Rae E. Darlington,
Prince William County Public Schools, is the principal of Graham Park Middle School. Ms. Darlington began her career in education in 1982, as a speech communication instructor at Montgomery College in Rockville, Md. In 1985, she joined the private sector as an administrative assistant to the president at Marsha Levey & Associates in Washington, D.C., where she remained for two years. After a five year respite to raise a family, she returned to her career in education and joined Prince William County Public Schools as a seventh and eighth grade language arts teacher at Beville Middle School in Woodbridge, Va. From 1994 to 1996, Ms. Darlington was on the Prince William County Public Schools Instructional Support Team. She was promoted in 1996 to assistant principal of Stonewall Jackson High School in Manassas, Va., where she remained until 1998 when she assumed her present position. Ms. Darlington holds BS and MAT degrees in speech communication and theatre from Hampton University in Virginia and the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C. respectively.