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Board approves CTE application, federal funding application and contracts for special‑needs services
Summary
The board approved the Career and Technical Education local application, the district’s 2025–26 federal funding application including Title programs and CSI funds, and multiple contracts to support students with special needs (psychological assessments, speech services and interpreter services).
The Lenoir County Board of Education approved several funding applications and contracts on June 2 that keep classroom programs and student supports funded for the 2025–26 school year.
Board members voted to approve the Career and Technical Education (CTE) local application that the district must submit to the state Department of Public Instruction to receive state and federal CTE funds for programs identified in the application. Doctor Jones presented the application and the board approved it by voice vote.
The board also approved the district’s federal funding application for 2025–26, which the district said includes Title I Part A (support for disadvantaged students), Title I Part C (migrant education), Title I Part D (prevention/intervention for neglected and delinquent youth), Title II‑A (professional development and recruitment), Title III (language acquisition), Title IV (student support and academic enrichment) and Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) funds targeted to Lenoir County Learning Academy.
Separately, the board approved contracts totaling several hundred thousand dollars to provide special education and related services: a psychological services contract with Coastal Kids Evaluation Services for $90,000; a speech services contract with Tar Heel Human Services for $250,000; a speech services contract with Kinetic Pediatric Therapy for $98,000; and an interpreter network contract for $150,000 to provide two sign‑language interpreters for a deaf‑blind student. The presenter emphasized these agreements are necessary to meet federal mandates and ensure access to the general curriculum.
Child nutrition procurement was reviewed as information and will be brought back for action at the next meeting. The district reported that Cisco of Raleigh will serve as the food distributor, Sysco won the supplies bid, and the milk contract was awarded to the low responsive bidder (recorded in the packet as 'Mayola'). Staff said all bid paperwork and renewals have been submitted for board action at the next meeting.
What happens next: Contracts and the funding applications approved at this meeting will allow vendors and service providers to begin work or billing for the 2025–26 school year as permitted by executed agreements and state/federal funding timelines.
