Education

Local residents will have their first official opportunity to speak to the Bedford County School Board about the 2012-2013 budget at its meeting this Thursday.
    A public hearing on the budget will be held at 7 p.m. at the auditorium of the Bedford Science and Technology Center.
    But this won’t be the first time board members or school officials will have actually heard from the public on the budget. Numerous meetings with PTAs, teachers and civic groups have been going on for months.

    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.