{"id":7660,"date":"2017-11-12T20:10:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T01:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2017-11-10T17:06:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T22:06:26","slug":"youname-new-west-end-school-time-send-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=7660","title":{"rendered":"What Would You Name the New West End School? It&#8217;s Time to Send in Your Recommendations!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Would you like to have a say in the naming of the West End Elementary School?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The School Board\u2019s West End Elementary School Naming Committee is now seeking recommendations for names for the new school at 1701 N. Beauregard Street.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time in 17 years Alexandria City has had the opportunity to name a new school. We hope students, families and community members will participate in this process by sending recommendations now through January 3, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acpsweb.wufoo.com\/forms\/q11h4xi61jyhuok\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7694 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Name-English.png\" alt=\"Recommend a name for West End Elementary School - English\" width=\"370\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Name-English.png 370w, https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Name-English-260x22.png 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acpsweb.wufoo.com\/forms\/qv3sci10lvdmti\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7693 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Name-Spanish.png\" alt=\"Recommend a name for the West End Elementary School - Spanish\" width=\"414\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Name-Spanish.png 414w, https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Name-Spanish-260x20.png 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>or see the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/westend\"> West End Elementary School page<\/a> on the ACPS website<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Per School Board policy, the Committee will present at least three recommendations to the Board in early February 2018 for its consideration and approval. The final selection of a name for the new school is the responsibility of the School Board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Recommendations may include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. presidents<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Virginia historical figures<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Places or historical events related to the facility or the location<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">A person, business or corporation that has made a significant or extraordinary contribution to the City of Alexandria, in the context of education, public service or involvement in civic or cultural activities over an extended period of time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">Please avoid names that cause confusion with other Virginia public schools or facilities, including names that have the same initials as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/domain\/817\">another ACPS school<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more details regarding the naming process, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/westend\">ACPS website<\/a>, or contact the Clerk of the School Board at <a href=\"mailto:boardclerk@acps.k12.va.us\">boardclerk@acps.k12.va.us.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alexandria City School Board\u2019s West End Elementary School Naming Committee is now seeking recommendations for names for the new school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acps","category-ferdinand-day"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 04:48:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7687,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions\/7687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}