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Andrea Mefford, a Cove City native and education veteran, is providing families with an alternative to traditional schooling. Her initiative, Fearfully and Wonderfully Made Academy, aims to offer a personalized educational experience, particularly for students with special needs.
Lenoir County Public Schools will use a $282,000 grant from the state to increase the number of school resource officers in the district and to upgrade technology essential for school security.
In the past couple of weeks, I addressed the importance of following the traffic laws about school buses and the role teachers hope parents will play in encouraging their children to do well in school.
Governor Roy Cooper along with current Governor John Bel Edwards (LA) and former Governors Mike Easley (NC), Bev Perdue (NC), Jim Hunt (NC), Jim Hodges (SC), Richard Riley (SC), Ray Mabus (MS), Roy Barnes (GA), and Terry McAuliffe (VA) submitted an amicus brief in support of UNC (the University of North Carolina) in the United States Supreme Court cases challenging the consideration of race in college admissions at UNC and Harvard.
The folks from the front office of the Down East Wood Ducks, Kinston’s minor league baseball team, got the pitch they were looking for from LCPS students whose summer school assignment was to find solutions to problems identified by local businesses.
Greene Early College held their annual award day ceremony where they announced the recipients of four different scholarships. Yahir Ponce, Dorien Sutton, Lorien Stocks, Madia Harris, and Monejah Rouse, together, received a total of $18,000.
Rise Up Mentorship will start at North Lenoir and Contentnea-Savannah School (CSS). The program is a mentorship that will focus on targeting students' social, emotional, and behavioral needs in order to increase academics throughout the year.
In a recent email to parents, Arendell Parrott Academy announced plans to make adjustments to COVID-19 policies effective Monday, February 14, 2022. Those plans include mask-optional for students, staff, visitors, and sporting events, and continuing to require masks on buses and vans in compliance with federal law.
Governor Roy Cooper is again encouraging high school students in North Carolina to explore careers in cybersecurity by participating in CyberStart America, a free online cybersecurity competition sponsored by the National Cyber Scholarship Foundation and SANS Institute.
Snow Hill Primary gives out a weekly award called "Terrific Kid" awards. Each teacher at SHP chooses a student who has been responsible, shows great character, or has reached a personal goal. On Fridays, these students are presented with an award from the counselor, Mrs. McLawhorn, or an administrator and are congratulated for their hard work.
Significant financial assistance from Lenoir/Greene United Way will help Lenoir County Public Schools provide backpacks and school supplies to students who most need them.
Most who have read my columns through the years know I am a retired high school English teacher. I spent 37½ years in the classroom, so I consider myself somewhat of an authority on what parents need to do to help their children succeed in school. In addition, I have four adult children, all college graduates, who have become productive citizens. They work, raise families, pay mortgages, and do a good job “adulting.”
Lenoir County Public Schools continues to add to the roll of teachers who have earned the elite National Board Certification in North Carolina, which already leads the nation in the number of teachers who have successfully completed the rigorous evaluation process.
A group of graduating seniors and the school’s administrative assistant Beth Noble, third from left, gather for a quick selfie before commencement at Lenoir County Early College High School on Wednesday night. Students in the group are, from left, Abby Cox, Keosha Arnold, Mohamed Alhidami, Madison Sanderson, Lintorion Grandy, Tarante’ahna King and J’Miyah Dupree. Partially hidden in the background is Mikayla Murphy.
Emily Garris has been chosen as Greene Early College Teacher of the Year 2021-2022.
