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Education

  • Close to 10,000 students return to school Thursday

        When Bedford County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Douglas Schuch's mother immigrated to this country from Sweden in 1950 at the  age of 11, she entered a public school system that was designed for the industrial age.
        That meant instruction was delivered in a “highly efficient assembly-line fashion,” and students were sorted and selected, based on their abilities to master content in a prescribed amount of time.

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  • Community spruces up Bedford Primary School

        Students returning to Bedford Primary School next Thursday, Aug. 14, will be met with a spruced up exterior of the school.

        Residents from the community have been meeting this week to work on the landscaping at the front of the school, getting it ready for the opening of school—and for a tour two weeks later by the Bedford County School Board.

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  • School board changes grading policy

        Students’ voices can be heard and can lead to change.
        A proposal generated by last year’s Student Advisory Council led the Bedford County School Board to change the school system’s grading policy for the upcoming school year.

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  • Thaxton gathers support

        While discussing the closing of Thaxton Elementary School wasn’t on the agenda for Thursday night’s Bedford County School Board meeting, several residents let it be known where they stand on the issue.

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  • Restructuring underway

    The central office of Bedford County Public Schools will have some new faces and new titles this month as a result of action taken by the school board the past several meetings.
        As part of its effort to follow through with recommendations made in the state-mandated school efficiency study, the school board has voted to reorganize the central office staff structure to make it more in line with what the study suggested.

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  • JF, LHS to get new principals

    back in August, Liberty and Jefferson Forest high schools will have new principals.    Current LHS Principal Tim Overstreet and JF Principal Tony Francis are moving to the Bedford County Public School system’s central office staff, the result of action taken during the school board’s meeting last Thursday.

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  • LC honors local caregiver

        Since helping take care of her great-grandmother as a child, Amanda Garraghty Brown knew her calling in life.

        And she does it very well.
        Each year the Beard Center on Aging at Lynchburg College recognizes professionals who have promoted positive aging in our community at its annual conference on aging in June.
        This year, Brown, a Bedford County native, was the recipient of the “Professional Caregiver of the Year” award.

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  • School budget OK'd

        There will be fewer teachers, larger class sizes and lower take-home pay.
        Maintenance will go unfunded, math specialists won’t be hired and the ninth grade class won’t be carrying their textbooks to school in a tablet.
        The 2014-2015 budget for Bedford County Public Schools is now adopted and it’s far less than what the school board had hoped to be able to spend.

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  • Board votes to close Body Camp Elementary in one year

        They’ll do their best to make it a year to remember.
        Those were the first thoughts from staff and parents of students from Body Camp Elementary who will have one more year at the school before it closes.

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  • Body Camp Elementary to close after one more year

    They'll do their best to make it a year to remember.

    Those were the first thoughts from staff and parents of students from Body Camp Elementary who will have one more year at the school before it closes.

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