What’s News Today: Business expansion, death penalty
Here’s a look at some of the stories we’ll be following today as they make headlines across the country and Southwest Virginia.
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The Botetourt County School Board will hold an organizational meeting, where it will elect a chair and vice-chair. The board will then get an update on the construction of the new Colonial Elementary School. It will also look at the draft calendar for the next school year, which has classes starting on Aug. 11 and ending on May 25.
The City of Roanoke’s Equity and Empowerment Advisory Board will meet today. The board was formed to review priorities for equity, to be incorporated into the city’s long-range plan and develop implementation policies and actions. Due to the pandemic, the public cannot attend in person, but can watch on Facebook.
COVID-19 wreaked havoc on Botetourt County schoolsâ way of doing things, but the distance learning that it enforced also opened a new niche in the division: a virtual learning academy.
School officials are in the early stages of developing a perennial online school that would begin in fall 2021. In January, they will present their plan to students and parents.
Administrators for the past couple of months have been outlining the plan to the Botetourt County School Board, to mostly positive responses.
âCOVID, while it is a bad thing, has given us this silver lining, in that we have to now force ourselves to be flexible enough to pivot into a virtual program,â board member Tim Davidick, who represents the Valley District, said during the boardâs November meeting.