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Erin Greene, the third-grade teacher at Northwest Elementary School who was a finalist for the state’s Beginning Teacher of the Year award in 2019, moved higher in the echelon of educators Tuesday night when she was named LCPS Teacher of the Year for 2024-2025.
The new school year will find new principals at three LCPS elementary schools after the Lenoir County Board of Education approved personnel recommendations by Superintendent Brent Williams on Monday night.
Their jobs were different – teacher, teacher assistant, bus driver, custodian, school administrator, district administrator – but they all shared a dedication to making sure students had a good school year. For nearly a thousand years, when their careers are added up.
In previous years, the Needs-Based Public School Capital Fund Fund Grant structure prohibited Lenoir County Public Schools from using both lottery funds and grant funds to replace E.B. Frink Middle School. It required all districts who were awarded the grants to return all lottery funds for the period of the grant. In LCPS’s case, it was five years.
Charles White backed into a career in computers and technology. Going forward, he’s a candidate for an award honoring the state’s best public school technology director.
Lenoir County Public School employees who together have amassed 806 years of service to schools and school children were honored Wednesday for their loyalty, their longevity and, as Superintendent Brent Williams said, for doing “that which has never been done before.”
Seven LCPS educators whose work helps ensure the quality of the district’s standard-setting digital learning initiative have earned their Rethink Education Facilitator Badge from the N.C. Department of Instruction as members of the initial cohort trained to become experts in how to use new statewide blended learning models that add online learning to existing classroom teaching.
Thursday, June 10th, Crown Manufacturing and Lenoir County Public Schools announced that Gavin Pittman, Connor MacIntosh, Austin Rivenbark, and Elijah Stroud are the 2021 recipients of the Youth Apprenticeship Program.
The Lenoir County Board of Education met in person Monday for the first time in 2021 and unanimously voted to transition middle and high schools to adopt option A under the pandemic policies for school reopening. “In Lenoir County, we already had four days a week available for some students, the problem is that it wasn’t available for all students,” said Lenoir County Public Schools Superintendent Brent Williams.
A COVID-19 vaccine event was held at three public high schools in Lenoir County to offer the staff of Lenoir County Public School District the opportunity to receive a vaccine should they choose to do so. “It's been a great day so far, the clinics are going well,” said Brent Williams, Superintendent of Lenoir County Public Schools. “There is a lot of enthusiasm and excitement. We're so pleased that we're able to get this opportunity for our staff members. They're excited and they signed up. It's happening today and it's become a reality for them.”
In a unanimous 7-0 decision, the Lenoir County Board of Education voted Monday evening to allow K-12 students a four day school week beginning next semester. According to Superintendent Brent Williams, applications for the four-day school week should be online Tuesday. In other business, Bruce Hill was voted as Chairman and W. D. Anderson was voted as Vice-Chairman. This story is developing and will be reported in-depth come Tuesday.
Congratulations to LCPS Superintendent Brent Williams, who was today named 2020 A. Craig Phillips North Carolina Superintendent of the Year.
Yesterday, the North Carolina Senate passed legislation to protect school funding and hold local school districts harmless for potential reductions in funding due to lower student enrollment. This is especially welcome news in rural North Carolina, where Tier One, economically distressed counties are already struggling.
Lenoir County Public Schools Board Chairman Keith King and Superintendent Brent Williams discuss what happens after May 15, graduation for seniors, providing meals to students while out of school and more.
Governor Cooper signed an executive order closing N.C. schools until May 15, which impacted all the students of North Carolina. A group hardest hit by this are the 2020 graduates who have had their senior year interrupted by COVID-19. The education leaders of area schools are reaching out to share the messages of encouragement to local seniors.
