The task required more than four hours, wrangling and the elimination of 10 positions. The members of the school board for Bedford County Public Schools ultimately balanced the division's budget Thursday with cuts and adjustments that trimmed about $1.5 million from the $100.2 million budget the board had previously approved. The cuts became necessary earlier this week after the Bedford County Board of Supervisors adopted a county budget that included less for the schools than school officials had hoped.
About 5:15 p.m. Thursday, Bedford Hardware's window still displayed a placard that read: "It's not too late school board. Keep all our schools open. Actually, members of the school board for Bedford County Public Schools had already reached consensus Tuesday to do just that -- but with an asterisk. Bedford Primary, a K-2 school, would remain open, but serve preschoolers only.
Sometimes good news isn't good enough. And in the real world a dollar bill stretches only infinitesimally when tugged like a rope from both ends. Bedford County Public Schools, like other regional school systems struggling with state and federal funding cuts, has been in a tug of war for at least four years. Bedford school officials, like many counterparts, now confront the prospect of closing schools and eliminating 67 more positions to produce a balanced budget.
Money talks and sometimes walks, and about $1.1 million seems all but destined to walk away from the fiscal 2011-12 budget for Bedford County Public Schools. Turns out that county supervisors weren't just talking April 4 when they threatened to withhold the added funding if the school board's budget called for the closing of Bedford Primary School.
School board members for Bedford County Public Schools voted unanimously Thursday night to close Bedford Primary School for the upcoming school year. But they spared Body Camp Elementary School the same fate. After the vote, which followed a meeting that stretched nearly four hours, at least one Bedford Primary parent fought tears.
Strong emotions and behaviors, from defiant resolve to derisive laughter, reigned again Thursday night during a regular meeting of the school board for Bedford County Public Schools. Last week, the board voted unanimously to approve a budget for fiscal year 2011-12 that called for the closure of Bedford Primary School, among other cuts, including layoffs.
Push back. Douglas Schuch, superintendent of funding-challenged Bedford County Public Schools, and four school board members endured nearly three hours of it Tuesday night at Bedford Primary School.
Corrections Bedford Primary School is owned by Bedford County Public Schools. A story in Wednesday's newspaper contained incorrect information.
A 20-year-old Bedford County man's claim last week that he'd been shot by another man who fled into the woods prompted at the time a full-bore response from at least three law enforcement agencies and the county's public schools system because of the proximity of the reported shooting to four schools. It turns out Forest resident Marshall Lee Patterson lied, according to the Bedford County Sheriff's Office. He accidentally shot himself that day, Maj. Ricky Gardner said Thursday.
Anne Carroll Reynolds and Charles Wade Simmons were married on June 25, 2011, at Thrasher Memorial United Methodist Church in Vinton. A reception following the ceremony was held at the Vinton War Memorial. Anne is the daughter of Jim and Betty Reynolds of Vinton and Huddleston, and the granddaughter of Jimmy and Anita Reynolds of Vinton and Paul and Lucille Phillippe of Staunton. Chad is the son of Billy and Bonnie Simmons of Fincastle and the grandson of Bill and Myrtle Simmons of Fincastle and Morris and Greta Duncan of Roanoke. Anne is employed by Bedford County Public Schools and will finish her Master's Degree in School Counseling in December 2011. Chad is in his final year of Law School at Appalachian School of Law and will graduate in May 2012.
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