For the third year in a row, Lexington and Thomasville city schools have not been selected for multi-million dollar grants from the state to build new high schools, forcing leadership to reorganize and rethink how the projects will go forward.
Every year in the fall, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction provides grants to school districts to assist with capital needs, such as building new facilities. Grants from the Needs-Based Public School Capital Fund are funded with revenue from the NC Education Lottery
In November, NCDPI selected 10 school districts to share more than $392 million in state lottery-funded grant awards for school construction and renovation projects, which did not include Lexington or Thomasville…