Partnership Update
October 2024
 Follow Food For Neighbors Red Bag
Supporting our Ignite Partner Food for Neighbors and their teen hunger-fighting Red Bag Program is easy and rewarding.
For community members, simply:
- Request a Bag.
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Fill a Bag.
- Leave Your Bag Out for Pickup.
That's it! Your contributions will go directly to help feed more than 8,300 students across 47 middle and high schools in Northern Virginia.
Now have a look at this short video story about Food for Neighbors and marvel at the seamless logistics that make this award-winning program so successful.
Video en Español.
Become a Red Bag Donor Today!
 Meet Tiggbee
Where Professions are Shared With Students
Businesses looking to expand their reach to potential future employees (FCPS students) need not look further than Tiggbee. Tiggbee is an interactive video-driven platform that places your business in front of students to inspire curiosity and fuel their aspirations in weekly five-minute video events.
This FCPS-approved platform makes it easy for employees to explain their careers, highlighting their educational and career pathways.
Tiggbee offers businesses opportunities to:
- Replace limitations of traditional one-time career fairs.
- Engage students who watch captivating career-focused videos.
- Give students first-hand knowledge of how their skills and education may be used at your company.
- Build meaningful awareness of your company and the associated career fields.
- Create passionate future employees.
- Give back to your community and industry.
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Together with Tiggbee, FCPS is minimizing the workload to engage in workforce development, while maximizing impact.
Local employers are encouraged to join Tiggbee to shape your content and message with their creative team, set an event and Q&A dates, and repeat.
We’ll get the students there!
 FCPS 2024 Alumni Hall of Hall of Fame Announced
Educate Fairfax is delighted to present the third annual FCPS Alumni Hall of Fame honoring distinguished alumni of Fairfax County Public Schools. The announcement of this year’s Hall of Fame inductees was made Wednesday, September 25, at a special evening event at the Tower Club in Tysons Corner.
This year's class of inductees spans five decades and represents a broad range of professional experience and expertise. The honorees are:
- Amanda Andere Herndon High School Class of 1998
- Michael Batt George C. Marshall High School Class of 1982
- Callie Brownson Mount Vernon High School Class of 2007
- General James R. Clapper Annandale High School Class of 1959
- Gavin Myers James Madison High School Class of 1993
- Tony Perkins Mount Vernon High School Class of 1977
- Sumeet Shrivastava Robinson Secondary School Class of 1984
- Todd Stottlemyer West Springfield High School Class of 1984
More than 100 people attended the Educate Fairfax FCPS Hall of Fame induction event where the audience heard inspiring stories from the alumni, every one of them mentioning the impact of a Fairfax County Public Schools education on their successes.
Educate Fairfax, its staff, and its board, believe that a vibrant and successful school system contributes to a great quality of life in Fairfax County. By highlighting amazing graduates, they are drawing connections to excellence for tomorrow’s stellar community leaders — students in our schools right now.
The mission of Educate Fairfax is to energize the power of the community to invest in educational excellence and prepare students for the future. The foundation supports programs that impact students, families, faculty, staff, and schools in FCPS, from Kids in Need to Educate Fairfax Grants, to Innovators Funds, FCPS Alumni and Friends, and Employee Recognition. Announced at the Alumni Hall of Fame event, a new program is encouraging donors to support scholarships for deserving students headed off to college or directly into the workplace.
Learn about our work and how you can help.
Help us build our online alumni community by visiting FCPS Alumni & Friends. Join the network!
Thank you to Educate Fairfax’s Annual Sponsors as well: Apple Federal Credit Union, Cigna, Cox Business, Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, Guernsey, Inc., I-66 Express Mobility Partners, Kaiser Permanente, Moseley Architects, and Ricoh, USA.
     
 Free Student Bus Passes Supports Work-Based Learning
All Fairfax County middle and high school students can get a Student Bus Pass SmarTrip card to ride the Fairfax Connector and Fairfax CUE buses for free. With the pass, fares are free from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week, all year. Children 12 and younger ride for free on the Fairfax Connector with a paying adult.
Additionally, students at Justice, Annandale, Falls Church, and Marshall high schools, and Davis Center can ride Metrobus for free.
 FCPS Trust Policy Supports Caring Culture
FCPS is proud of its caring culture and strives to provide a safe, welcoming, and inclusive space for all students and families. The FCPS Trust Policy solidifies this commitment and aligns with Fairfax County Government’s Public Trust and Confidentiality Policy. It ensures that FCPS students and families can access FCPS benefits and services including business and community partnerships without fear that information will be disclosed, directly or indirectly, to federal immigration officials.
Please visit our Trust Policy webpage to learn more about the policy and regulation in multiple languages.
 All Fairfax County Public Schools Accredited
We are proud to have all Fairfax County public schools accredited by the Virginia Department of Education.
We have seen marked improvement with 191 of our schools improving chronic absenteeism rates. FCPS has many students taking rigorous courses — far higher than the national average. The division also continues to see other state indicators improving, including Standards of Learning (SOL) pass rates and graduation rates. Read more about all our schools receiving accreditation.
FCPS Continues to Surpass State and Global SAT Averages
Fairfax County seniors in the class of 2024 continued to perform well above state and global averages on the SAT, according to results released by the College Board.
The Fairfax County average score for the class of 2024 (1178) was higher than the state average (1101) and the global average (1024). Read more about the latest SAT results.
 So Much Generosity - Thank You!
Each summer our community comes together to support the annual Collect for Kid school supply and backpack drive. Each year your thoughtful generosity wows us.
Individuals, for-profit companies, and not-for-profits from all over the county pulled together and conducted collection and sorting drives. Then they distributed learning materials to schools all over FCPS.
Thank you to all who gave and got involved — too many to list. Thank you as well to Educate Fairfax, the school division’s designated foundation for leading the Kids in Need monetary collection and to Campus Survival Kits for being the lead organization to help buy-in-bulk and deliver goods.
   
November Newsletter
Because of some scheduled leave, the Partnership Update newsletter will likely be shorter or miss the month of November. Thank you for understanding.
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