2 Wichita area schools among 3 in Kansas to receive national honor

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) – Two of three Kansas elementary colleges honored with nationwide recognition are within the Wichita space. U.S. Secretary of Schooling Miguel Cardona on Friday acknowledged 297 colleges nationwide as Nationwide Blue Ribbon Faculties for 2022.

The faculties acknowledged in Kansas embrace Andover’s Cottonwood Elementary College, Sedgwick’s R.L. Wright Elementary College and Morris Hill Elementary College at Fort Riley, within the Geary County College District.

A information launch from the U.S. Division of Schooling stated, “the popularity is predicated on a faculty’s general educational efficiency or progress in closing achievement gaps amongst scholar subgroups.”

“I applaud all of the honorees for the 2022 Nationwide Blue Ribbon Faculties Award for creating vibrant, welcoming, and affirming faculty communities the place college students can study, develop, attain their potential, and obtain their desires,” stated Secretary Cardona. “As our nation continues to recuperate from the pandemic, we all know that our future will solely be as sturdy because the training we offer to all of our youngsters. Blue Ribbon Faculties have gone above and past to maintain college students wholesome and secure whereas assembly their educational, social, emotional, and psychological well being wants. These colleges present what is feasible to make a permanent, optimistic distinction in college students’ lives.”

You’ll be able to study extra concerning the Nationwide Blue Ribbon program and see the entire award recipients right here: https://nationalblueribbonschools.ed.gov/?utm_content&utm_medium=e mail&utm_name&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term.

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