by Ireland Hayes | Feb 16, 2026 | County, Education, Local Government, Politics, Sidebar
Confront FY27 budget pressures in joint session The Rappahannock County School Board laid out major line items in its fiscal year 2027 budget to the Board of Supervisors (BOS) Tuesday, with state-mandated salary and insurance increases and an estimated $6 million of...
by Ireland Hayes | Jan 20, 2026 | County, Education, Local Government, Sidebar
Diverse public comment, new ideas from incoming board member The Rappahannock County School Board got right to work at its first meeting of the year on Tuesday, discussing the year’s state and county budget season, hearing public comments ranging from school...
by Randy Rieland | Dec 12, 2025 | Education, Sidebar, Top Story
Teachers: Culture changed, no longer “family’ atmosphere School officials: Routine turnover, retirements, better pay elsewhere If the hallways of Rappahannock County High School could talk, they’d tell of an exodus of almost half of the teachers and aides by the...
by Ireland Hayes | Aug 12, 2025 | Education, Sidebar
Rappahannock County Public Schools (RCPS) narrowly avoided a potential funding shortfall this summer when key federal education grants were temporarily frozen before being restored last month. Schools Superintendent Shannon Grimsley said that while no major program...
by Ireland Hayes | Apr 10, 2025 | County, Local Government
Board votes for new school buses The Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors voted Monday to allow staff to seek approval from the state to institute a small increase in court fees that could be leveraged by the county to help fund the construction of a new...
