Henrico School Board sets work session on budget
The School Board will hold a budget work session Tuesday with a public input session to allow residents to comment on the proposed fiscal 2013 plan.
The proposed $504.5 million spending plan currently has a $26.3 million shortfall. According to the proposal, no employees would lose jobs, but 58.1 full-time equivalent positions are proposed to be eliminated through attrition.
The pupil-teacher ratio is proposed to increase by .25 to accommodate cutting 28.5 instructional positions.
The district also proposes to change its retirement program by scaling retirees' pay back to 16 percent for 20 days of work. The district also is proposing to implement recommendations of a transportation efficiency review that would save $2.03 million.
The board's work session begins at 2 p.m., with the public input session starting at 5 p.m. The meeting will take place in the gymnasium of Twin Hickory Elementary School, 4900 Twin Hickory Lake Drive.
R-MC to honor alumna who died in Japan quake
Randolph-Macon College will host a lecture to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the earthquake in Japan that took the life of alumna Taylor Anderson.
The college will host the Taylor Anderson/Japan Foundation Lecture, "Postscripts from Japan: Stories that Endure After the Earthquake and Tsunami," on March 11 at 4 p.m. in Blackwell Auditorium, R-MC Center for the Performing Arts.
The keynote speaker will be National Public Radio correspondent Yuki Noguchi, who filed reports from the disaster area in Japan, including the city where Anderson lived. Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki will attend the program and deliver brief remarks.
Anderson graduated from R-MC in 2008 and taught in Ishinomaki for the Japan Exchange and Teaching program.
Hampden-Sydney wins 13th annual Ethics Bowl
Hampden-Sydney College won the 13th annual intercollegiate Ethics Bowl held Feb. 12-13 at Shenandoah University.
The competition featured student teams from 15 private colleges and universities deliberating case studies on the theme of ethics and integrity in campus relationships.
Hampden-Sydney defeated Sweetbriar College in the final round of the Ethics Bowl, a program of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges.
All-girl chess tourney to be held at Norfolk State
International chess grandmaster Susan Polgar will lend her support to girls chess and the inaugural Virginia Queens All-Girl Championships.
The Norfolk Initiative for Chess Excellence will hold the state's first all-girl chess scholarship championships on March 3 at Norfolk State University. The top two girls (one each from the rated and unrated sections) will receive $1,000 scholarships. This tournament to determine the girls state chess champion is free and open to all Virginia girls ages 5 to 18.
On March 2 at 3 p.m., Polgar will celebrate Women's History Month at the Chrysler Museum of Art to play a 15-person simultaneous match with five girls, five boys and five Navy chess players. The event is free to the public.
From staff and wire reports
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