Welcome to the 9th Grade. Your child has entered this brave new world and you are excited and terrified. You want the best for your child; an easy transition, friends, success in class.
But your child's chance of success is slim – 80% of children entering the 9th grade don’t have the knowledge or skills they need to graduate.
On October 1 we will select the winner so it's not too late for your to check them out, vote or submit your own written or video story. Follow the link and join in the fun! What does the winner get? Their very own iPad, that's what.
Register today for Ontrack WNC’s October 6th Women and Money Conference
Don't forget about this opportunity to meet local candidates...
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Monday, Sept 24 |
This opportunity comes from Children First/Communities In Schools and Together NC.
What's up with NC's budget cuts? Find out at NC's Worth It forum, Oct 2, 6:30 PM
If you want to better understand the impact of state budget cuts to our community and what can be done to restore investments in education, health, safety, and envirnoment then join Children First/CIS and Together NC at the NC's Worth It forum on October 2nd.
There are national education grants for school systems to improve student success. There are national neighborhood grants for districts to improve families’ economic success. There are national county and multi-county grants to improve people’s health conditions. At times these efforts stumble over each other as they try to put together collaborations of the same handful of local institutions – but each effort has the potential to make a big difference and each requires agreement by those leading entities. If we don’t change the way we work, we will get the same results we have always g
A BIG Welcome to our newest crew of Loaned Executives! Left to right: Mark Collins, Don Mandelkorn, Charlotte Sommers, Barbara Daugherty, Paula Plott, Susan Andrew, Amanda Jay, Hope Snipes, Emily Palumbo and Heath Nettles.
This week is our version of boot camp - the week-long immersion into all things LIVE UNITED. If you see them, and they are bleary eyed, you know why.
You helped us collect more than 650 fully stocked Elementary/Middle School backpacks and Head Start/Kindergarten Craft Bags!
