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“The N.C. General Assembly, in legislation approved this past weekend and signed into law by Gov. Roy Cooper on Monday, set opening day of the 2020-2021 school year as August 17, a week earlier than usual,” said LCPS Patrick Holmes. “District administrators will use that guidance to produce a revised calendar for the next school year during May and plan to present that calendar to the Lenoir County Board of Education at its June meeting.”
Southwood Elementary School staff surprise Principal Christel Carlyle with a drive-by parade on Principal's Day
Three Lenoir County moms began a quest to recognize this year’s seniors as school shut down for the remainder of the academic year. Lori Turner Eason, Carla Williams, and Christi Collins are all senior moms. The three ladies have launched an effort to ensure that the class of 2020 in Lenoir and Greene Counties feel some sense of normalcy through gifts and encouragement from complete strangers.
Lenoir County Public Schools is headed to the internet and social media to put a virtual spotlight on Class of 2020 events that are typically touchstones for seniors wrapping up their high school career.
Mary Elizabeth Morris was named as one of 100 High School Students America Needs to Know About.
Lenoir County Cooperative Extension Service and the Lenoir County SPCA received some help from North Lenoir FFA on Saturday. The No Empty Bowl project is a food distribution program designed to lighten the load for local pet owners.
Greene County Middle School student, Owen Dyer, placed first in the Junior Individual Documentary category at the National History Day Northeast Region competition.
Governor Cooper announced today at a press conference that N.C. Public Schools will remain closed through the end of the 2019-20 academic school year.
College Consensus ranked Lenoir Community College number 2 on their list of the 50 Best Online Community Colleges.
Davis Basden, a 2016 graduate of Parrott Academy, has been selected by the East Carolina University College of Business as its 2019-2020 Outstanding Senior in Finance.
LCPS has a called meeting of the Lenoir County Board of Education at 6 p.m. tonight. The board will convene to discuss the FY 2021 planning budget in advance of its presentation to county commissioners in May. Because of restrictions related to coronavirus, the meeting will be held remotely. Link to tonight’s meeting is included here.
Lenoir County Public Schools has secured two grants totaling $4,000 to help sustain a program that provides no-cost meals to youth in the county while schools are closed due to the coronavirus outbreak.
A three-student team from E.B. Frink Middle School has qualified for state-level National History Day competition after the team’s project won honors at the regional event at East Carolina University last week.
Many Arendell Parrott Academy graduates are serving in medical fields and are on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.
BATON ROUGE, LA - The following Lenoir County citizens and East Carolina University students recently were initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines: Laura Lamm of Kinston, Robert Grady Jr. of Kinston and Lauran Smith of La Grange.
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.
LCPS Child Nutrition workers on the front lines of our feeding program are in need of new plastic grocery bags used in meal pickup and delivery.
Thursday, April 9, Parrott Academy’s Student Activity Center was supposed to be filled with glitter and glamour and the sounds of the band Liquid Pleasure as juniors and seniors enjoyed the annual prom. It’s a rite of spring on the Kinston school’s campus, and throughout April and May for almost every high school in eastern North Carolina. But Covid-19 has the Class of 2020 finishing their last high school semester at home, without the traditional activities of a senior spring.
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.
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.
