. She will be replaced by Kelly Harmony.