Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) will celebrate Black History Month during February.

The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) has declared February is Career and Technical Education Month. The theme for this year’s celebration is “Invest in Your Future.”

The annual Coaches vs. Cancer varsity basketball doubleheader between the Freedom and the Briar Woods high schools will be held on Tuesday, February 2nd, at Freedom High School.

Dominion High School students attended a sobering school-wide assembly on safe driving habits, “Drive to Survive – A Habit for Life” on January 12th in the school’s gymnasium.

Loudoun County’s school community has been raising funds and awareness in the wake of the January 12th earthquake in Haiti.

The Potomac Falls High School Dance Team brought home second place for their hip-hop dance routine performed in the National Champion Jazz category of the American National Championships.

The Loudoun County School Board is supporting an effort by Loudoun’s delegation in the General Assembly to adopt a scheduled change to Virginia’s Local Composite Index (LCI).

A team of fifth grade students from Hillside Elementary School won highest honors in the WordMasters Challenge, a national language arts competition.

Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) is seeking a parent representative to serve on the Honors Weighting Panel. This group will consider additional courses that have been submitted for weighting as honors courses.

Ashburn Elementary Principal Barbara Holley will retire on January 29th with decidedly mixed emotions.

Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) will operate the first green school bus in Virginia.

Because of the implementation of a 10-point grading scale and additional weighting for honors and Advanced Placement classes, the criterion for students honored at the annual Excellence in Education Banquet will change for 2010.

The telecasts of the 27th Annual Excellence in Education banquets will be aired on LCPS-TV beginning Monday, January 25th, and will continue to be aired throughout February.

Artwork produced by students from three Loudoun County schools – Stone Bridge High School, Sterling Middle School and Mountain View Elementary – will be part of an artwork titled “HELLO AND WELCOME!” at Washington Dulles International Airport.

The winners of Park View High School’s winter sportsmanship awards were honored before the Patriots’ wrestling match on Wednesday, January 13th. The award winners were selected by their coaches.

Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) has scheduled five Cluster Budget Meetings. These meetings, hosted by Superintendent Edgar B. Hatrick III, are intended to give the public an overview of the Superintendent’s Proposed Budget for the 2010-2011 school year and an opportunity to comment on the proposed budget.

The fact the achievement gap is being closed in Loudoun County isn’t enough for Phyllis Randall; she wants it eliminated.

The Loudoun County Design Cabinet is seeking four to six high school students who have an interest in architecture to help select the annual Signatures of Loudoun Design Excellence Program Students’ Choice awards.

Junior and senior history students at Park View High School got an in-depth look at the history of slavery and the escape from slavery through the Underground Railroad on Friday, January 8th, in the school’s media center

Dominion High School DECA students performed well at the DECA District 10 Leadership Conference and competition held on Saturday, January 9th, at Potomac Falls High School. (DECA is an association of marketing students.)

Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) is one of 15 school divisions that won the 2010 Virginia Board of Education Excellence Award. This is the highest education award given to school divisions by the state government this year.

It takes a real man to wear tights... Brad Binford proved that on Friday, January 8th, at Harmony Intermediate School. The eighth grade language arts teacher received the “honor” of dressing up as an elf by winning the SCA-sponsored “Can-the-Teacher” competition.

The location of the Loudoun Academy of Science (AOS) writing prompt administration for Thursday, January 14th, has been changed from the School Board Meeting Room in Ashburn to Dominion High School, located at 21326 Augusta Drive in Sterling.

Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Superintendent Edgar B. Hatrick III presented his Fiscal Year 2011 Proposed Operating Budgets to the School Board on Tuesday, January 12th, at the School Administrative Offices in Ashburn.

The staff at Harper Park Middle School recently raised almost $2,500 for students in need.

Wal-Mart became a very special place for holiday shopping for the families enrolled in Loudoun County Public Schools’ Head Start program on Saturday, December 12th. Head Start Coordinator Carol M. Basham invited 100 families of Head Start pre-schoolers to visit the Sterling Super Wal-Mart for a $25 holiday shopping spree.

Forest Grove Elementary School will hold its fifth annual Family Fun and Fitness Day from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, January 16th.

Farmwell Station Middle School English teacher Jessica Read set a Virginia and national bench press record for her weight class and age group at the 100 Percent Raw Christmas Classic on December 12th in Standardsville.

“How to Close the SOL Achievement Gap” will be the subject of the January 13th meeting of the Loudoun Education Alliance of Parents (LEAP).

The deadline for eighth grade students to submit applications to the Loudoun Academy of Science (AOS) for the 2010-11 academic year is 3:30 p.m. Friday, January 8th. In case of inclement weather on January 8th, please take note of the following information:

Judges and sponsors are needed for the 29th Annual Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Regional Science & Engineering Fair. The fair will be held on Thursday, March 18th, at Briar Woods High School.

John Stevens (Potomac District) was elected chairman of the Loudoun County School Board at the board’s organizational meeting on Tuesday, January 5th, at the School Administrative Offices in Ashburn.

An artwork by Dominion High School senior Cassandra Nguyen is being displayed in Washington, D.C., after being awarded a gold medal in the 2009 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

Consecutive Group AA Division 4 State Football championships... Three consecutive Dulles District titles... 28 straight wins... These stats, impressive though they are, aren’t how Broad Run High School Head Football Coach Michael Burnett defines his program.

Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Director of Facilities Services William Kolster has been elected as the 2009-2010 vice president of the Virginia School Plant Managers Association (VSPMA).

Principal Rob Duckworth and guidance counselors Angela Burdette and Ashley Horner are establishing a legacy of giving for the families, students and staff of Legacy Elementary School