Katie Bradley, currently Assistant Principal & Athletic Director at East Henderson High (EHHS), has been named the new Principal for Hillandale Elementary. Bradley will be filling the principalship vacated by Kelly Pratt, who is moving to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction to continue her education career as the K-3 Literacy Consultant for the Western Region.
John McDaris, currently Assistant Principal & Athletic Director at West Henderson High (WHHS), will move across the street to Rugby Middle, where he will serve as the school’s new Principal. Rugby’s former principal Scott Moore moved to Central Office in March to begin his role as district Director of Middle Schools, and Jenny Moreno has served as interim principal for the remainder of the current school year.
3 new principals named for Henderson County schools
Special to the Times-News/HCPS
Three new principals have been approved by Henderson County Public Schools for the 2021-22 school year.
Katie Bradley, assistant principal and athletic director at East Henderson High, has been named principal of Hillandale Elementary.
Bradley will fill the principalship vacated by Kelly Pratt, who is moving to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction to continue her education career as the K-3 Literacy Consultant for the Western Region.
John McDaris, assistant principal and athletic director at West Henderson High, will move across the street to Rugby Middle, where he will serve as the school’s new principal.
Thomas Lott
Cabarrus County will soon be getting three zero-emission buses to add to its school fleets in the near future.
Cabarrus County Schools will receive two Daimler Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley Electric Buses starting next school year. Kannapolis City Schools will receive one as well.
Daimler Global, the largest commercial vehicle manufacturer in the world, had 60 buses already operating within the country and carrying students to and from school every day.
âItâs an incredibly efficient vehicle,â said Steven Johnson, Southeast District sales and service manager for Thomas Bus, on Tuesday. âWeâve already got 60 buses out on the road in circulation all the way to Tok, Alaska. Weâve got one up there doing cold weather testing, but with the school district running routes on it every day. The mayor rides on it from time to time just because heâs so excited about the new technology.â
Rep. Hugh Blackwell
House Republicans fired another volley in the state’s simmering culture war Wednesday with the approval of a bill that requires school districts and charter schools with more than 400 students to post educational materials used by teachers “prominently” on school websites.
Under House Bill 755, which is also known as the Academic Transparency bill, the burden of listing textbooks and other reading materials as well videos, digital materials and other applications used in classrooms would fall to teachers. It also requires teachers to post lesson plans from the previous year.
Teachers would post educational materials at the end of the school year so parents can review them before the next academic year starts. The information posted would be a list of instructional materials with identifying information, but not include copies of the material.
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.