The Prince William Board of County Supervisors adopted a small-area plan for the Innovation Park area Tuesday night.Â
The plan covers 1,760 acres around George Mason Universityâs Science and Technology Campus just outside Manassas and creates three overlay districts â an employment center, university center and technology center â using eight different land-use designations. The plan was adopted unanimously.
Presenting the plan to the board Tuesday night, Deputy Planning Director Steve Donohoe focused largely on the university center. The county hopes to turn the area surrounding GMUâs campus into a pedestrian-oriented mixed-use town center with student housing and office space, as well as a shuttle to and from the Broad Run Virginia Railway Express station. The plan also proposes a pedestrian bridge crossing Prince William Parkway on University Boulevard and an elementary school in the town center.
School children across Prince William struggling with reading, new data show Jeanine Lawson and Peter Candland were two of three members of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors to shuffle out of a School Board training session on Implicit bias, a section of a larger training on Critical Race Theory.
With tens of thousands of children out of a classroom, School Board focused instead on racism training
Prince William County’s youngest and most vulnerable students are struggling to read.
New Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening data for the Prince William County School Division obtained exclusively by PLN show an alarming increase of students from kindergarten through third grade who need reading help. The test, required by the Virginia Department of Education to be given to children in the aforementioned grade levels, is used to identify gaps that could hinder the development of a child’s reading skills.
Updated: OmniRide runs regular service today, cancels emergency plans
Updated at December 23, 2020 - Uriah Kiser
Updated
OmniRide told us today just before 2 p.m. that the transit agency was able to operate regular service and did not active its emergency service plan, as it had planned to do on Friday, December 11, 2020.
“OmniRide ran regular service today because we determined early this morning that we had a sufficient number of bus operators to run regular service,” said OmniRide spokeswoman Christine Rodrigo.
The emergency service plan was a precaution after OmniRide had witnessed other regional transit agencies experience a high volume of drivers call out sick, including the Greater Richmond Transit Company in Richmond.