There are signs that the Trump administration’s immigration policies are having real and substantial effects at T.C., according to people close to the situation.
Jared Bernstein, the former chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden during the Obama administration, will give a series of talks on public policy, the national economy, and data analysis at T.C. in February and March. The lectures are open to all interested students.
The School Board, in its effort to address Alexandria’s dwindling secondary school capacity, is considering a system by which the city would have “distributed high schools.” Under this plan, students would be separated into a large handful of small high school campuses around the city, each of which would have a special focus, like, for example, a STEM campus and a career-and-technological-education campus. The proposal is one of a few concrete solutions to an increasingly pertinent issue, but its critics say that it raises more questions than it answers. Fortunately, the elite minds of The Beet have solutions.
Dennis LaGanza, a three-year player for the Division 1 University of Connecticut lacrosse team and longtime coach for Alexandria youth teams, is the new head coach of the T.C. Williams varsity lacrosse team, the athletic department administration announced on Tuesday.
For most high school seniors, graduation can not come quickly enough.
But once inside that crowded, hot auditorium, it does not pass quickly enough. The sheer length of graduation is inevitable—almost 850 students must cross the stage—but there is one problem that is in the school’s power to address.
The Beet knows what you’re thinking. You just checked Instagram, and you saw that your white, wealthy, private-school friend, whose friends are exclusively fellow whites, has posted a picture--or maybe several--with a young black or Latino child. Your friend--let’s call him Chad--is getting hundreds of likes and dozens of adoring comments.
By Hunter Langley
Obesity rates have skyrocketed over the past 50 years. Over 70 percent of adults over the age of 20 are listed as overweight or obese as of 2014, according to the Centers for Disease...
The Scholarship Fund of Alexandria (SFA) is hosting a series of fundraising parties between June 5 and June 14 to honor certain Alexandria City Public School (ACPS) teachers. The teachers, who were nominated...
There will be no parking spaces in the garage available to students next year, according to Principal Peter Balas.
Balas announced in a staff meeting yesterday that all 407 spaces in the two-story garage...
By Tom McGivern
Tom McGivern is a volunteer for the T.C. Crew program.
For the second year in a row, inclement weather shortened the schedule of races at the Walter Mess Regatta at the Occoquan Reservoir...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jKvKvewjRs&feature=youtu.be
Watch Journalism I students at T.C. interview Margaret Sullivan, a media columnist for The Washington Post and formerly the Public Editor...
