At Monday night’s Richmond City Council meeting members took the possibility of closing any schools off of the table. The school board voted six to three at last night’s meeting in an effort to balance the budget. However, there maybe possible cuts to bus routes and the slashing of some services. The Richmond School Board […]

To close or not close several Richmond Public Schools that is the question… Richmond City Council has settled on a compromise to give Richmond Public Schools an additional nine-point-five million dollars in the city’s budget. This is a little more than the school system was expecting to receive. Richmond School Superintendent Dr. Dana T. Bedden […]

Is there money in the city budget to prevent school closures? Richmond City Council members are trying to find more money for city schools as they look at options to shut down at least eight Richmond city schools to make up for an 18-million dollar budget shortfall. At Monday night’s meeting in council chambers, some […]

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Richmond City Council encourages Richmond families to attend one of four Richmond locations on Saturday, Aug. 13 to receive free school supplies for their children for the 2011-2012 Richmond Public Schools academic year. At the event, sponsored by Northside Coalition for Children, school supplies will be distributed to students enrolled in Richmond Public Schools from […]