MADISON - A bond proposal set to go before Boone County voters later this month has generated mixed reactions as the county school system attempts to rebuild and renovate several of its schools. Boone County was one of three counties - along with Harrison and Upshur - approved for funding from the state School Building Authority contingent on passage of bond issues by voters in those counties.
Crews will not be finished removing methamphetamine residue from the Boone County Career and Technical Center by the time students are scheduled to return later this month, a school official said Friday. Boone County Superintendent John Hudson said the center's faculty and staff met Friday to discuss a "Plan B" option for where the students could be housed temporarily while Charleston's Meth Lab Cleanup Co. removes the hazardous waste. The students are expected to return to classes Aug. 22.
Boone County is in the midst of its worst whooping cough outbreak in years, health officials said, after a nationwide trend of more cases of the highly contagious disease. But unlike previous scenarios that have been contained mostly at schools in Boone County, the county's current pertussis situation has spread throughout the community.
Students from three Boone County schools are getting an enriched education with the help of the Clay Center. Van Junior/Senior High, Madison Middle and Sherman Junior High now are sites of 21st Century Learning Centers.
MADISON - Boone County Schools Superintendent John Hudson says school officials will live with whatever decision voters make Saturday on a $45 million school bond election. He just hopes that decision is based on accurate information.
In a situation that educators called "unprecedented," the Boone County Career and Technical Center had to be shut down after state health officials discovered evidence of methamphetamine. The center will be closed "until further notice," according to a statement released Monday by Boone County Schools Superintendent John Hudson.
After two years of offering Columbia Public Schools students free flu shots, the Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services no longer will offer the vaccinations. The health department received a federal grant in 2009 to provide every resident with a free H1N1 shot, said Geni Alexander, public information officer for the health department. Boone County received 51,900 doses of the vaccination, she said, and doled out 7,276 to Boone County schoolchildren. Last year, the department used another grant to provide free flu shots to all K-5 students in Boone County and vaccinated about 4,800 students in the schools, Alexander said.
The Clay Center and Boone County Schools will partner in a 21st Century Learning Center, a new after-school program at Van Junior/ Senior High, Madison Middle and Sherman Junior High schools, thanks to a three-year, $200,000-per year grant from the state Department of Education. Clay Center President Judy Wellington told board of directors members at their meeting Wednesday that the program is the only new center funded this year and one of few given to a non-profit as opposed to a school system.
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