Meeting with Delegate and Leader Charniele Herring On Friday January, 23rd 2026, School Board Chair Michelle Rief, Board Members Abdulahi Abdalla and Alexander Crider Scioscia and Student Representative Darwin Salazar joined ACPS parents and students attending Virginia PTA Capitol Day. We visited the State Capitol in Richmond and met with legislators to advocate for increased funding for our schools, including: Changing Virginia’s K-12 funding formula from a staffing-based mo

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

On July 10, 2025 the School Board in an 8-0 vote (Board Member Ryan Rena was absent), elected Michelle Rief to her third, one year, term...