Statements

March 27, 2026 letter from Dr. Michelle Rief to Council on the collective bargaining units in ACPS

The Alexandria City School Board requests that the City Council postpone its scheduled vote on March 10, 2026, regarding the Resolution of Intent to transition ACPS appropriations from lump-sum to classification-based appropriation under Virginia Code § 22.1-94.

Dear Alexandria City Public Schools Employees and Families, Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) has made the decision to ask the court to join the appeals recently filed by Arlington Public Schools and Fairfax County Public Schools in the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the repeated threats of the United States Department of Education to deprive ACPS students of federal funds. Staff within the U.S. Department of Education have claimed that ACPS’ Nondiscrimina

Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) understands that members of the community are concerned regarding ACPS’s stance with respect to the recent Letter of Findings and proposed Voluntary Resolution Agreement (VRA) recently issued by the United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Accordingly, we want to make the community aware that ACPS has today informed OCR that it disagrees with the legal analysis in the Letter of Findings, and cannot agree to the