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School board approves instructional calendars for 2020-21
For students on the traditional calendar, the school year will begin on Aug. 24, 2020, in accordance with state law, and end on May 28, 2021. Instructional breaks are largely unchanged – three days around Thanksgiving in November, about two weeks around Christmas and New Year’s, a week after Easter and teacher workdays in months where there are no holidays.
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Education Foundation mini-grants a prize for teachers
Community support for public school teachers pushed the amount of money raised last year and awarded last week as 2019 Lenoir County Education Foundation mini-grants to records heights -- $20,836 conferred in 54 grants to teachers at 16 LCPS schools.
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Students put spirit of giving into practice
student-led groups like FFA, DECA, National Honor Society and student governments groups practiced the altruism that’s a hallmark of the holiday season. Many of these acts of kindness were performed anonymously, a few by individual students who saw a need and acted on it, and others with a host of helpers and a high degree of organization.
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Dropout rate falls to lowest level in five years
The actual number of students who left school ahead of graduation or were unaccounted for according to state guidelines declined to 61 last school year from 80 the previous year. Two of LCPS’s traditional high schools – Kinston and North Lenoir – and Lenoir County Learning Academy, the district’s alternative school, cut their dropout numbers significantly.
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