The Franklin County Family YMCA’s Land of Wonder Preschool will reopen on Monday, Jan. 25 and will offer a full preschool program for 3 to 5 y…
School board members hoping to delay reopening until a vaccination program was in place were defeated three times by 5-3 votes during Monday's…
Franklin County Public Schools on Thursday said it would move to all virtual learning for Rocky Mount Elementary School students starting Frid…
Franklin County Public Schools has implemented revised quarantine procedures for all students and staff based on guidelines from the Centers f…
Franklin County Public Schools has released its academic awards for the first nine-week grading period.
Franklin County Public Schools is hosting three, hourlong Facebook live sessions to provide updates to parents, students and the community abo…
Saturdays have become another day of learning for students and families struggling with technology through this unprecedented school year.
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Ferrum College recently raised $56,786 from more than 260 donors on Dec. 1 as part of its GivingTuesday initiative.
The Virginia Department of Education last week announced $12 million in state school security equipment grants to 489 schools in 102 school di…
Staffing shortages due to the coronavirus pandemic have once again resulted in moving Franklin County High School students to all-virtual lear…
Virginians for Veterans has given a gift to establish an endowed scholarship to benefit Ferrum College students.
During a time when tension and stress levels are high, Franklin County teachers and school staff have been receiving kind gestures from local …
A Ferrum educator was named to the latest Marquis Who’s Who biographical dictionary.
The school system learned of the positive test result Thursday. Burnt Chimney Elementary will return to the district's hybrid schedule on Nov. 30.
The Franklin County School Board intends for the parents who did not choose all-virtual learning to be able to send their children back to sch…
Ferrum College announced Wednesday that it will launch a pre-licensure Bachelor of Science in nursing program starting in January. The new pro…
A survey has been emailed to parents to gauge whether they are ready to send their public school children back to the classroom full time.
The Franklin County School Board intends to find out what it would take to having students return to school five days a week, while allowing h…
Franklin County Public Schools is implementing Canvas as its learning management system for the 2020-21 school year.
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The Virginia Board of Education has awarded its 2020 Exemplar Performance School Awards to deserving schools and school divisions throughout t…
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The Smith Mountain Lake Lions Club and the Smith Mountain Lake Lions Club Scholarship Trust continue helping Franklin County High School senio…
Franklin County Public Schools intend to get students back in the classroom beginning in August.
A months-long debate on whether to ban the Confederate flag from Franklin County students’ dress code took a turn Monday night when board memb…
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Anthony Swann, a fifth grade teacher at Rocky Mount Elementary School, has been named Franklin County’s Teacher of the Year for the 2019-20 sc…
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