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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Chicago police on Saturday announced murder charges against a man allegedly involved in the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old girl at a West Side McDonald’s drive-thru last weekend, days before officers shot him during a wild chase that ended with his arrest in the middle of rush-hour traffic on the Eisenhower Expressway.
Marion Lewis, 18, faces counts of first-degree murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault and a litany of other felony charges following the April 18 death of the little girl, Jaslyn Adams.
Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said Lewis was “involved” in the shooting but wouldn’t say if the young man pulled the trigger. Investigators are still looking for an unspecified number of other suspects in connection with “this horrific crime,” Brown said.