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With several schools at or near capacity, the results of a $30,000 land use study will aid Henderson County Public Schools in strategic planning for facility use over the next 10 years.
The study, by the North Carolina State University Institute for Transportation Research and Education s Operations Research and Education Laboratory, or OREd, provides enrollment and staffing projections.
That information will be used with the results of a facility assessment completed two years ago to make decisions about school system initiatives, facilities use and building renovations as well as the consideration of new construction and reassignment, Superintendent John Bryant told the Times-News.
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Pardee UNC Health Care, in partnership with Blue Ridge Health, will begin vaccinating Henderson County Public Schools employees Wednesday.
School and child care employees qualify for the vaccine under the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Group 3.
HCPS personnel won t be required to get a vaccine. Those who do want it will be vaccinated quickly, according to a statement from Pardee UNC Health Care spokeswoman Erica Allison.
Groups 1 and 2 (health care workers, long-term care staff and residents and adults 65 years and older) will continue to receive vaccines as well. The Henderson County Health Department will remain focused on vaccinating individuals who are 65 and older.
Henderson County 4th-, 5th-graders return to in-person learning Feb. 18
Henderson County Public Schools fourth- and fifth-graders will return to school in-person full-time, known as Plan A, on Feb. 18.
Pre-K through third-grade students returned full-time Feb. 1 and will continue attending school on Plan A while grades 6-12 continue to attend remotely part-time, known as Plan B.
The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services and Gov. Roy Cooper s Office will only permit Plan B for grades 6-12, HCPS Superintendent John Bryant said.
The Henderson County School Board followed the recommendation Bryant gave during a meeting Monday, except for the return date for fourth- and fifth-graders. Bryant recommended Feb. 22 and Chairman Blair Craven made a motion for students to return on Feb. 18.
Hendersonville Times-News
Hendersonville City Council is confident, with only a couple of concerns and suggestions voiced, in moving forward with trading a portion of Berkeley Mills Park to Henderson County Public Schools in exchange for Edwards Park.
City Manager John Connet presented a conceptual plan to council at a meeting Wednesday that shows HCPS plans for its future portion of Berkeley Park, which would be nearly 26 acres, if the trade is approved.
Council and the School Board have to approve the trade.
HCPS wants to renovate the baseball field already in Berkeley Park and add a softball field as well as six tennis courts as an extension of the Hendersonville High campus.