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ACPS is set to initiate a new policy of censorship. We need your help.

Theogony Staff and The Editorial Board • April 29, 2025

The school board is about to vote on a policy that censors student journalists. We created a policy that promotes the first amendment. Join us, along with hundreds of others, in urging the school board...

A Theogony investigation found that ACPS spent $145,000 on a K-8 analysis but ultimately didn't choose any of the options from the analysis report — contradicting messaging in multiple public presentations.

Inside the Tumultuous Vote to Eliminate K-8 Schools

James Libresco, Noah Sternberg and Isabel Shultz • April 25, 2025

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DHS Vehicle Spotted Outside ACHS

James Libresco and Isabel Shultz • April 22, 2025

A vehicle marked with the emblem of the Department of Homeland Security, the federal agency that houses Immigration and Customs Enforcement, more commonly known as ICE, was spotted outside of the King...

Patrick Henry is the most crowded school in Alexandria.

Inside Redistricting: Progress and Pushback

Isabel Shultz, Noah Sternberg and James Libresco • April 12, 2025

Sofia, an elementary student at the Patrick Henry school, walks into her classroom each morning with a smile on her face, excited to learn. But Sofia’s school, along with the schools of thousands of...

As students return from winter break, they will no longer be able to use their phones during the school day. That ban does not take today's digital world into account, Max Carpenter writes.

Phoning It In

Max Carpenter, Editor • January 3, 2025
The phone ban will be ineffective, as it will be impossible to enforce, writes Max Carpenter.
ACPS Should Ban Football

ACPS Should Ban Football

Dino Drudi, Guest Contributor • December 26, 2024

On Sept. 28, 2017, in public comments at a school board meeting, I became the first person in Alexandria to call on Alexandria City Public Schools to discontinue tackle football at all levels due to new...

Naomi Brooks Elementary has been closed since September 26 for cleaning.

Elementary Students Exposed to Lead

Nadja Duss, Editor • October 4, 2024
After a construction project went awry, an undetermined number of students at Naomi Brooks Elementary School were exposed to lead. The school system has no contingency plan for classes.
Classes in elementary schools in the West End do not meet the ACPS standard of a 24 student maximum per elementary class, according to parents who say they have spent years advocating for smaller class sizes.

Bursting at the Seams: West End Schools Exceed Capacity

Isabel Shultz, Staff Writer • September 17, 2024
Parents of elementary school students have a lot to say about disproportionate overcrowding in West End classrooms.
Graphic by Yahney-Marie Sangare for Theogony

Emotion, Upheaval and Reckoning: Inside the High School Project

James Libresco, Editor • April 26, 2024
As ACHS prepares for the opening of its new Minnie Howard campus, engagement efforts are at an all-time high. Behind the scenes, the process is shakier than it appears.
School Board members and employees in the Collective Bargaining Committee meet in the boardroom at ACPS’ Central Office on January 25. Outside the circle, various community members and teachers look on. Board Chair Dr. Michelle Rief, Abdel Elnoubi, Dr. Ashley Simpson-Baird and Meagan Alderton sit around the table. Lawyers from the Isler-Dare firm sit at the side. / Screenshot from the ACPS TV live Zoom recording.

Collective Bargaining in ACPS Reaches New Tipping Point after Draft Resolution Released

Yahney-Marie Sangaré, Co-Editor-in-Chief • February 8, 2024

At the January 18 public hearing for the next school year’s proposed budget, David Paladin-Fernandez took the final slot for public comment. Wearing a Titan’s Wrestling hoodie -- the Jefferson Houston...

Graphic by Yahney-Marie Sangare

Proposed ACPS Budget Stirs Controversy Surrounding Teacher Pay

James Libresco, Editor • January 31, 2024
The ACPS community is upset about COLA, and they don’t mean the carbonated beverage.
From left: Courtesy of Gina Baum; Photo by James Cullum, Courtesy of ALXnow

School Board Special Election: A Candidate Guide

James Libresco, Editor • December 15, 2023
A Theogony guide dives into candidate perspectives and policies on important ACPS topics.
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