SGA Officer Candidates

SGA Officer Candidates 2010 Elections on Tuesday March 23rd and Wednesday March 24th. Douglas Boatwright 10th Rawan Al Halali 11th Khadeja Tipu 11th Pricilla Hue 11th Cecile Marsh 11th Darren Foreman 11th Emmanuel Sarpong 11th

Snow Strands T.C. Marketing Classes in Warm Florida

On Thursday February 4th, the marketing classes of T.C. left Reagan National Airport for Orlando, Florida to participate in a program taking place at Disney World. Along with their four chaperones the students attended an annual program at Disney called Youth Education Series (Y.E.S.). Y.E.S. is a behind the scenes look at the how the [...]

“TC Writes!” Winners Earn Big Money!

“TC Writes!” winners receive their money.

Editorial: Enough Blame to Go Around

Along with continual talk of T.C.’s status as a “Persistently Low Achieving” school comes a seemingly endless citywide game of finger pointing. This blame-game appears to be leaving everyone in Alexandria thinking the same thing – who is really at fault here? Truthfully, there does not appear to be one single answer to this question. [...]

TC: “Persistently Lowest Achieving”?

On March 3, 2010, the United States Department of Education (USED) informed the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) that it was posting the definition of “persistently lowest-achieving schools.” The VDOE was required to submit a revised definition and a list of persistently lowest- achieving schools. T.C. found itself in the bottom five percent of the [...]

Remedial Options for TC

Tension has been high at T.C. since the announcement on March 3rd that T.C. has been classified as a “Persistently Low Achieving” (PLA) school. T.C. Williams is currently labeled, according to the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) as a Title 1 Eligible school.  Title 1 is a sub-division of schools in which at least 35 [...]

Clendaniel Looks Forward

Principal Clendaniel gives his input on the direction he hopes to see the new principal take. He is proud of the progress that the school has made during his tenure, and is confident in T.C.’s ability to overcome the recent struggles.

Holocaust Survivor Visits TC

As a large group of T.C. sophomores gathered in the auditorium on February 4th, a small woman with a beaming smile sat in a chair on the stage. Student chatter quickly subsided as the speaker broke her silence and began what many students would call an ‘unforgettable’ speech. The guest was Eva Mozes Kor, a [...]

Model UN visits Boston

Over the weekend of February 20th, the T.C. Model UN went to a conference in Boston for high schools from all over the country. The idea of this conference was to model the way the real United Nations works and to teach students about coming together as different nations and reaching agreements. “[The conference] gave [...]

AP + Snow=Uh Oh

While many of us students were enjoying the snow-pocalypse, the teachers at T.C. were having panic attacks, especially the AP teachers. Altogether ACPS has missed ten full days of valuable school time. For the AP classes, this is one of the worst things that could have happened. With the plan to make up lost time [...]

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