Members of the Springfield Park Elementary School Rubik's Cube team work to solve 25 cubes during the team competition of the Henrico Schools' Rubik's Cube Tournament March 10, 2025. (Liana Hardy/Henrico Citizen)
Henrico Schools officials are proposing a change to the Code of Student Conduct that would require middle and high school students to keep their cell phones tucked away, either in their backpacks or division storage containers, for the entire school day.
The division’s current cell phone policy requires middle-
In 1894, the current site of the campus at Virginia Randolph was the site of a one-room schoolhouse where Virginia Randolph – the daughter of former slaves and a woman who would later become one of the most prominent educators in the American South – began her teaching career in Henrico.
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Students at Fairfield Middle School will have to keep their cell phones off and away for the entire school day starting April 7 until May 16, according to a social media message posted by the school April 4.
The new rule only applies to Fairfield Middle students, who returned from