Many of the students are well into their summer vacations, but school never ends. At a School Board meeting on June 22, departing Superintendent Alvin Crawley addressed the board as superintendent for the last time to update the board members on the status of summer programs.
According to Crawley, staff spends the summer months reviewing data from the previous school year. Data on school accreditation from the previous year is expected to be released
As a new West End school prepares to open in Fall 2018, Crawley said staff are working on preparing the school’s new instructional programs. With redistricting also scheduled to take effect at the fall start of the 2018 school year, staff is also working on new transportation plans for the bus routes and preparing new training for the school bus drivers.
“They are the face of ACPS,” said Crawley, “Sometimes the first face of the day.”
Various summer school programs are taking place across ACPS. 2017 also marks the second year for the summer theater school, a program started out of George Washington Middle School last year.
This summer also marks a transition period for the school system. In addition to having a new interim superintendent, Crawley noted that there are six new principals coming into the school system. Each of the new principals is assigned a mentor and a staff person at the ACPS main office as a resource to help them learn about the school system and transition into their new roles.