For about two hours, both Shawsville Elementary School and Shawsville Middle School have been without power. The schools' facilities department has notified American Electric Power, which said they had outages reported elsewhere in the community.
Some after-school activities at the school have been canceled.
Welcome to Chalk Dust! This is your community aimed at exploring education in the New River Valley. I'm Anna Mallory. I went to public schools in West Virginia and now I cover PreK-12 education for the Roanoke Times.
I read way too many reports about improving schools and can speak in entire sentences using educational acronyms. I'll be letting you know about issues and events affecting your children, schools and tax dollars, but, more importantly, I want to know what you think. Let me know your opinions about issues in the boardroom, classroom and beyond.
