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Volume 66 Number 23 • June 17, 2021
GCPS unveils updated policy on homework By Roslyn Ryan Editor
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During a June 8 stop at Maidens’ Hill Top Distillery, U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-7, joined a roundtable discussion with area distillers, who shared with her how they are recovering from the economic upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Spanberger visits with area distillers Meeting at Maidens’ Hill Top was chance to check in on how relief measures are helping
was able to share her family’s story with U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger, who toured Hill Top and participated in a roundFor the owners of Hill Top Distillery in table discussion about how local businesses Maidens, the road to recovery post-pandemic are recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging. see Hill Top > 3 On June 8, co-owner Sherry Brockenbrough By Roslyn Ryan Editor
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After several months of work by a committee of stakeholders including students, parents, teachers and school administrators, the Goochland County Public Schools’ homework policy is set to get a major overhaul ahead of students returning to class in August. On June 8, county school board members approved the revised policy document on first reading, with several board members noting that the changes would help ensure equity for all students and also offer teachers improved guidelines for assigning homework. According to GCPS Assistant Superintendent of Instruction Stephen Geyer, the updates to the homework policy are intended to both modernize and expand on a directive that was previously only around half a page long and offered only a basic framework for what constituted appropriate homework. The updated policy, Geyer explained, goes into far greater detail on what the policy drafters refer to as “effective homework design,”
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