GCS News Briefs

July 17, 2009

Bus Transportation Deadline is July 20

The deadline for students to sign up to ride the bus during the 2009-10 school year is fast approaching. Parents or guardians of GCS students must submit transportation request forms by July 20 to ensure a bus assignment for their students on the first day of school.

Students do not need to submit a request form if they rode the bus last year, have the same address and are attending the same school. Students are required to submit the form by the deadline if they did not ride the bus last year or if they rode the bus but there has been a change in their morning or afternoon transportation address.

The transportation request form is available on the Transportation Web page. Completed forms should be returned to the GCS Transportation Department, 131 Franklin Blvd., Greensboro, NC, 27401. The forms can be faxed to 370-8932.

The transportation deadline for students who will be attending magnet schools or high school options was June 24. More than half of the district’s students – or about 40,000 elementary, middle and high school students – are transported on school buses daily. For more information, please contact the GCS Transportation Department at 370-8920.

Northwest High Student Testifies on Bullying and School Violence

Cassady Tetsworth, a rising senior at Northwest High and a Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) Youth Advisory Board member, testified in Washington, D.C. on a panel made up of administrators, advocates and students who encouraged Congress to examine strategies for limiting violence, bullying and harassment in the nation's schools.

As a member of SAVE, Tetsworth was selected to testify on bullying and school violence issues for the United States House Committee on Education and Labor’s Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities and Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education.

Tetsworth provided members of the subcommittees with background on SAVE, information on the organization’s proactive approach to preventing school violence and recommendations for increasing school safety around the country. After completing her testimony, Tetsworth fielded follow-up questions from members of the subcommittees.

SAVE is a student-run, student-initiated public nonprofit violence prevention organization with more than 1,800 chapters in 47 states and more than 200,000 members in elementary, middle, high schools, colleges and communities nationwide. For more information, please contact Ralph Kitley, Northwest principal, at 605-3300.

NC Principal Fellows

Congratulations to the following GCS employees selected to participate in the NC Principal Fellows program:

Beryl Midgett - Brown Summit Middle Center of Advanced Academics
Tavy Fields - Welborn Academy of Science and Technology
Louis Galliotti - Northern Middle
Daniel McInnis - Southern High
Sophia Roberts - Jones Elementary Spanish Immersion Magnet
Harold Ashworth - Southeast High

The NC Principal Fellows Program helps the best and most qualified students to complete a two-year full-time Master of School Administration (MSA) program.  As a competitive, merit-based scholarship loan program that is funded by the North Carolina General Assembly, the program assists selected individuals to prepare for a career in school administration (i.e., assistant principal or principal). From it's beginning in 1994, to date, over 1000 Principal Fellows have participated in the program.

The results are impressive.  Schools that have NC Principal Fellows serving as principal have significantly outperformed the state average on both the North Carolina ABC's assessment and on the Federal No Child Left Behind program.

Click here for more information on the NC Principal Fellows program

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This three-part Newsbreak features Kellie Pickler’s concert at Oak Ridge Elementary, the Window Into Creativity at Greensboro’s historic Kress Building, and Pilot Elementary’s grant for playground improvements. Click here to watch.

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GCSTV 2 & ABC-45

GCS continues its partnership with ABC-45 television to share current news and feature stories about our district. These Newsbreak segments air on ABC-45 (Cable Channel 7) during Good Morning America each Wednesday and Friday at 7:25 a.m. and 8:25 a.m.

For more information, please contact Leonard Simpson, GCSTV 2 production manager, at 370-8167.