Three Area Students Win School District’s School Bus Safety Poster Contest Award
- September 20, 2011
Three students, one at each level, recently received the East Baton Rouge Parish School System’s School Bus Safety Poster Contest Awards. They are (pictured, left to right): third grader Nathalie Soto of Park Forest Elementary School, seventh grader De’Unta Simmons of Westdale Middle School and 11th grader D’Untay Young of Belaire High School.
The three students’ artwork now will be entered in the state-level School Bus Safety Poster Contest sponsored by the Louisiana Department of Education, Office of Federal Programs Support, School Bus Transportation Program.
Both contests are part of the national poster contest celebrating National School Bus Safety Week, which is October 17-21. It is celebrated annually to promote school bus safety awareness, education and the outstanding safety record of school bus transportation throughout our nation. Student art this year should express the theme “Be Aware – Know the Danger Zone!”
Principal Brister in Washington, D.C., to Accept McKinley Middle School’s Second Blue Ribbon Award
On Tuesday, November 13, 2012, Principal Herman Brister (pictured, left) and the school’s Teacher of the Year, Lynn Williamson (right), were in Washington, D.C., accepting McKinley Middle Academic Magnet School’s National Blue Ribbon Award from U.S. Department of Education’s Director of National Blue Ribbon Schools Program Aba Kumi (center). The event, which recognized some 314 schools from across the United States, was held at the Omni Hotel. Click herefor story.
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