Education

Dr. Summerlyn Thompson, the current principal of Walker Upper Elementary, will take the helm of CMS in the next school year.

The School Board will hear a presentation on the proposed new policy at its Thursday meeting, but won’t be voting on it until March 12 at the earliest.

Nicholas Clark’s residence was searched Monday.

Some feel Charlottesville City Schools has better places to focus city spending, but the district’s SROs won’t require additional funding.

Nicholas J. Clark, a fifth grade teacher at Woodbrook Elementary School, is charged with possessing child pornography and distributing child pornography, both felonies, the Albemarle County Police Department announced. He is being held without bond at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.

55th District Delegate Amy Laufer (D-Albemarle) said she hopes the Virginia Senate keeps a budget provision of $400-million in flexible funding.

Charlottesville High School students are displaying creative and colorful art at CreatorHub downtown, inspired by leading-edge research at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

Mike Pruitt and Bea Lapisto-Kirtley discuss what is in the budget ahead of its presentation on Wednesday.

The Charlottesville school hosted its annual Day of Giving event on Monday.

A line extended well into the corridor of the West Lawn waiting to get into the building and up the stairs to the Rotunda Room for at look at one of the two original copies of the Declaration of Independence the University’s creator, Thomas Jefferson, wrote.