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Education

  • SCPS accuses employee of theft

    Shelby County Public Schools has turned over information to the Kentucky State Police and the Commonwealth Attorney’s office to investigate fraud and embezzlement of school district funds.

    Shelby County Public Schools Superintendent James Neihof expressed his belief that investigators have gathered enough information to charge district Payroll Manager Benita Anglin, a 15-year employee with Shelby County Public Schools, with payroll fraud.

    He declined to note the amount taken or the method used to cover up the transactions while the investigation continues.

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  • SCPS graduations

    Saturday, May 31 will mark the end of a 12-year journey for 465 high school seniors.  The years of struggling with grades, teachers, homework, friends, boyfriends and girlfriends are coming to an end as they close this chapter in their lives and begin a new one.

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  • Shelby County School Board: Changes ahead for pilot teacher assessment program

    A pilot assessment program for teachers that launched this school year in Shelby County will take a new direction next year.

    Educators spoke favorably about the upcoming changes in next year’s program when they addressed the Shelby County School Board Thursday about the Certified Evaluation Plan.

    “The certified evaluation plan is quite different for next year, we have a new professional growth and effectiveness system that we’re going to be implementing,” said Cindy French, director of elementary schools.

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  • Shelby seniors earn $1.4 million in scholarships

    By ASHLEY WILKINS

    Friends and family members held flowers, snapped photos and wiped prideful tears from their eyes as one by one, seniors at Shelby County High School took the stage Thursday afternoon to receive awards and scholarships totaling more than $1.4 million.

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  • Collins High School Awards 2014

    AWARDS

     

    Kiwanis Club Best All Around Female

    Elizabeth Langlois  

     

    Rotary Club Best All Around Male

    Ryan Ruff

     

    DAR Citizenship Award

    Shelby Logsdon

     

    Female Athlete of the Year

    Sydney Cloyd

     

    Male Athlete of the Year

    Lawson Page

      

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  • NEIHOF: Helping students find a purpose

    Eighty-seven percent of teens recently reported on a Gallup Youth Survey that their lives have an overall purpose, and a powerful impulse to serve other people and society as a whole pervades many of the comments of those interviewed.

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  • Shelby County School Board: Painted Stone to get efficiency upgrade

    On the back of West Middle’s almost 30 percent energy reduction and improved Energy Star rating, Painted Stone Elementary will receive an energy-saving project upgrade worth more than $92,000.

    The Shelby County Board of Education approved the project, which will seal a gap between the walls and the underside of the school’s roof. K. Norman Berry Associate Architects – which has also designed and overseen the Northside Early Childhood Center and the new Southside Elementary School – made a design plan for the estimated four-week project.

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  • 2 SCHS students selected for Gatton Academy

    Shelby County High School sophomores Nolan Hughes and Emma Saarinen have made history, but at the rate they’re going it may not be the last time.

    Hughes and Saarinen have been selected to join the Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science at Western Kentucky University, and it is the first time that two Shelby County students were selected in the same year.

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  • Shelby County school board: Short agenda for board’s regular meeting

    The Shelby County Board of Education will meet with a very short agenda at 7 p.m. Thursday for its regularly scheduled meeting at the district’s central office, 1155 Main Street in Shelbyville.

    Along with reports and discussion, the board will entertain an interagency agreement with the Department of Juvenile Justice.

    The district has signed the agreements in the past to help fund $90,000 in personnel and operating costs at the Education Center at Cropper.

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  • Shelby County School Board: New calendar is approved, school will be out May 30

    It’s official; the Shelby County Board of Education approved a recommendation to move the last day of school back one week to May 30.

    After an unusually harsh winter caused forced the district to take 13 snow days, the end of the school year had been pushed back to June 6, instead of the originally scheduled May 21.

    But adding only six days back to the original school calendar still gives the district plenty of time to meet the state’s educational requirements.

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