{"id":8105,"date":"2018-01-15T20:04:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=8105"},"modified":"2018-01-15T19:48:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T00:48:29","slug":"meet-new-superintendent-january-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=8105","title":{"rendered":"Meet the New Superintendent on January 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Join us on January 20 for a \u201ccommunity meet and greet\u201d with newly appointed ACPS Superintendent Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr., who will start in the role on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>The meet and greet will take place on\u00a0<strong>Saturday, January 20\u00a0at\u00a0<\/strong><strong>10 &#8211; 11 a.m. in the media center at\u00a0George Washington Middle School<\/strong>, 1005 Mount Vernon Ave. Alexandria.\u00a0Coffee and bagels will be provided.\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mailtoshanel.hill@acps.k12.va.us\">RSVP by January 18<\/a> appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Alexandria City School Board selected Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr., a graduate of T.C. Williams High School, as superintendent of ACPS. The news was received with an overwhelmingly warm response from the community. Although Dr. Hutchings won\u2019t be fully on board until this summer, he\u2019ll be in town the weekend of January 19 to reconnect with the Alexandria community.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hutchings grew up in the West End and came up through the ranks of ACPS. He attended\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/Domain\/14\">Patrick Henry<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/Domain\/23\">William Ramsay<\/a>\u00a0Elementary Schools followed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/Domain\/21\">Mount Vernon Community School<\/a>. He then attended\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/Domain\/22\">James K. Polk Elementary School<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/Domain\/10\">Francis C. Hammond Middle School<\/a>. He graduated from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/Domain\/8\">T.C. Williams High School<\/a>\u00a0in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hutchings, served as the director of middle school programs, then director of pre-K-12 initiatives with ACPS before becoming the superintendent of Shaker Heights Schools, located in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=7907\">Read more about Dr. Hutchings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We hope to see you there<strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families and community members are invited to attend a meet and greet with our new Superintendent, Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr., on Saturday, January 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8106,"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":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acps","category-announcements"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 18:52:15","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\/8105","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=8105"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8128,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions\/8128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}