Points of Pride

  • Central Academy of Technology and Arts teachers Larry Robinson, Bianca Morgan and Jeff Weis, and several CATA students have been recognized for their play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf” winning the North Carolina Theatre Conference State Play Festival.

  • Dr. Mary Ellis, Deputy Superintendent for Instructional Programs, was named the 2011 North Carolina Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (NCASCD) Distinguished Educator of the Year.

  • UCPS ranked #1 in AYP among the 15 largest school districts in AYP results. Thirty-two out of 52 UCPS schools met AYP this year, 61.5 percent achieving 100 percent of the target goals set by NCLB. Seven UCPS schools only missed meeting their AYP by one goal, while an additional seven schools met at least 80 percent of their goals.

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Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club is safe haven for students

The Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club area director Moses Fox III, at left, plays a game of Air Hockey with students in the club, an after-school program for Union County Public Schools students that is housed at Monroe Middle. The club’s doors opened officially on Jan. 17, 2011, with 24 students signed up to attend. On the third day, however, that number had already doubled. Club organizers held a grand opening Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012.

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Young poets from Western Union Elementary are to be published

These third graders in Jennifer Bittner’s class at Western Union Elementary will have their poems published in the next issue of “Anthology of Poetry by Young Americans." Pictured from left, (first row) Peyton McDonald, Western Union teacher Jennifer Bittner, Caralyn Elrod; (back row) Sukarno Brown, Brett Connell and Nikolas Kotesky.

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