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  2. Newport News Public Schools - Wikipedia

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    Website. nnschools .org. sbo .nn .k12 .va .us. Newport News Public Schools (NNPS) is a division of Newport News, Virginia that operates the city's system of public schools. As of 2021-2022, NNPS had an enrollment of 26,648. [1] NNPS employed about 2,738, including approximately 1,714 teachers.

  3. History of Newport News, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    1881–1896: tiny farming village becomes a new city. Newport News was merely an area of farm lands and a fishing village until the coming of the railroad and the subsequent establishment of the great shipyard. As a 16-year-old in 1837, Collis P. Huntington had visited the rural village known as Newport News Point.

  4. Jessie M. Rattley - Wikipedia

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    Jessie M. Rattley was born to the late Alonzo and Altona Menifield, on May 4, 1929, in Birmingham, Alabama. She attended schools in and graduated from Fairfield High School in 1947, after which she entered Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia, graduating with honors in 1951. That same year Mrs. Rattley began her teaching career at Huntington ...

  5. Newport City Council appoints Kennedy new city manager, but ...

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    Savana Dunning, Newport Daily News. May 9, 2024 at 6:54 AM. NEWPORT – While a majority of the City Council voted to appoint Navy executive Colin Kennedy as Newport’s new City Manager, the ...

  6. Newport Public Schools - Wikipedia

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    Underwood School, in southern Newport, was named after former Rhode Island House of Representatives and Senate member William J. Underwood (1837-1906). Funded with $130,000 left from the estate of Underwood, it opened in 1962 to relieve overcrowding; the city government learned about the existence of the money in 1958.

  7. Newport News High School - Wikipedia

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    In 1896, the first segregated white high school in Newport News was in the First National Bank building at Washington Ave. & 28th Street. Its first principal was Horace H. Epes. [1] It later held classes at Central School from 1899 until Central School burned down in 1913. Classes then met at John W. Daniel School which was constructed in 1908.

  8. Barry E. DuVal - Wikipedia

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    Republican. Spouse. Cynthia Wermers. Alma mater. James Madison University. Barry Eugene DuVal (born August 7, 1959) is an American politician from Virginia. He was first elected to the City Council of Newport News, Virginia in 1988, and in 1990 was elected mayor, [1] serving in that role until 1996. He has also served as the President and CEO ...

  9. Norfolk Public Schools - Wikipedia

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    33787 (2010–11 school year) [1] Teachers. 2080 (FTE) [1] Other information. Mission. The Cornerstone of a Proudly Diverse Community. Website. www.npsk12.com. The Norfolk Public Schools, also known as Norfolk City Public Schools, are the school division responsible for public education in the United States city of Norfolk, Virginia .