All in Education
NC GreenPower announced earlier this year a list of awardees from 15 North Carolina schools that were awarded a solar educational package valued at $42,000. The schools will also receive donated SunPower solar modules, a STEM curriculum, and teacher training.
One of the most important lessons middle and high school students will likely learn during LCPS’s summer school has nothing to do with reading or writing. It deals with reality.
A new report from the Fordham Institute argues that North Carolina’s controversial social studies standards flunk the test on history and civics, ranking worst in the Southeast.
Snow Hill Primary is keeping the weekly Terrific Kid Awards going during the summer! Each teacher chooses a student who has been responsible, shows great character, or has reached a personal goal.
Lenoir Community College (LCC) graduate Micaiah Jackson of Kinston is well on his way of making his career goals a reality. When he graduated from South Lenoir High School in 2016, he knew he was going to LCC for his first two years and then transfer to a four-year university to study to be a physical therapist.
Despite having spent nearly half their junior year and all their senior year going to school under the cloud of a global pandemic, the Class of 2021 left its mark in the LCPS record books – a most-ever total of 55 students who exited high school with both a diploma and a two-year college degree, plus the second-best total for scholarship offers at $11.3 million.
Snow Hill Primary is keeping the weekly Terrific Kid Awards going during the summer! Each teacher chooses a student who has been responsible, shows great character, or has reached a personal goal. At the end of the week, these students are presented with an award from the counselor, Mrs. McLawhorn, or an administrator and are congratulated for their hard work. Below are Snow Hill Primary's last Terrific Kids!
Rochelle Middle School proudly recognizes the following students who have demonstrated academic excellence the last nine weeks of the 2020-2021 school year.
A desire to return to North Carolina has brought Todd Clark, Lenoir Community College’s first ever women’s soccer head coach, home. LCC is adding women’s soccer to its athletic line up for the 2021-2022 with plans to field a team coached by Clark in the fall of 2022.
Law school graduate Robert Simmons of Kinston is still hitting the books after seven years of college. A recent Spring 2021 graduate of the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law in Raleigh, Simmons is preparing to take the bar exam in July and then go to work.
Lenoir Community College 2021 graduate Staci Tucker’s educational road was not always straight, but she met her challenges head on and graduated with a degree in Polysomnography.
When students in the Leadership class at Rochelle Middle School were searching for a project that would make a difference in the community, they settled on an idea that would not only have impact but would also have a catchy name: RMS Got Your Back.
It’s not like Austin Rivenbark didn’t have a plan. A rising senior at South Lenoir High School, he’s on track to earn a college degree in industrial maintenance by the time he’s awarded his diploma. It’s just that now – after being accepted into the Youth Apprenticeship program at Crown Equipment’s Kinston plant – Austin’s plan looks a lot like a potential career.
Jackson Colby Pass of Haw River will tell you he came to Lenoir Community College in 2019 to play baseball, but he did must more than that. He excelled in the classroom as well as the baseball diamond putting the emphasis on student.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is launching an expanded COVID-19 screening testing program to support public, charter and private K-12 schools in protecting students and staff from the spread of COVID-19. The program will launch in fall 2021 and schools can register to participate beginning in early July.
Sharon King, LCC Liaison for Greene Early College, was chosen by the GEC staff to receive the Pride in Greene Award. The recognition was made at the Greene County School’s Annual End of Year celebration on June 8. Each school in the system is offered the opportunity to recognize one of its staff members that exhibits pride in the students’ education and school mission.
Hannah Lassiter of Kinston understands what it means to be a leader. She came to Lenoir Community College in 2014 as part of the Lenoir County Early College High School program and began taking college classes in the spring of 2016. She continued her studies at LCC and was accepted in the Associate Degree Nursing Program, a rigorous academic journey. She plans to graduate with the Class of 2022.
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