<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Arlington </title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/education/va/arlington?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><description>Arlington </description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Condolences  Pour In for Va.  Crash Victims]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12256-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12256-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When they heard about Monday's fatal school bus crash in Arlington, the students  --  from John Adams and James K. Polk elementary schools  --  wanted to help.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Va. Football Players Warm to New Goal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7956-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7956-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The seniors on a Fairfax County high school football team got a glimpse yesterday of their cameo appearance in a soon-to-be-released television  film, but their thoughts were not of stardom or the silver screen. These players were dreaming about saving the nation's wetlands.]]></description><author> Maria Glod</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crash Devastates 2nd Family]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8048-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8048-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Maria Garcia fastened a photograph of her cousin Harrison Orosco to a tree in front of his house yesterday morning. Then she walked around the yard and picked up two soccer balls and a volleyball and placed them under the picture of the 7-year-old boy who would not be playing with them anymore.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Picking a School Is a Multiple-Choice Question]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1132-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1132-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Washington area parents enjoy an increasing choice of schools for their children. There are regular public schools, magnet public schools, charter public schools and, for parents with enough money, private schools, some faith-oriented and some not.]]></description><author> Jay Mathews</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Bus Stop, Holding On a Bit Tighter]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2458-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2458-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Before Gisela Zuniga shepherded her 4-year-old daughter, Noelia, onto a bus heading to Arlington County's Hoffman-Boston Elementary School yesterday morning, she planted a kiss on the little girl's cheek and patted her shoulder.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bus Wreckage Is Searched for Answers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2459-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2459-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Investigators have ruled out major mechanical problems but came no closer to determining what caused an Arlington County school bus and a trash truck to collide.]]></description><author> Leef Smith and David Cho</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common Worst Nightmare Links School Bus Drivers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3039-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3039-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In her 11 years driving a school bus, Linda Farbry woke every morning and said the same prayer: "Please, don't let anything happen to my bus today." She used to think: You pass safety training. You check your mirrors. You drive carefully. But anything can happen. That driver, bloodied and screaming by the side of the road in Arlington on Monday? That could have been you.]]></description><author> Brigid Schulte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[School Bus Crash a Horrifying Scene]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62496-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62496-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Lilibeth Gomez, 9, died after the bus she was riding collided head-on with a trash truck in Arlington Monday. One other child and both drivers were seriously injured.]]></description><author> Jamie Stockwell and Leef Smith</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visions of Last Hugs, Goodbyes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64028-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64028-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Through the long afternoon yesterday, family, friends and neighbors streamed into the small yellow Arlington bungalow where 9-year-old Lilibeth Gomez had lived with her parents, her four sisters and her brother.]]></description><author> Maria Glod</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence Speaks Volumes About Gay Support]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51707-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51707-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ One girl wondered what her choir teacher would say later when half the class refused to utter a sound.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riders Focus on Bus Service at Metro Town Meeting in Va.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48596-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48596-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The room was nearly as crowded as an Orange Line train at rush hour as the leaders of the Metro transit system held a town hall meeting last night in Falls Church.]]></description><author> Steven Ginsberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Touch of Fame for Three Teachers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47827-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47827-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's the first time any Virginia teacher has been inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame and the first time two teachers have been selected from the same district, Arlington, in the same year.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments Relying on Area Property Owners]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44858-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44858-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The boom in local real estate prices has been accompanied by increasing tax bills as governments have spurned tax cuts in favor of reaping billions more from homeowners.]]></description><author> Peter Whoriskey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schools Seeing Wisdom in Having Defibrillators]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38751-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38751-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Loudoun County has them. So does Fauquier. Now Fairfax County school officials are considering placing portable defibrillators, devices that could save the life of someone in cardiac arrest, in all schools and administration buildings, and training staff members to use them.]]></description><author> Maria Glod</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fairfax Defers to Army on Charge in Soldier's Killing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28424-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28424-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[An involuntary manslaughter case against a soldier charged with killing his roommate in Annandale has been dismissed so that the Army can pursue a murder charge against him, authorities said yesterday.]]></description><author> Tom Jackman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diocese Rethinks School Site]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20204-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20204-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a zoning application for a Roman Catholic high school near South Riding. But the Catholic Diocese of Arlington, which will run the school, might not need it for a while: Church officials say that the project has been delayed and that it could end up in another spot.]]></description><author> Karin Brulliard</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biohazard Procedures To Change]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3674-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3674-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Defense Department is changing how it handles biohazard threats following a March 14 anthrax scare at the Pentagon and nearby office buildings.]]></description><author> Spencer S. Hsu</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Off the Cuff' Is on the Mark for Laughs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58654-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58654-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Funerals are generally not laughing matters. Nor are car accidents or calamities involving loss of limbs. But Steve Heaton and David Sly, co-founders and stars of Loudoun improv comedy group Off The Cuff, aren't stumped by the tragic or the morbid when they're on stage. Faithful adherents of the mantra "life is funny," they manage to find humor in just about everything, though audiences constantly challenge them.]]></description><author> Julia Feldmeier</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small N.Y. Town Buries a Favorite Son at Arlington]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48569-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48569-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On Feb. 15, Army Pfc. Michael Anthony Arciola, 20, of Elmsford, N.Y., was shot and killed by insurgents in Al Ramadi, Iraq.]]></description><author> Lila de Tantillo</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disputed 9/11 Flag Goes For $25,000]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48151-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48151-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_education/va/arlington</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:22:24 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The eBay auction ended just after 6:30 p.m. with the high bidder pledging $25,000 to take home an American flag that may or may not have flown at the Pentagon on Sept. 11. 2001, depending on whom you ask.]]></description><author> Leef Smith</author></item></channel></rss>