ACPS Daily Digest For Jan. 29, 2010

(Friday) January 29, 2010

The weekend may prove chilly and damp, a perfect opportunity to celebrate Sunday’s Inspire Your Heart with Art Day. Set up a work station with paper, drawing and painting supplies and embellishments like glitter and pom-poms, and create masterpieces for your own family museum. As Pablo Picasso noted, “Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” Have fun!

Jazz Concert
The District X Honors Jazz Festival is being co-hosted by Francis C. Hammond Middle School and Episcopal High School this weekend. Students from T.C. Williams High School and Hammond and George Washington middle schools will participate in the annual event. A concert featuring the high-school and middle-school groups will take place at 5 p.m. at Episcopal High School, 1200 Quaker Lane, Alexandria, in the auditorium of the Ainslie Arts Building. The concert is free and open to the public. Read more athttp://www.acps.k12.va.us/news2010/nr2010012903.php .

Planetarium Show
Registration opens at approximately noon on Monday, Feb. 1, for the February community planetarium show, to be held on Tuesday, Feb. 23, at the T.C. Williams High School Planetarium. Spectators should arrive by 7 p.m. to pick up their tickets in the lobby. The program will run from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Read more athttp://www.acps.k12.va.us/news2010/nr2010012902.php

Budget Public Hearings
The Alexandria City School Board will hold FY2011 Budget Public Hearings and Work Sessions at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 6, and at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 11. Both meetings will take place in the Board Room at 2000 N. Beauregard St.

Agendas and attachments will be posted online at http://www.acps.k12.va.us/board/meetings/2009-2010/ . Information about the budget is posted online at http://www.acps.k12.va.us/budgets/ .

If you would like to address the Board, please contact Clerk of the Board Rosemary Webb at 703-824-6614 orrwebb@acps.k12.va.us .

Maury Open House
An open house for prospective kindergarten parents will take place at 9:15 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 24, at Matthew Maury Elementary School, 600 Russell Road, Alexandria, 703-706-4440. The school also gives guided tours to prospective families upon request. See the complete list of kindergarten open houses athttp://www.acps.k12.va.us/news2010/nr2010012701.php .

Human Rights Awards
The Alexandria Human Rights Commission will award up to three Student Human Rights Awards to recognize high-school juniors and seniors, and first-year community college students who have contributed significantly toward improving basic human rights and fairness for all in the City of Alexandria. Recognized students each will receive a commemorative plaque and a monetary award. Submissions must be sent or delivered to the Director of the Alexandria Office of Human Rights, 421 King St., Suite 400, Alexandria, Va. 22314, by Friday, Feb. 26. The Alexandria City Council created the AHRC in 1975 to advise the City Council on matters related to human rights affecting the City and to oversee the Office of Human Rights. For more information, please contact Jean Kelleher Niebauer, Alexandria Office of Human Rights, at 703-746-3140.

Calendar
Check out all the latest happenings, from PTA meetings to school assemblies, listed in the ACPS online calendar at http://www.acps.k12.va.us/events/ .

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