8 high schools in Fairfax County (Va.) district to get synthetic turf fields

The Fairfax County (Va.) School Board has voted to spend $1.5 million to install synthetic turf fields at eight high schools. Burke Patch says the fields will be installed at Thomas A. Edison High School, Mount Vernon High School, South County Secondary School, J.E.B. Stuart High School, West Potomac High School, Annandale High School, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology and Hayfield Secondary School. The funding is contingent on the County Board of Supervisors approval in September.