Richmond City Residents Encouraged to Attend School Planning Session

Kim Bridges, School Board Chairman and 1st District School Board Representative for Richmond City Schools is asking for local resident’s input on our schools. This is an opportunity to be heard, and suggestions will be implemented as feasible.

Are you a parent–past or present? Neighbor? Business partner? Faith community member? Someone without any connection to our city’s schools? In just 20 days you’ll have the chance to think BIG about what our schools need. Here are 3 seemingly simple, yet critical questions:

What is RPS doing that we should keep doing?

What is RPS doing that we should STOP?

What should we do that we don’t do now?

For the first time, your answers will help generate the community’s priorities and some exciting ways to improve our public school offerings, attract (and keep) more city families, and ensure that our children are prepared for future opportunities that await them.

Facilitated by Cambridge Education Partners through a collaboration with RPS, the city and the business community, these events are the first step in a community-driven, action-oriented process that will impact the class of 2012 through little ones of today who will be the class of 2017, 2018, 2019..and beyond.

The closest meeting to the Near West End is October 5 at the Science Museum of Virginia, 6-8 p.m.