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Arlington Mill Community Center was alive with sights and sounds over the weekend, as the Festival Latinoamericano brought out singing, dancing, cultural activities, food and more to honor Hispanic Heritage Month. Above, members of the Bolivian dance troupe Fundación Unidos por una Sonrisa were among the highlights of the celebration. Find more in a slide show of photos on the PHOTO BY DEB KOLT Web site at www.insidenova.com/news/arlington.
Yipes: 2017 General Assembly Session Is on the Horizon The Leadership Center for Excellence will host a town-hall meeting with members of the Arlington delegation to the General Assembly on Tuesday, Oct. 25 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Arlington campus of George Mason University. The event will give attendees the opportunity to bring up issues of concern in state governance, and allow lawmakers to discuss their priorities for the 2017
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session of the General Assembly, which convenes in January. State Sens. Barbara Favola (D-31st) and Adam Ebbin (D-30th) and Dels. Patrick Hope (D-47th), Rip Sullivan (D-48th), Alfonso Lopez (D-49th) and Mark Levine (D-45th) are expected to participate. The event will be moderated by Scott McCaffrey of the Sun Gazette, and is sponsored by Graham Holdings
The official count of students at Arlington Public Schools for 2016-17 shows an increase of 3.6 percent from a year before, but the number is lower than had been projected by school officials in the spring. A total of 26,152 students were accounted for as of Sept. 30, the date local school districts conduct a formal tally for the Virginia Department of Education. That’s up 914 students – the equivalent of a middle school – from the number in class at the same point last year, and is up 23 percent from the 21,241 students in class in the fall of 2010. While on the rise, the student count was 262 below what Arlington school officials had projected. And it falls in the middle of the growth curve over the last five years, higher than the 2.9-percent year-over-rear rate of 2015 but lower than the 5.2-percent rate of 2014. In part to address the growing enrollment, which is percolating up from elementary schools to the secondary level, county school officials continue to work on a boundary-adjustment process involving Arlington’s three primary high schools. The effort kicks into high gear this month, with School Board action slated for December. Current students at Wakefield, WashingtonLee and Yorktown high schools will be grandfathered in, but incoming students could be affected. It won’t be the last boundary-change effort at the high-school level, as school officials are expected to revisit things again in 2020 for the 2022-23 school year. “That process could potentially impact a lot more students,” said Lisa Stengel, the school system’s director of planning and evaluation. – Scott McCaffrey