The Moore County Board of Education, fresh off a meeting that ended in a shouting match, kicked off an eight-hour work session on Monday with unanimous approval of the district’s
More than $25 million in federal coronavirus relief funding to Moore County Schools will cover wide-ranging expenses over the next three years: from activity buses and teacher assistants to new running tracks at Pinecrest and North Moore high schools.
Administrators told the school board on Tuesday that those needs and many others intersect with the directive to spend that money on preventing the transmission of COVID-19 and recovering from the pandemicâs effects over the last year.
The district has until May 7 to apply to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction with an outline of how it plans to use its coronavirus relief funds. The Moore County Board of Education got its first view of the proposed plan in a special meeting this week.
The love of learning has always been a driving force for Moore County Schoolsâ 2021-2022 Teacher of the Year.
The district announced New Century Middle School special education teacher Leah Bartramâs selection from a pool of 22 school-level honorees on Friday.
Bartram has been at New Century for eight years of her 12-year teaching career. Though sheâd already started her own family by the time she finished college and started that career, Bartram found opportunities to lead children toward new knowledge as a scouting leader and teacher assistant at her childrenâs school.
Since becoming a professional educator though, she has taken the lead in exploring new and better ways to help students with disabilities master basic skills and discover their personal strengths.
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Anna Beth Thomas and Sarah Beth McCarter, resource teachers at Itawamba Agricultural High School, open one of 60 buckets of cleaning supplies dropped off at the school by Home Depot on Thursday morning in Fulton. Home Depot gave several area schools that received grants the buckets packed with cleaning supplies for the teachers to have in their classrooms.
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Franki Walker, a cashier at Home Depot in Saltillo, and LaToya Fields, Pro Sales Supervisor and Team Depot Captain, plan out their next move as they work together volunteering their on their day off to pack cleaning supplies into five gallon buckets for area schools as part of #operation surprise on Wednesday morning.
An administrative request to shift surplus funds from one school bond construction project to another prompted a contentious discussion of the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday.
The five-member board ultimately approved moving the leftover money from Aberdeen Elementary to the new Southern Pines Elementary, but not without some fractured debate.
The item in question, involving a $1.56 million transfer, is normally a routine matter and originally had been slotted for the commissionersâ consent agenda. Consent agenda items are approved together in one action.
But during a Dec. 31 meeting to set the agenda, Commissioner Louis Gregory told commissioners chairman Frank Quis he had concerns about the item and wanted it removed.