Henry Clay, Dunbar seniors receive corporate-sponsored scholarships
Henry Russell of Henry Clay High School and Meghan Waters of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School are among Kentucky’s eight recipients of 2014 National Merit corporate scholarships. Henry, who listed his...
View ArticleHenry Clay’s Kite receives Rotary’s Great Teacher Award
Bill Kite, the band director at Henry Clay High School, has received the 2014 John R. Bryden Great Teacher Award from the Rotary Club of Lexington. The $1,000 award, which is made possible in part by...
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Dunbar’s Turner named Media Adviser of the Year
Wendy Turner of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School has received the 2014 James L. Highland Media Adviser of the Year Award. This statewide honor recognizes a Kentucky high school media teacher who...
View ArticleLafayette, Henry Clay make magazine’s Top 20 in statewide rankings
U.S. News & World Report has come out with its 2014 list of the nation’s best public high schools, and 62 in Kentucky were eligible for a state ranking. Two in Fayette County received silver...
View ArticleLafayette seniors show neighbors some love
More than a dozen seniors spent their Friday afternoon picking up trash in a one- to two-block radius of school to demonstrate “Lafayette Loves Our Neighbors.” The high school students, who paired up...
View ArticleRegistration open for STARTALK Chinese summer program
Fayette County Public Schools will again offer the STARTALK Chinese Language Program for students in grades K-5 to practice the language and learn about the culture during summer break. In the free...
View ArticleFive seniors among 2014 Presidential Scholar semifinalists
Fayette County Public Schools boasts five of Kentucky’s eight semifinalists for this year’s class of U.S. Presidential Scholars, which is one of the nation’s most prestigious honors recognizing high...
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Youth Achiever of the Year award goes to Henry Clay senior
James Leavell-Greene of Henry Clay High School was named the 2014 Youth Achiever of the Year at the YMCA of Central Kentucky’s Black Achievers awards program. Several other Fayette County students...
View ArticleTSA members stack up top awards at state conference
Five TSA clubs from Fayette County Public Schools brought home a total of 22 first-place awards from the Technology Student Association’s 2014 state conference April 21-23 in Louisville. The...
View ArticleStation boasts another winner in Congressional Art Competition
Salvador Hernandez of Bryan Station High School is the winner of the 2014 Congressional Art Competition, An Artistic Discovery, for Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District. His photography entry,...
View ArticleFour earn state-level kudos from ‘Letters About Literature’
Four students from Fayette County Public Schools fared well in the 2014 nationwide Letters About Literature writing contest, which is sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress....
View ArticleDunbar sculptor among state’s Eco-Art honorees
Sarah Jeoung of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School is among several statewide winners in the 2014 Eco-Art Contest sponsored by the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection (DEP). She received an...
View ArticleStudents celebrate ‘green’ initiatives at Earth Day awards program
The third annual Earth Day Celebration organized by the Bluegrass Youth Sustainability Council featured more than 60 schools getting kudos for their “green” efforts in 2013-2014 and an unusual keynote...
View ArticleFBLA members from Dunbar fare well in statewide contests
FBLA students from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School picked up a trio of first-place awards in the 2014 state competition: Linda Zhang and Jasmine Liu in Hospitality Management; Daniel Ma in Personal...
View ArticleTwo FCPS artists earn highest prizes in all-state showdown
Several teenage artists from Fayette County Public Schools secured highest honors in the Kentucky Art Education Association’s 2014 all-state competition. Bryan Station High School’s Sara...
View ArticleFourteen art entries selected for next district calendar
The winners of the annual calendar art contest in Fayette County Public Schools were unveiled at an April 29 reception at The Lyric Theatre and Cultural Arts Center. Art teachers this spring sent in...
View ArticleHenry Clay boys, Station girls win county track-and-field titles
The Henry Clay boys and the Bryan Station girls won the 2014 FCPS track-and-field championships April 30 at host Tates Creek High School. In the boys’ team results, Bryan Station was runner-up,...
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Hayes’ band director to receive Beacon Award
Lois Wiggins, band director at Edythe J. Hayes Middle School since 2004, is one of the inaugural recipients of the Beacon Award given by the International Women’s Brass Conference. She and four others...
View ArticleState PTA Reflections winners in line for accolades in Frankfort
Following along with this year’s theme, artistic students competing in the PTA Reflections program continued to “Believe, Dream, Inspire” and will now be recognized at the statewide awards ceremony...
View ArticleWinburn stacks up another pile of history awards
Students from Winburn Middle School once again piled up awards at the annual Kentucky Junior Historical Society’s state conference and the National History Day in Kentucky state competition, held...
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