Education

    A YOVASO (Youth of Virginia Speak Out) presentation this month at Jefferson Forest High School (JFHS) focused on the impact a teen traffic fatality has on the teen’s friends and family. YOVASO is an organization that promotes safe driving behavior among teens.

    Videos were part on the presentation and one featured J. Len Hale.

    The public got its first shot at voicing its concerns about the 2013-2014 school budget, and several voiced support for a teacher pay raise during the Bedford County School Board meeting last Thursday.
    Karen Nuzzo, representing the Bedford County Education Association, told board members that teachers were looking for a raise this year. “It’s been five long years,” she said of the lack of raises for school employees.

    Jefferson Forest High School held an assembly last week to celebrate diversity. This had nothing to do with race; it focused on the characteristics that make each of us unique.

    The celebration was the vision of Ameka Cruz and Christin Rhodes, teachers at JFHS. The two sponsor the Unity Club.

proposals would require one or more of the current sports fields at LHS to be relocated, if that site is chosen.
    In addition to discussing the study, the school board will also hold a public hearing on the 2013-2014 budget for Bedford County Public Schools. Action items include a vote on a revised elementary school redistricting proposal for the Forest Zone as well as updates to the school system’s zone transfer policy. The school board meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the Bedford Science and Technology Center auditorium.