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PowerSchool Cybersecurity Incident January 2025
PowerSchool recently alerted Ashe County schools and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) to a cybersecurity incident impacting student and teacher data across the country. This incident was not isolated to North Carolina. PowerSchool is a student information system (SIS) that has been in use in North Carolina since 2013. As you are aware, Ashe County moved away from PowerSchool and upgraded to Infinite Campus in July of 2024. Although we are no longer with PowerSchool, we were informed that there was a compromise to student and teacher data that was hosted at PowerSchool....
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Ashe County High School Media Specialist Tonya Denny Selected for Prestigious Education Policy Fellowship Program
Ashe County Schools, NC – Ashe County Schools is proud to announce that Tonya Denny, Media Specialist at Ashe County High School, has been selected to participate in the highly regarded Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP) hosted by the Public School Forum of North Carolina.....
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ACMS Teacher, Andrew Cerillo, Named Finalist for NC Beginning Teacher of the Year
Ashe County Schools is proud to announce that Andrew Cerrillo, a math teacher at Ashe County Middle School, has been selected as one of 27 finalists for the prestigious 2025 Burroughs Wellcome Fund NC Beginning Teacher of the Year Award, presented by the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT).....
