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Three days before a Lenoir County resident was tested for the novel coronavirus, North Carolina public schools were ordered to shut down.
And eight days after Lenoir County Public Schools did so with really no choice, the resident received the first lab-confirmed positive test in the county – on March 24, 2020. I don’t think that anyone imagined exactly what was about to happen locally and around the world last year at this time, LCPS superintendent Brent Williams said. In what seemed to be an instant, the uncertainty of the COVID-19 virus turned the world upside down.
Schools around the state will be trying to implement plans to return students to school campuses after Gov. Roy Cooper and state legislators agreed to get students back in schools for face-to-face instructions.
Mount Airy City Schools just might be the model they want to consider following. That’s because the local city school system has been holding in-person classes five days a week for the entire school year.
“Our students have been five days a week since Aug. 17,” said Carrie Venable, executive officer of communications for the city schools. “We are the only school system in the state that has had students five days a week since August.”
North Carolina will list transgender students’ preferred names on their school records
Department of Public Instruction changes PowerSchool electronic record system at urging of LGBTQ advocates, parents, and teachers.
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The North Carolina agency that oversees educational policies in the Tar Heel State has announced that it will allow transgender students in public schools to have their preferred name listed on most of their school records.
Last Friday, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction informed school districts that it has updated its PowerSchool student information system which all districts are required to use to display a “preferred name” that will be used on most records.
Stuart Blount named interim principal at West Craven High School
By Sun Journal staff
Craven County Schools has announced that Stuart Blount will serve as interim principal at West Craven High School.
Blount began his teaching and coaching career in Craven County Schools after graduating from East Carolina University with a Bachelor of Science and Master’s degree in Health and Physical Education. He taught at J.T. Barber 9th grade school before serving as a teacher, coach, and assistant principal at New Bern High School. He served as the principal of A.H. Bangert Elementary School and then Brinson Memorial Elementary School where he was named Principal of the Year in 2006. In 2007, Blount returned to New Bern High School to lead the Bears as their principal.