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According to DPI, there was a 40 minute delay in EOG testing yesterday morning. Tammy Howard, senior director for accountability and testing, says: “There was a system error that caused NCTest not to function. This was statewide, meaning for all students who were testing this morning. The outage was approximately 40 minutes. Corrective action quickly brought the system back up and approximately 120,000 students resumed testing. Schools have the following options if they did not resume testing today: (1) resume tomorrow or (2) begin a new test administration tomorrow.”
If you have been following our Hurricane Helene coverage, then you know that four schools took on so much damage during Hurricane Helene that their students needed to relocate. Micaville is one of the four. Built in 1936, it is a WPA school that won’t come back into service.
The students and their families — who spent the rest of the school year at two other elementary schools — will gather tonight at Micaville.
A huge thank you to Elizabeth Brazas and the whole team at the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina for your support and for showing up over and over again. Thank you to Jeremy Gibbs who has been working with the teachers at Micaville since Principal Melanie Bennett was onboarded. I have to think that their capacity to lead in good times has impacted their unparalleled leadership to lead through this time. To Melanie, your leadership is an inspiration to so many of us across North Carolina. If there was an honorary principal of the year for the principal that survived, in my book, you would get it. Thank you to Superintendent Kathy Amos and the rest of the Yancey County Schools team for your leadership this year and for letting EdNC be part of your story.
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