With the passage of Senate Bill 128 Kentucky families may apply for a supplemental school year.  This legislation is in response to pandemic-related disruptions in the past two school years. The supplemental school year allows students to repeat, retake, or supplement courses or graded levels already completed. All applications must be submitted to the Newport Board of Education by 3 PM May 1, 2021 for consideration. The application may be rescinded at any time before 3 PM May 20, 2021. 

The Newport Independent Board of Education will review the applications and make a determination by June 1, 2021 for SB 128 requests. 

School districts are not allowed to decide on an individual basis. If our school district decides to accept requests for a supplemental year, we will accept all requests.  If our district decides not to accept requests for a supplemental year, we will accept no requests.

A separate application must be submitted for each child.  

Newport Independent Schools Supplemental School Year Application

Amanda Barbour, who serves as the Behavior Intervention teacher at Newport Primary School, has won the Smart/Maher Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) National Citizenship Education Teacher Award from the John R. Little VFW Post #3186 in Southgate.

The award reads that Barbour has been honored "in recognition for promoting citizenship education in your classroom and your school". Barbour is also being honored as the District winner. 

Two eighth grade students from Newport High School have qualified for the Kentucky state academic team competition for the first time in team history.

Daniela Coronado and Riahana Ragster both emerged from the Kentucky Association for Academic Competition (KAAC) District and Regional tournaments to advance to the state competition.

Daniela placed first in the District and fifth in the Region for Composition while Riahana placed third in the District and Region in the English/Language Arts (ELA) Assessment. The students will compete in the state competition the weekend of March 13 and 14.

We are excited to announce that Kentucky has been approved by the USDA to provide Round 3
of P-EBT benefits to all eligible students to cover the period of October 2020 through May 2021.

● Benefits will be applied to existing cards
● Lost cards can be replaced by calling 855-979-9949 (can take up to 14 days)
● If you have moved recently, update your address by calling 855-306-8959

Two students from the Newport Independent Schools were named winners of the St. Elizabeth Northern Kentucky Junior Fire Marshall Poster Contest. 
Maelyn Gilliam, a fourth grader at Newport Intermediate School, and Andres Pablo-Macario, a second-grade student at Newport Primary School, were each awarded $30 for their winning entries.
 

Newport Intermediate School poster winner, left to right: Newport Intermediate School Principal Dennis Maines; Newport Independent Schools Superintendent Tony Watts; winning student Madelyn Gilliam; Newport Intermediate School Assistant Principal Jennifer Michael; Newport firefighter Chris Holmes. 

Newport Primary School poster winner, left to right: Newport firefighter Matt Garrett; Newport firefighter Chris Holmes; winning student Andres Pablo-Macario; Newport Independent Schools Superintendent Tony Watts.