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The Halifax County School Board holds its regular monthly meeting
tonight at 7 at the Mary Bethune Complex in Halifax.
After a public hearing on making a personal finance class a graduation
requirement (see related story), the board will appoint a school
security committee. The move comes in the wake of international concern
about school safety, plus the phony bomb threats and text-message
pranks that disrupted the local high school back in the fall.
In addition, about half of school board members are currently or
formerly connected to law enforcement.
In other matters, the board will hear from Walter Kraft during the
citizen comment period and will recognize Tyler Holt, the third-place
winner in NASA’s 21st Century Explorer Video Podcast competition in
the age 11-14 age division. Entrants were asked to answer the question,
"What do you think is NASA’s greatest exploration achievement in the
past 50 years and why?" with a video podcast. According to its website,
the competition is “an education and public outreach project designed
to inspire and motivate the next generation of explorers and to compete
effectively for the minds, imaginations, and career ambitions of
America’s young people.”
The winners – including Tyler’s entry – may be viewed at
The board will also go into closed-door session to discuss, the agenda
says, personnel, student discipline, property and school security.
Not mentioned on the agenda is any discussion of the coming year’s
budget. The school board is asking the county for about $2.6 million
more than the current fiscal year; the county administrator’s draft
budget allows about $700,000 more. That figure from the county could
fluctuate up or down as supervisors begin their work, or it could
remain the same.