In 2019, the former ACPS School Board approved Superintendent Dr. Gregory Hutchings to form what is called the High School Project, better known as The Connected High School Network. This program was designed to further integrate students at the Chance For Change, Satellite, Minnie Howard, and King Street campuses of Alexandria City High School as one whole high school in Alexandria. The recent developments of creating a more structured and versatile campus-based high school reflects the concerns of overcrowding in the King Street campus and lack of flexibility to a high school education.
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MLB season postponed over dreams of space
Emily Milton Staff Writer The 2022 Major League Baseball season was indefinitely postponed on March 1 after MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred was upset that other important figures were allowed to travel to space, and he was not. He stated that he would only resume the baseball season after the MLB Players Association Executive Director, Tony Clark, negotiated a way for him to travel to the stars. Spring training traditionally starts in mid-February but was blocked by Manfred after being told by Clark that it was a ridiculous idea to want to see the moon, Manfred’s favorite celestial orb. Clark stated, “It’s all those stupid celebrities wanting to travel to space;…
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Safe Streets Program Receives $45,000 Grant For Updated Data Collection Methods
Any sort of roadway collision is just as traumatic, as almost being in one. “Almost-accidents” go unreported, and since the pandemic, these incidents have increased dramatically. Pedestrian fatalities in Northern Virginia increased 21% from 2019 to 2020, according to a report from the Governor’s Highway Safety Association.
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District-Sized Loss, 52-44
The A.C. played hard against the W.T. Woodsen Cavaliers in the first game of the District Championship for Boys Basketball on Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 44-52.
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Titans Defeat Number One Lions On Senior Night, 47-46
The Titans crushed Fairfax High School in the Boys Basketball game, 47-46, at The Garden on February 11, 2022, which was also the Titans’ Senior Night and the last official game of the season, excluding playoffs.
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Titans Boys’ Basketball Lose Another Close One Against Bruins, 80-84
For the second time this week, A.C. Titans faced off against the Lake Braddock Bruins in Boys Basketball on Wednesday, February 2, 2022, 80-84, at Lake Braddock. This puts the Titans at a 7-7 status for the current season.
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“Dune” Movie Review
A review of the recent sci-fi, multi-part, film adaptation that was not as successful as producers had hoped. Emily Milton Staff Writer The movie Dune: Part One is about protagonist Paul Atreides, the prince of House Atreides, who rules over the planet Caladan. His father, Duke Leto, is ordered by their governing body to take over production and distribution, on planet Arrakis, of the most lucrative commodity in the universe, spice. However, throughout the movie, events occur that send Paul on a more personal journey and put him on the path to reach his destiny as a prophesied savior. This universe was originally produced in a 6-book series by Frank…
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Action For Advancement
African Americans in the United States have only been allowed to vote for 152 years, while the U.S. has been a country for 246. That is about a hundred years that Black people in the U.S. went without voting, and even when the 15th Amendment was passed, there were many ways they were still kept from voting as equal citizens. States began creating poll taxes, where people had to pay to vote, since the time of Jim Crow Laws. Mississippi had even made a “plan” (The Mississippi Plan) to create barriers like property ownership, and literacy tests to ensure their white leaders would be elected.
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Virginia State University President Visits ACHS
On Wednesday, with counselors and staff decked out in blue and orange, President Makola M. Abdullah, Ph.D, of Virginia State University (VSU) spoke to prospective students at Alexandria City High School about why they should choose VSU, a popular Historically Black College and University (HBCU) for their post-secondary education.
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Neglected Piece of Black Culture
An overview of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and the benefits they provide to the budding adults of society.
