Waynesboro Public Schools is in crisis: Making the case for a change at the top
At last count, 20 current teachers have reached out to us in recent weeks to share specific concerns about the status quo inside Waynesboro Public Schools.
At last count, 20 current teachers have reached out to us in recent weeks to share specific concerns about the status quo inside Waynesboro Public Schools.
Westwood Hills Elementary School will be closed on Friday, and then next Tuesday, after the Labor Day holiday, according to a release from Waynesboro Public Schools issued Thursday evening.
It seemed like Waynesboro Superintendent Jeffrey Cassell was trying to tell us that the young man who broke into Westwood Hills Elementary School, shot a school staffer, then turned the gun on himself, had no history with the city school system.
Waynesboro, Staunton and Augusta County are news deserts, per a measure from Local Journalism Index 2026, a joint project of Muck Rack and Rebuild Local News.
We got another stinging set of numbers about the lack of results from Waynesboro Public Schools this week.
Waynesboro needs an all-new School Board, an all-new City Council, and while we’re at it, we need to clean house in City Hall.
Northrop Grumman breezed into town a couple years ago promising hundreds of millions in investment and high-paying jobs. Waynesboro leaders clearly didn’t do their homework about how much the deal would end up costing us.
The pending retirement of Waynesboro Public Schools Superintendent Jeffrey Cassell is a golden opportunity for a needed reset for our city school system.
Waynesboro Public Schools Superintendent Jeffrey Cassell announced his pending retirement during tonight’s Waynesboro School Board meeting.
Eli Crawford, a former R.E. Lee High School and EMU basketball star, has been named the head boys basketball coach at Waynesboro High School.
We don’t take press releases or official statements as the final word. Digging in to get the whole story takes time and resources.