A community fundraising effort spearheaded by Kingston resident Jill Draper reached its goal last week, with the remaining $3,500 of the KCSD’s $5,877 school lunch debt being donated by around 40 total donors.
Last month, Kingston school officials revealed the district was seeing gains in some key areas of student achievement but coming up short in others.
The Kingston High School gymnastics team went from winning a 13th straight Section IX title two years ago to almost not happing at all this season.
Jill Draper never planned on starting a local movement. The Kingston resident and small business owner said she only wanted to find a way to help local kids when she committed $500 toward erasing student lunch debt. And now, thanks to other generous donors, the debt district-wide is within reach.
The Kingston High School girls’ varsity basketball team didn’t mind seeing January come to an end. The team was winless during the first month of the year, and head coach Steve Garner said the Tigers have to treat the rest of their regular season schedule like the playoffs.
If the numbers hold, the KCSD is in for an increase of 11.31 percent.
The KCSD’s Board of Education last week waded into potentially controversial waters as it unanimously approved a pair of resolutions with both state and national implications.
The Kingston High indoor track and field team is off to a solid start to the season, though as with any year in any high school sport there have been growing pains.
The John A. Coleman Catholic boys’ varsity basketball team is undermanned, outgunned and thus far winless. But coach John Funk said Statesmen team spirit remains high.
‘I think we’re a group that can get better as a team each and every week and each and every game.’