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Challenge Award of Merit

Challenge Award of Merit

Dr. Deena Horst, State Board of Education Member (District 6) presented the Challenge Award of Merit to both Lincoln Elementary School and Lincoln Jr/Sr High School. Our schools were among 100 schools across the state to be recognized. The Challenge Awards were created to honor schools that performed well on the state assessments and had high percentages of students from disadvantaged backgrounds, including those who live in poverty, and often members of a minority group. Administrators and teachers have started to see the Challenge Awards as motivation to reach for even higher levels of performance. The awards help showcase the many positive academic achievements taking place in schools with predominately high-risk populations. The Challenge Awards recognize schools for outstanding achievements and uncommon accomplishments based on Kansas math and reading assessment results and other qualifying factors, specifically the sample size, ethnicity and social-economic status of those taking the test. We also now include graduation rates when calculating high school results and chronic absenteeism rates for middle and elementary schools. The steps used to identify Challenge Award honorees are as follows: A statistical model is used that includes 2019 math and reading state assessments scores, the percent of the sample that received free or reduced-priced lunch and the percent that were members of an ethnic minority. Graduation rates and chronic absenteeism are factors, too. The top 100 Kansas schools are then selected. Only schools that have a total percentage of free and reduced-price lunch students above the state average of 45.7 percent are eligible for recognition. The schools are then sorted into State Board of Education districts.

Grandpa's Little Lassie
Grandpa's Little Lassie
Grandpa's Little Lassie

Grandpa's Little Lassie

Jenny Lynn Hiligeist grew up in Lincoln County with family roots that go back at least four generations. She is the eldest daughter of Royce and Toni Hiligeist and is one of 12 children ranging in age from 35 to 12. Jenny was homeschooled until time for high school, then completed her first 13 years of school at Lincoln Jr/Sr High School, graduating with the class of 2011.

This isn’t your grandmother’s antiquing

One man’s (or woman’s) junk is another’s treasure, especially when the junk is treasure to the American Pickers! In February, the Lincoln Area Chamber of Commerce received a press release from the History Channel series “American Pickers,” looking for leads for their Kansas picking trip in April 2022, with plans to film the hit television series throughout the area.

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