All in Education
It’s a little like days gone by at the Holloman household even in these days like no other. And while Coronavirus and school closure have caused Alena Rivers to miss some keepsake moments of her senior year at Kinston High School, but having to take more responsibility for her success as a student through remote learning is a life lesson she will take to UNC, Virginia or High Point – all universities that have asked her to join their student body next fall.
Greene County Schools will observe Spring Break from Friday, April 10 through Friday, April 17. School meals will still be served during the break; however, remote learning will be suspended so students and teachers can observe Spring Break.
Lenoir County Public Schools personnel have volunteered to forego time off to help the district continue to distribute no-cost lunches and breakfasts during its scheduled Easter break, which begins on Friday. LCPS Child Nutrition Director Danelle Smith and Assistant Superintendent Nicholas Harvey II, whose responsibilities include oversight of student services, announced the feeding program would continue without change or interruption on Friday, a state holiday, and during the week of April 13.
Lenoir County Public Schools released this statement on social media today, “Please be assured that LCPS will operate its feeding program unchanged for Good Friday and the week of April 13.” More details coming next week.
Jones County Health Department issued the following press release this morning. Topics in the release include the number of COVID-19 tests completed, Grab-n-Go Meals, childcare assistance, food access and other prevention tips.
Matthew Lococo, seventh grade STEM English Language Arts Teacher and Thomas Loftin, STEM Lab teacher, both received the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Promoting Innovation in Science and Mathematics Teacher Grant in the amount of $4,500.
Sen. Jim Perry and Rep. Chris Humphrey announce over $300,000 of supplemental funding for Lenoir County Public Schools for assistance with COVID-19 related issues.
When the busses rolled out of Parrott Academy on Friday, March 13, it was the end of the day, the end of the week…and the beginning of an experimental chapter in online learning for the independent school.
Two South Lenoir High School seniors who’ve known for a while what they want to do with their lives now know more about how they’re going to do it.
Maybe you are a high school senior. Maybe you are the parent of a senior. You might even be an educator, principal, friend or family member of a senior. In any case - this one is for you. Dear Seniors - we hear you. And we love you.
Congratulations to the following Pink Hill Elementary School Honor Roll for Third Nine Weeks students.
Alicia Davis has transformed a little room off the kitchen into her teacher space. It’s equipped with a small white board on an easel, a green screen she uses to produce video lessons and, on the dining room table, the laptop that is her indispensable link to the 47 students in her science and math classes.
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million grant to Lenoir Community College in Kinston, North Carolina, to support the renovation of the college’s Floyd Health Sciences Building. The EDA grant, to be matched with more than $5 million in state funding and $115,439 in local investment, is expected to create over 500 jobs.
Congratulations to the following Contentnea-Savannah K-8 School Honor Roll and Principal’s List students.
LCPS administrators scoured the entire school district for employees who could be fittingly honored as the top teacher assistant and top non-instructional staff member for 2020-2021. LCPS Teacher Assistant of the Year for 2020-21 Betty J. Sawyer, third from left, and Non-Instructional Classified Staff of the Year for 2020-21 Retenner D. Neal, third from right, were surprised at Northeast Elementary School recently.
Beginning Monday, Lenoir County Public Schools is expanding its no-cost feeding program to include delivery of meals by school bus to numerous locations throughout the county.
LCPS will also continue to operate its five locations where eligible youth can pick up meals. Those sites – at Kinston, North Lenoir and South Lenoir high schools, Southeast Elementary School and E.B. Frink Middle School – are open from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. weekdays. No dine-in service is allowed.
Congratulations to the following Moss Hill Elementary School 3rd nine weeks Principal’s List and Honor Roll students.
Congratulations to the following Pink Hill Elementary A and A/B Honor Roll for Third Nine Weeks students.
An update from Dr. Bert Bright: In the interest of safety and after consultation with many authorities, we have decided to keep our campus closed and continue online instruction through April 17, 2020. All school-related activities and ceremonies that were planned from March 16 through April 17 have been canceled, including Terra Nova testing and our prom. (Given the stated importance of the prom to our students, if we return to school later this spring we will consider rescheduling a modified prom event.)
In an email to its students, Lenoir Community College has made the following changes:
