KICKOFF BECKONS: High school football season schedules are on page 9.
August 21, 2019 | Vol. 18, No. 34 | www.princewilliamtimes.com | 50¢ Covering Prince William County and surrounding communities, including Gainesville, Haymarket, Dumfries, Occoquan, Quantico and the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park.
Back to school = back to trailers But schools will open with 22 fewer portables this year By Jill Palermo
Times Staff Writer
When Prince William students head back to school Monday, there will be 184 portable classroom trailers tucked behind schools across the county. That’s 22 fewer than the 206 trailers that were used to handle school overcrowding last school year.
Still, the number means more than 4,400 students will spend at least part of their days in portable classrooms during the 2019-20 school year. The addition of a John D. Jenkins Elementary School in Woodbridge and a 17-room addition on Stonewall Middle made the biggest dent in trailer numbers for the coming school year. Stonewall Middle lost all seven of the portable classroom trailers it used last year, while 24
Which schools will have trailers? See page 4 trailers have been moved from eight elementary schools due to the opening of the new elementary school -the county’s 64th serving students in kindergarten through the fifth grade. The number of trailers in use at the elementary school level will thus drop from 107 to 72 this year. Among the county’s elementary schools, Loch Lomond, in Manas-
sas, and Marumsco Hills, in Woodbridge, will have the most trailers at six apiece. The number the trailers at both the middle and high school levels will rise this year, however. Middle schools will use three more trailers, for a total of 50, while high schools will use 61 trailers, or 10 more than last year. Once again, Battlefield High School in Gainesville will have the most trailers with 21, up from 18 last year. Patriot High School, in Nokesville, will be a close second with 20. See TRAILERS, page 4
Candidates clash over ICE agreement
PHOTOS BY DELIA ENGSTROM
Josh King, left, a Democrat and Fairfax County sheriff’s deputy, is challenging incumbent Sheriff Glen Hill, a Republican, right, in the upcoming Nov. 5 election. King says he’ll terminate Prince William County’s longstanding 287(g) agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement if elected because he says it discourages undocumented residents from working with police. Hill says the agreement contributes to public safety.
Hill backs 287(g); King says he’d end it By Daniel Berti
Times Staff Writer
The Prince William County jail’s controversial agreement with U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement has become a point of conten-
tion between incumbent Republican Sheriff Glen Hill and his Democratic challenger, Josh King. Hill renewed the county’s ICE agreement for another year effective July 1 with approval from the Prince William-Manassas Regional Jail INSIDE Calendar.............................................11 Classified............................................16 Lifestyle..............................................10
Board. King, who currently works as a sheriff’s deputy in Fairfax County, says he plans to end the partnership if he’s elected. The program, known as a 287(g) agreement, allows the jail to deputize its officers as ICE agents to access federal databases and issue detainers to hold inmates for 48 hours past their release date so ICE can
take them into custody if it chooses. Prince William and Culpeper counties are the only localities in Virginia that currently hold 287(g) agreements with ICE. The Prince William County Adult Detention Center has transferred 6,503 inmates to ICE custody since 2011, according See CANDIDATES, page 4
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