January 29, 2021
Dear FCCPS Family,
The weather forecast is calling for potential snow on Sunday and Monday, and we’d like to proactively tell you our plan so that staff and families can prepar...
January 22, 2021
Dear FCCPS Family,
As your Superintendent, I am responsible for ensuring the health and wellness of those under my care while fulfilling our commitment to a high-quality educat...
December 21, 2020
Falls Church Community,
On December 8th, the Falls Church School Board voted to proceed with the process of renaming two of the division’s schools. The renaming process will f...
December 18, 2020
Dear FCCPS Families,
First and foremost, I want to thank all of you for your incredible support throughout the first part of this school year. Your dedication to your children ...
December 11, 2020
Dear FCCPS Families,
It has been a long couple of weeks for all of us. I hope you were able to take some time to read my message regarding the Board’s decision to rename both G...
December 2, 2020
Dear FCCPS Families,
Today, we received updated data from the Virginia Department of Health for our region. Unfortunately, the information has not changed from last week when w...
November 25, 2020
Dear FCCPS Families & Staff Members,
This is not the letter I wanted to send to our community the afternoon before Thanksgiving. This morning we received updates from the...
November 20, 2020
Dear FCCPS Families,
This week we were able to reach a huge milestone in our reopening efforts safely. All of our K-5 Elementary grades returned for hybrid instruction. It ha...
November 16, 2020
Dear FCCPS Families,
As we have stated all along, we have and will continue to review data and make decisions based on what we see with respect to health, operational, and inst...
November 13, 2020
Dear FCCPS Families,
We had a fantastic reopening with our Kindergarten and 3rd students this week! Thank you to our teams at Thomas Jefferson and Mount Daniel for all of their...
November 6, 2020
Dear FCCPS Families,
This has been an unusual and stressful week for us all (a common refrain it seems). Despite the election and politics, we continue to be focused on monitor...
October 23, 2020
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Dear FCCPS Families,
It has been another busy week full of outstanding online learning opportunities provided by our excepti...
October 21, 2020
Dr. Warren Pace passed away on Sunday, October 18 (1928-2020).
He served as FCCPS Superintendent for 20 years, from 1971 to 1991. He is pictured above with former superintend...
October 16, 2020
Dear FCCPS Families,
Thank you so much for your continued support of our schools. I wanted to send a quick update today to ensure the communication continues to flow. There are...
September 25, 2020
Dear FCCPS Families,
I hope you all are doing well and staying healthy. Last week I sent you a very long email updating where we are with respect to reopening plans for our sch...
September 18, 2020
Dear FCCPS Families,
It has been a couple of weeks since you have heard directly from me, and I feel like the time is right to update you on some of the many things that are ha...
September 8, 2020
Farrell Kelly is an 8th Grade Teacher at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School, NBCT and President of the Falls Church City Education Association
The last six months have been c...
September 8, 2020
NBC4's Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder reports on the first day of all-virtual school in Falls Church.
August 26, 2020
FCCPS Transportation is preparing for that time when students return to school. The staff has been participating in training, cleaning buses, and addressing minor maintenance is...
August 14, 2020
Dear FCCPS Families,
Happy Friday, everyone. This was a big week for us in FCCPS as we welcomed our new staff and faculty to our system and began the onboarding process. Yester...