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		<title>ACPS Daily Digest For Sept. 9, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early Childhood Center

John Adams Elementary School announces the opening of the Early Childhood Center on the first floor of its newly renovated school. The center includes five Head Start classrooms and nine early childhood special education classes that, in addition to serving children with developmental delays, include 31 typically developing two-, three- and four-year-old community children who would not otherwise have a preschool experience.]]></description>
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		<title>ACPS Daily Digest For September 8, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back-To-School Video

Watch back-to-school messages from ACPS Superintendent Morton Sherman, Alexandria Mayor William Euille and administrators online at http://acpsk12va.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=74 .
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		<title>A Classical Curriculum In An Historic School</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1785, a group of Alexandrians founded the Alexandria Academy. Today, another group of Alexandrians opened the doors of the Alexandria Academy – The Washington Latin School in the City of Alexandria. The K-12 college prep school will provide a classical curriculum, which includes: the classics; English language and literature; history, geography and civic responsibility; rhetoric and public elocution; modern foreign languages;]]></description>
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		<title>Alexandria Students Go Back To School</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rebecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer came to an end for the more than 11,000 students who attend Alexandria City Public schools. This morning, school bells rang and students began another year of school. ]]></description>
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		<title>Education Secretary Duncan, Redskin Legend Darrell Green Set Tone For New School Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stars came out to welcome the Alexandria City Public Schools system staff back to school at the 2010 Convocation. U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan talked about moving education excellence forward; Washington Redskin great Darrell Green was there to give a pep talk on engaging communities in education; Alexandria Mayor Bill Euille offered words of encouragement and support; the children and grandchildren of friends and neighbors honored Ferdinand Day and the Superintendent's Songsters entertained the audience with inspirational and amusing tunes.]]></description>
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		<title>ACPS Daily Digest For September 1, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Convocation Reminder

Almost 1,300 teachers and administrators will be welcomed for the new school year with the annual Alexandria City Public Schools Convocation on Thursday, Sept. 2, from 9 to 10:30 a.m., in the T.C. Williams High School auditorium. Read more at http://www.acps.k12.va.us/news2011/nr2010090103.php .]]></description>
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		<title>School Board Retreat Begins New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We certainly were guilty of sitting a long time this past weekend, for the School Board’s annual summer retreat. Yet I am confident no one minded –because we navigated interesting discussions about raising the bar for student achievement. ]]></description>
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		<title>T. C.&#8217;s Transformation Begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rebecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since June, new T. C. Williams High School Principal Suzanne Maxey has planned for the 2010-11 school year. With the opening of school less than a week away, she is ready for the students to return and looking forward to transforming the school from a Persistently Lowest Achieving school into a place where students achieve at the highest level and one where pride, school spirit and discipline are core values.]]></description>
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		<title>ACPS Daily Digest For August 31, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transportation Phone Lines Down

The phone lines for the ACPS Department of Pupil Transportation are down due to a damaged cable that serves the area. Due to the nature of the outage, the repair is expected to take at least 24 hours.]]></description>
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		<title>Jefferson-Houston Redevelopment Rewind</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rebecca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For nearly a year, the Alexandria City Public School system and the Alexandria School Board have been considering a public/private partnership to pay for a new school on the Jefferson-Houston Elementary School site. On June 22, ACPS staff presented the concept to the Alexandria City Council, which directed ACPS to set up a series of community meetings to discuss the matter and provide additional information about the financing. On Sept. 13, the Alexandria School Board will hold the first community meeting to discuss the Jefferson-Houston project.]]></description>
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