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LPSS and Kiwanis Club partnership encourages children to read more The more they read, the bigger the chance to win a new bike. and last updated 2021-01-14 23:42:57-05 LAFAYETTE, La. — The Kiwanis Club of Lafayette and the Lafayette Parish School System are forming a partnership to hopefully get children to read more books. The goal of the program is to incentivize students in a new way, amid the pandemic. Normally, librarians and school staff would encourage children to read with promise...

Lafayette Kiwanis and LPSS Give Bicycles to Encourage Reading The Lafayette Parish School System has partnered with the Kiwanis Club of Lafayette on a mission to get children to read more books.  This initiative will give incentives to students in a new way. Pre-pandemic the children were encouraged through the Accelerated Reader program at school with librarians and teachers offering prizes and parties as an incentive. Obviously, the pandemic restrictions prevent that from happening now. Luck...

UpdatedTue, Dec 22, 2020 at 3:30 pm CT Reply Pictured is Kansas City Representative Richard Brown at James Elementary last year before the pandemic. (Operation Food Search) Operation Food Search (OFS), a non-profit hunger relief organization, recently launched its Missouri School Breakfast that provides extensive resources and detailed reports regarding breakfast participation trends and how they affect students statewide. The new website, which was created to raise awareness regarding the imp...

Gulfport school celebrates last day of chemotherapy for kindergartner Gulfport school celebrates final chemo for kindergartener By WLOX Staff | December 18, 2020 at 7:20 PM CST - Updated December 18 at 9:25 PM GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - A Gulfport kindergarten student got an early Christmas present Friday, and his family and school put on a big show for an incredible celebration. For more than three years, five-year-old Sumner Holland has been battling leukemia. It was his last day of chemot...

MYRTLE BEACH — As thousands in Horry County and across South Carolina reconsider their format of school instruction before the second semester, medical experts are casting a wide net in questioning the effectiveness of plexiglass used as dividers in classrooms, calling the measure a “placebo” and pointing to the lack of data to determine the true impact. In mid-November, the Horry County Schools Board of Education unanimously voted to use nearly $5 million in state funds to insta...

MYRTLE BEACH — Nearly 200 students were moved into quarantine at St. James Elementary School last week — roughly 25.1 percent of the entire student body — after a roving staffer tested positive for COVID-19, a source close to the situation confirmed to the Post and Courier Myrtle Beach. An additional nine staffers were also moved into quarantine. The Post and Courier also obtained an internal email that indicated that 193 St. James Elementary School students had been contacted du...

As both Horry and Georgetown school districts see a measurable uptick in positive COVID-19 cases, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control announced an additional 140 cases in