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November - Looking Forward Newsletter

Posted Date: 11/06/25 (11:10 AM)
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November

Important Dates:

Traditional Schools
  • Nov 11, 2025: No school for ALL students; Veterans Day
  • Nov 26-28, 2025: No school for ALL students; Thanksgiving Break

Early College 
  • Nov. 11, 2025: No School for Students 
  • Nov. 26-28, 2025: No School for Students; Thanksgiving Break
 

Exceptional Children's Program

Did you know The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) says Medicaid will pay for some Individual Education Program (IEP) services? The law encourages schools to recover the cost of certain services provided to Medicaid eligible students with parent consent. Financial resources help schools teach children. Get more information from this Schools and Medicaid document for parents. 

 

Academically and Intellectually Gifted

Rebecca Bishop: Coordinator - bishopr@gcs.k12.nc.us

Governor’s School Applications are due before November 10, 2025, to your school site coordinator. Please contact your school site coordinator if you have any questions. 
GECHS
J. Taramella - tartamellaj@gcs.k12.nc.us
JFWHS
M. Stevenson - stevensonm@gcs.k12.nc.us
SGHS
K. Alston - alstonk@gcs.k12.nc.us


 

McKinney-Vento

Welcome McKinney-Vento Youth/Parents/Guardians!

To Our GCPS MKV Students & Families! 
     
You and your family are important to us and may qualify or have qualified for the McKinney-Vento (MKV) program because you are experiencing housing transition challenges related to economic hardship or due to some other hardship. Please continue to read below for more information.  If you are in need of food, clothing, or school supplies, please reach out to your school counselor, school social worker, or the MKV Liaison (see contact information at the bottom of the MKV section) 

We hope that as you work through your housing challenges that you utilize the resources that we may have previously shared with you, or that you reach out to us.  If you do not have transportation and are unable to pick up resources, please let us know.  And, if you have been identified and have not received an email from the MKV Liaison this school year, please check your Infinite Campus (IC) parent portal contact information and confirm or update your email address, phone number, and your child(ren)’s physical and mailing addresses. Let your school know if you have any challenges with updating your IC contact information. 

Please see bulleted MKV information below: 
  • The Liaison sends out emails with various community resource information that you should have received this school year.  If not please let the MKV Liaison know
  • Here is the link to the GCPS MKV webpage which includes a definition of families in transition, parent and student rights, MKV law, digital issues of our monthly newsletter, “Looking Forward”, and much more here, 
  • Please see the mass food drive poster for a Henderson, NC event below:

Poster for a Mass Food Distribution event, featuring fresh produce and text.
  • November 16 - 22 is National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week #hhweek. The GCPS STOP & Drop of Hope donation drive is year-long and donors will be asked to drop off specific items that help our families that experience homelessness. Donors can contact the MKV Liaison at 252-425-9368 for more information. 
Repeated Information is below which was in previous “Looking Forward” newsletters from this school year:  
  • If you have been identified for the MKV program and are interested in your school-age child attending the Boy & Girls Club at no cost, please email the Liaison. Buses pick up students from the following schools: Credle, WOXES, SSES, NGMS, and JFWebb. 
  • All parents and youth who are identified this school year should let the Liaison know if you now have stable, independent housing. Email: thickst1@gcs.k12.nc.us.   
  • NCDPI Resources for Exceptional Children link 
  • The link to the Exceptional Children's Transition Trove Newsletter  is here
MKV Contact Information:
If you and your family are unhoused or if you suspect that a GCPS child or youth is unhoused, please contact the school counselor, school social worker listed below,, or the Liaison for more information about the GCPS McKinney-Vento program:

District School Social Workers are school-assigned MKV Points of Contact: 
  • Katie Perkinson - 919-691-5264: Tar River ES, MT Energy ES, GCMS, Granville Academy, Granville Early College HS
  • Sara Michaelson - 919-892-5266: Credle ES, Butner-Stem ES, Wilton ES, JF Webb HS, Phoenix Academy
  • Christy Currin 252-430-9416: West Oxford ES, Stovall-Shaw ES, NGMS, SGHS

All the best!
Teresa Hicks
Teresa Hicks, McKinney-Vento Liaison
Work Cell Phone 252-425-9368 or 919-693-4613 Ext. 101294 hickst1@gcs.k12.nc.us
 
 

Parent Engagement - Infinite Campus

  • Save the Date:  November 18th - Parent/Family Academy Virtual Session
  • Title 1 Nights wrapped up last month, providing information and engaging educational activities and opportunities for the entire family.  Credle Elementary School, Tar River Elementary, and West Oxford Elementary School had amazing nights!  School principals, their amazing staff members, and parent partnerships matter.  

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