Browse past news stories for Liberty Elementary School in Liberty, SC.

• Dulles South Elementary School Boundaries Spark Debate (Leesburg Today)
  posted on November 30, 2009 at 01:42:34 pm
  More than 120 Dulles South area residents came to the Loudoun County Public Schools administration building Tuesday night to voice their opinion the recommended attendance zone boundary changes that will take place when a new elementary school on Gum Springs Road opens next year.
• DONATIONS (The Herald News)
  posted on November 27, 2009 at 10:28:20 am
  Goodies for troops Moms Receiving Encouragement collected more than $400 and enough goodies to fill 35 boxes to send to troops overseas. On Nov. 18, volunteers with Moms Receiving Encouragement met at the home of Wendy Myers of Plainfield, the mom of a U.S. Marine. The group was started October 2008. "We called our meetings 'Pity Parties' -- just a group of moms with a family member in the ...
• Liberty students collect more than 1,700 food items (Gazette.net)
  posted on November 26, 2009 at 10:50:09 am
  Liberty Elementary School students diligently collected food and toiletries for their local food bank in November, and by Friday afternoon they had gathered 1,952 items.
• Head Start invites parents to learn :Workshops cover range of skills. (South Bend Tribune)
  posted on November 20, 2009 at 12:06:03 pm
  ELKHART -- Rose Cox shows a group of parents how, when they want to improve their preschool-aged kids' literacy, they can reach for a potato chip bag, a cereal box or even a flier from their favorite restaurant.
• Classroom's furry friend gets around (The Courier News)
  posted on November 20, 2009 at 06:39:48 am
  Flyer, the classroom mascot of Miss Brianne Ebervein's fifth-graders at Liberty Elementary School in Carpentersville, has traveled to the Caribbean and to see the Cubs. Last week, he shadowed Community Unit School District 300 Superintendent Kenneth Arndt for a day.
• Turmoil eases over shake-up of principals (The Arizona Republic)
  posted on November 19, 2009 at 06:43:52 am
  A resignation at one Liberty Elementary School District campus had parents at another in an uproar, but all sides now are attempting to embrace the changes.
• Estrella Mountain parents protest their principal's move (The Arizona Republic)
  posted on November 18, 2009 at 11:40:42 pm
  Turmoil started when Westar Elementary principal abruptly resigned Nov. 9, Dave Bogart reassigned.
• Parade, activities set for Thursday (The Champaign News-Gazette)
  posted on November 17, 2009 at 03:38:05 pm
  DANVILLE – The Downtown Danville and Downtown Danville Rotary Club Night of Lights Parade steps off at 6:30 p.m. Thursday from Vermilion and Williams streets, but before that a number of activities are planned in the downtown area. From 3 to 6 p.m., First Presbyterian Church at the corner of North and Franklin streets will hold a chili supper. Cost is $4 for adults in advance or $4.50 at the ...
• Some Danville students get extra hand with reading (The Champaign News-Gazette)
  posted on November 17, 2009 at 03:34:36 pm
  DANVILLE – Some Danville elementary schools are using a new resource to improve student achievement, particularly in reading. It's a special group of teachers who have stepped into a new role. Their job is to evaluate student learning using a variety of measures.
• Teaching method gives students ownership of learning (The Marion Star)
  posted on November 15, 2009 at 12:16:43 pm
  CALEDONIA - A literacy book written by two sisters is changing the way teaching is being done at a River Valley School District elementary school.
• Three schools locked down in White Settlement (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
  posted on November 14, 2009 at 05:38:00 am
  Three White Settlement schools were placed on "perimeter lockdown" for a few hours Friday while police, firefighters and federal agents removed what was described as a military "anti-personnel device" at a rented house that had been recently vacated.
• 'Antipersonnel' explosive removed from White Settlement home (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
  posted on November 13, 2009 at 07:09:58 pm
  Police, firefighters and federal agents are investigating what has been described as "some sort of military ordnance" at a rent house that was recently vacated.
• Kanawha, Putnam schools recognized as exemplary (Charleston Daily Mail)
  posted on November 10, 2009 at 01:18:06 pm
  Sixty-five public schools in West Virginia, including several in Kanawha, Putnam and Jackson counties, were honored as exemplary schools by the state Board of Education at a dinner Monday night at Embassy Suites. To be eligible, the schools needed to ...
• 65 Exemplary schools honored in Charleston (The Register-Herald)
  posted on November 10, 2009 at 03:38:05 am
  Sixty-five of West Virginia’s public schools and career and technical centers were honored for achieving 2009-2010 Exemplary Accreditation status at a banquet Monday night in Charleston.
• Schools in Kanawha, Putnam among 65 recognized for exemplary status (The Charleston Gazette)
  posted on November 10, 2009 at 12:31:50 am
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Sixty-five public schools in West Virginia, including several in Kanawha, Putnam and Jackson counties, were honored as exemplary schools by the state Board of Education at a dinner Monday night at Embassy Suites. To be el...
• Liberty Elementary School plans reading night (The Danville Commercial-News)
  posted on November 9, 2009 at 07:09:52 pm
  Liberty Elementary School will have a family reading night from 6-7 p.m. Thursday at the school. The school will feature the continents of North America, South America, Australia, Africa, Europe and Asia. Each grade level of teachers has been assigned a continent to present.
• classroom notes (The Herald News)
  posted on November 9, 2009 at 11:26:49 am
  New greenhouse PLAINFIELD -- Ridge Elementary School students now have an essential tool to harvest seeds, study scientific principals and even compost lunch leftovers: a greenhouse.Construction on a new greenhouse is finished after several years of fundraising by Ridge students, staff and the school PTO, coupled with grants from the Plainfield Foundation for Excellence. The greenhouse stands ...
• Unity vaccine clinics (Muscatine Journal)
  posted on November 6, 2009 at 09:51:56 am
  MUSCATINE, Iowa — Mary Odell, director of public health at Muscatine’s Unity Hospital, said several H1N1 clinics will take place in the next two weeks.
• Veterans will be saluted with school programs, free meals: A Place in the Sun (Sun Sentinel)
  posted on November 5, 2009 at 05:31:29 pm
  Wednesday is Veteran’s Day and many area communities are planning observances to recognize the sacrifices these men and women made in the service of their country. One local observance is taking place at Liberty Elementary School in North Ridgeville....
• Overrides lose in most SW Valley districts, but bonds OK'd (The Arizona Republic)
  posted on November 4, 2009 at 08:43:39 pm
  Southwest Valley voters decided to help fund school construction, but rejected budget increases.
• Playground committee continues fundraising effort (West Liberty Index)
  posted on November 4, 2009 at 05:03:52 pm
  Outdated and inadequate. According to Claire LeMay, those are the perfect words to describe the playground equipment at West Liberty Elementary School.
• St. Joseph County voters turning out for special election (South Bend Tribune)
  posted on November 4, 2009 at 12:35:07 am
  St. Joseph County voters are deciding today whether to join a regional transportation district, or RTD, along with LaPorte, Porter and Lake counties.
• Liberty third graders take field trip to Clemson University (Anderson Independent-Mail)
  posted on November 3, 2009 at 08:00:42 pm
  LIBERTY — The third-grade classes of Liberty Elementary School went on a field trip to Clemson University to watch a performance of “Jigsaw Jones: The Mystery of the Class Clown.” After the performance, the students enjoyed an afternoon at Clemson’s Botanical Gardens. They had a great time!
• Students dig addition (Post-Tribune)
  posted on November 3, 2009 at 10:12:13 am
  LIBERTY TOWNSHIP -- Kids think it's cool to be able to watch an excavating machine at work right outside their classroom window. So how much cooler is it for them to put on construction hats and go out and watch their principal at the controls, scooping up the first dirt for the new addition to their school? Liberty Elementary School Principal Christy Jarka sat in the cab Monday as she made ...
• Schools looking for a few good men (The Herald News)
  posted on October 26, 2009 at 09:13:41 am
  School can be a guy thing, too. That's the message that schools in Bolingbrook are trying to send out to get more fathers involved in education at the elementary level. For instance, Salk Elementary School in Bolingbrook recently held a Donut for Dad event to celebrate students' fathers and other male relatives.
• D118 board to hear updates (The Danville Commercial-News)
  posted on October 26, 2009 at 05:25:19 am
  School board members will hear Wednesday an update on the district’s alternative education programs, including new classrooms at the Laura Lee Fellowship House.
• Political notebook : Oh, the statement you could make for Halloween (Arizona Daily Star)
  posted on October 25, 2009 at 07:24:54 am
  Americans were all over the Sarah Palin glasses-and-updo combo last year, but the National Retail Federation this season says politicians have all but dropped off the costume map.
• A new chapter in boys’ reading (Northwest Herald)
  posted on October 25, 2009 at 06:37:06 am
  CARPENTERSVILLE – District 300 Superintendent Ken Arndt would read the books that he was assigned in grade school, but he didn’t like it.
• Looking for a few good men (The Bolingbrook Sun)
  posted on October 23, 2009 at 09:19:05 am
  School can be a guy thing, too.
• What to do with 3600 seconds (This Week Worthington)
  posted on October 21, 2009 at 07:22:01 pm
  3600 seconds. 60 minutes. 1 hour. Regardless of how you break it down, it is the length of time health experts recommend children and adolescents (ages 7-18) be involved in physical activity on a daily basis. The majority of those 3,600 seconds should be either moderate or vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity and the activity can be broken up into chunks over the course of a day (which ...