for all rising First through Fourth grade Bladen County Students was held this year at Bladen Lakes Primary School.
We have a State Budget! The North Carolina General Assembly on June 30 finalized and approved the budget for the state. To read the budget in its entirety click here.....
North Carolina State Board of Education Adopts
Common Core Standards
These standards define the knowledge and skills students should have throughout their K-12 education so that they will graduate high school fully prepared for college and careers.
The Governors statement on the adoption of the standards can be read here.
The NC Department of Public Instruction's statement on the adoption of the standards can be read here.
Bladen County Teacher Sadie Perry receives
The Order of the Longleaf Pine
Highest court rejects NCLB repeal
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to reinstate a challenge to the No Child Left Behind law, rejecting an appeal that claimed it imposes an impermissible financial burden on local school districts, Bloomberg News reports. The case, School District of the City of Pontiac v. Duncan, was pressed by nine districts in Michigan, Texas, and Vermont, and aimed to enforce a provision in the 2001 measure stipulating that states and school districts can't be forced to spend their own money implementing the law's testing requirements and other rules. The districts argued that Congress under funded the law by more than $30 billion from 2002 to 2006. The Obama administration defended the law, enacted under President George W. Bush, and U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan argued that other provisions make it clear that states and school districts must meet the law's requirements as a condition of receiving federal funds. Under the measure, states must decide on an annual basis whether to accept allocated money, which every state has opted to do since the law's enactment.
Atomic Learning is now available to Bladen County School Employees
Atomic Learning is an online technology training and professional development tool for educators. Bladen County Schools is offering it to you as a way to improve your technology skills and earn your required CEU's. Click here for more information.....
Effective July 1, 2009, students who entered the ninth grade for the first time prior to 2006-07 and are not currently enrolled in a public school but have met all state and local graduation requirements except for achieving proficiency on the North Carolina Reading and/or Mathematics Competency Test(s) and/or the North Carolina Skills Test(s) and/or their alternate assessments(s) are no longer required to meet the competency or computer skill standards. These students may petition their former school for a diploma. In order to receive a high school diploma, these students' school records and/or documentation must show that all state and local board requirements have been met. If these students' school records and/or documentation show that all state and local board requirements have been met, these students may be granted diplomas.
If you fall in this category and wish to receive your high school diploma, please contact Roland T. McKoy, III, Assistant Superintendent of Bladen County Schools, at 910-862-4136.
The Bladen County Board of Education does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, national origin, sex, age, or handicapping condition in its policies.
If you have a question concerning discrimination or believe you are a victim of discrimination you may contact the Title IX or Section 504 Coordinator, Roland T. McKoy, III, by calling Bladen County Schools at (910) 862-4136 between 8:30 am and 5:00 pm Monday through Friday.
El Borde de Educacion del Condado Bladen no discrimina en lo basicos de raza, credo, origen nacional, sexo, cdad a condiciion minusvalida en sus polizas.
Si tiene preguntas de asustos de discriminacion o cree que sea victim de discriminacion puede contactar a Titilo IX o Seccion 504 Coordinador, Roland T. McKoy, III, se llama a las Escuelas del Condado de Bladen (910) 862-4136 entre las horas de las 8:30 de la manana hast alas 5:00 de la tarde lde los Lunes hasta el Viernes.
