Baldwin School District receives national recognition for music education
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) The Baldwin County School District is one of eight Georgia districts being recognized nationally for its music education program.
The National Association of Music Merchants designated the district as a best community for music education. It’s one of 686 districts in 40 states to receive the designation.
The district, which offers general music to around 5,000 students, says it wants to keep music as a curriculum option.
“The program emphasizes passion,” James McMillan, Director of Bands at Baldwin High School, said.
District leaders say research shows music education improves the brain, speech and the reading process.
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Baldwin School District announces plan to vaccinate its teachers
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Since Governor Brian Kemp expanded the COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to include educators, the Baldwin County School District has been working with several health care systems to develop a plan to vaccinate employees.
The district will start its plan by holding a mass drive-thru event on Friday, March 12.
“We are extremely pleased with the Governor’s decision to place teachers and school staff in a higher priority group to receive the COVID-19 vaccine,” a post on the district’s website said.
Court documents reveal new details against band director accused of child porn charges
FAIRHOPE, Alabama (WALA) New court documents revealed disturbing allegations against the Fairhope High School band director arrested on child pornography charges.
The documents claimed Anthony Wayne Fillingim downloaded nude pictures and videos of underage boys performing sex acts on themselves.
The documents said all of the boys were under 17 and already in the Center of Missing and Exploited Children’s database and they were from a different state. The documents also said law enforcement found the pictures in a Dropbox account tied to Fillingim’s email.
Baldwin County deputies arrested the 43 year old Wednesday after they searched his Daphne home based on information they had, that he might have downloaded sexually explicit images.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp says there is no definitive timeline for when Phase 1b will start Author: Molly Jett Updated: 7:16 PM EST January 29, 2021
BALDWIN COUNTY, Ga. Georgia educators are next on the list of people eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine.
The State of Georgia is currently in Phase 1a+, including first responders, healthcare workers, and people 65 and older. Next, we will go into Phase 1b, which is essential workers, including our educators.
Superintendent of the Baldwin County School District Noris Price is on the state vaccine distribution working group herself.
Price said her goal is to develop a plan for how to best vaccinate all of our educators in the state of Georgia as part of phase 1b.