Florence City Schools art students won many awards at
the annual Artistic Renderings of Youth exhibition at
the Kennedy Douglas Center. Congratulations to the
students and to their teachers, Jerry Foster, Kathryn
Townsend, and Pat Reaves!
Five Florence city
schools students won medals in this year’s Family,
Career and Community Leaders of America National
Leadership competition. The July competition
in Orlando resulted in Alabama’s students winning 32
gold, 21 silver and 14 bronze medals among 100
participants. Among those medal winners were
Florence students LaTosha Armstead and Rachel
Carter, who won gold. Anna Moore, Jordan Starks and
Jacob Mitchell won bronze. The students competed for
national awards in their areas of expertise and
participated in advanced leadership workshops. To be
eligible to compete, they had to first win at the
state level. About 2,500 students from across the
country advanced to the national competition.
The Florence school
district is taking aim at absenteeism through a short
but straightforward video campaign scheduled for release
next week.
Superintendent Janet Womack called the
video “a campaign to get the community behind our
efforts to help students.” The video will be shown
throughout the community beginning with the district’s
student orientation sessions Wednesday.
Renovations will begin soon on the sixth floor of the Florence-Lauderdale government building downtown, the future home of the Florence school district’s administrative offices. The Florence school board Wednesday approved renovations estimated to cost between 500,000-$600,000.
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FLORENCE, Ala. (WAAY)-
Starting this year, the Florence Falcons are
welcoming two horses and ten students to the state's
first high school equestrian team. "I think
it's one of the greatest things to happen for the
horse industry and the area, because there are so
many people here that have horses and don't get the
opportunity to do anything," said Coach Donny
Young. "This is a good opportunity for students to
learn something that they can't find anywhere else."
Young said that five students will compete in
English style riding and the other half in
Western....Read
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Construction began this
morning on a $1.1 million athletic complex in Florence
schools, which will house weight training facilities and
a practice field on the high school campus. The
expansion will allow student-athletes in 14 sports to
utilize the indoor facility, which will provide a 35- or
40-yard practice field and weight training machines....Read
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FLORENCE -- The
Florence Board of Education tonight approved hiring Joey
Dawson as principal of Weeden Elementary School,
effective immediately. Dawson has been a Florence
city schools employee for five years and has been
assistant principal at Weeden for three years....Read
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On most days, JaKari
Lewis heads to a local station to visit members of the
Florence Fire Department. But Monday, the
firefighters surprised the 11-year-old Harlan Elementary
School student with a visit. About a dozen
firefighters walked into the school gym, where Lewis was
sitting among classmates at the school’s annual awards
day ceremony. The firefighters were there for a
special presentation: a Florence fire helmet for Lewis,
who had alerted firefighters of smoke coming from
Granny’s Country Kitchen on Oct. 17 when he was visiting
Station No. 3, near the restaurant....Read
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All public schools in Florence are fully accredited by
SACS CASI (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Council on Accreditation and School Improvement), one of
the first 150 school systems in America to be
comprehensively accredited as a district.
Equal Education/Employment
Opportunity
Statement
It is
the official policy of the
FlorenceCity
School District
that no person shall on the grounds of race, color,
disability, sex, religion, creed, national origin or
age, be excluded from participation in, be denied the
benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any
program, activity or employment.
