LIGONIER â West Noble School Corporation will apply for a Common School Loan to upgrade its technology. School board members agreed to the application at Mondayâs meeting.
Technology director Mike Burke said that three phases of infrastructure improvements will happen if the loan application is approved. An aging main server in the data center will be replaced at an estimated cost of $59,000; 70 desktop computers at West Noble Middle School will be replaced at an estimated cost of $913 each; and new Chromebooks with licensing fees will be purchased for all 180 teachers at an estimated Cost of $80,000.
Schools may apply for a Common School Loan twice a year, and may receive funds equal to $100 per student. There is no guarantee that the districtâs application would be approved. Superintendent Galen Mast said West Noble has received a Common School Loan twice.
SDI pledges $1.5 million to Trine engineering expansion
ANGOLA â The Steel Dynamics Foundation Inc. has pledged $1.5 million toward Trine University s engineering facility expansion, the university announced Monday.
In honor of Steel Dynamics support, the 40,000-square-foot expansion will be named the Steel Dynamics Inc. Center for Engineering and Computing.
A longtime supporter of Trine University, the Steel Dynamics Foundation Inc. has provided major gifts toward the Steel Dynamics Inc./Keith E. Busse Athletic and Recreation Center and the Thunder Ice Arena.
Enrollment in the Allen School of Engineering and Computing has risen 72% over the past decade to nearly 1,000 students, with engineering students accounting for more than 40% of Trine s main campus student population.
The New Hanover County school system has faced an uphill battle when it comes to sexual offense cases between students and school staff members.
In 2019, Michael Earl Kelly pleaded guilty to 59 charges of child sexual abuse after he d abused nearly 20 victims during his years as a science teacher at Isaac Bear Early College High School.
Last year, the New Hanover County Board of Education fired Roland-Grise Middle School band director Peter Michael Frank after he was charged with 12 felony sex crimes. He was later indicted on an additional 17 sex crime charges that included sex offenses with a child aged 13-15 between 1998 and 2000.
Bobbi Bostian wrote in a public Facebook post on Monday that she met David Bostian in 1985. He was the most kind, caring, thoughtful, loving man, the post said. I KNOW this man.
Bobbi Bostian asked people to not believe the lies spewed about her husband and said she prays the allegations against him aren t believed over what those of us who know and love him know to be true.
David Bostian was found dead after he shot himself Friday morning at his home at 3304 Tipton Court in Wilmington. This followed public allegations made against him about having an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old student in 1992.
Benjamin Schachtman Update Monday, April 5 at 12:30 p.m. The Wilmington Police Department has ruled the death of David Bostian, Jr. a suicide by gun.
The Wilmington Police Department have confirmed that David Bostian, Jr. was found dead at his residence this morning by officers responding to a 911 call.
The cause of death is still under investigation and is not being called a homicide investigation at this time but no further details have yet been released; according to WPD, more information will be provided once a thorough investigation is completed.
Earlier this morning, Bostian was arrested by the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office. He is charged with two counts of sexual offense by a government employee; according to the Sheriff’s Office, a female victim reported to law enforcement that the offenses allegedly took place in 1992, when she was a 16-year-old student at New Hanover High School.