The Virginia Board of Education recognized 51 Fairfax County public schools for high student achievement or continuous improvement under the board’s exemplar performance school recognition program.

FCPS announces the appointment of two new principals.

Fairfax County Public Schools has received a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for its comprehensive annual financial report from the Government Finance Officers Association.

Fairfax High School principal Erin Lenart has decided to permanently remove the use of “Rebel” from the school’s team name, effective immediately. Going forward, Fairfax High will use the team name Lions and Lion Pride.

The Fairfax County School Board is considering a 2021-22 Standard School Year Calendar that was developed with a focus on instruction and learning for students and includes four religious observance holidays.

Daniela Pereira Flores, a 2020 graduate of Centreville High School, has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Fairfax County School Board Character Award.

Fairfax County School Board put forward a resolution acknowledging the historical importance of Juneteenth, June 19, as the day in 1865 that word of the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the Civil War finally reached enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, effectively marking the end of slavery in the United States.

Shan Lateef, a rising senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, is the only student representative chosen to serve on Governor Ralph Northam’s Education Work Group that is developing a way to safely reopen Virginia’s PreK-12 schools.

Capital One has donated $90,000 to the Foundation for Fairfax County Public Schools to support the purchase of MiFi units for students without internet connections in their homes during the COVID-19 quarantine.

Join FCPS Superintendent Scott S. Brabrand, Assistant Superintendent of Facilities and Transportation Services Jeff Platenberg, and manager of School Health Services Lorraine Trouton for an FCPS Town Hall on Tuesday, June 16, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.