CCSD is participating in the yearly Toy Drive. The Toy Drive supports our local community. The public is welcome to participate and drop off at any of the schools in the district. See the attached flier for more information.
Happy Election Day! Exercise your rights today!!
Happy Halloween!
Red Ribbon Week, October 23-31, 2024. Celebrate life Drug-Free!!
It's National School Bus Safety Week. Help us keep our bus students safe. 1. Slow Down, 2. Be Alert, 3. Come to a Complete Stop, 4. Watch for children and parents moving around the bus before continuing on. See the image below to know how to handle bus stop situations.
CCSD is introducing My Ride K-12, a parent communication app, to its transportation operations!
My Ride K-12 is a mobile app integrated with student transportation software that allows both you and your student to access estimated times of arrival or departure for your bus. This helps ensure that you and your students are on time for pick-ups and drop-offs while making the bus route more efficient.
My Ride K-12 is now available for you to download on your Apple or Android mobile device. Simply search the app store for “My Ride K-12” to download and register yourself on the app.
For more information on how to register, visit: https://www.chester.k12.sc.us/page/my-ride-k-12
Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month! Meet Geraldo Rivera, an American journalist, attorney, author, and political commentator. He has been a TV news reporter since the 1970s, had his own talk show in the 80s and 90s, and has been part of the Fox News family since 2001.
Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month! Meet Tom Flores, an American professional football player in the AFC and coach in the NFC. He played primarily for the Oakland Raiders, winning 4 Super Bowls as a player, assistant coach and head coach.
Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month! Meet Scott Gomez, American ice hockey player from 1998-2016 and coach from 2017-2019. He was drafted 27th in the first round and played for several teams in the US and Canada.
Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month! Meet John Ruiz, American professional boxer from 1992-2010, who held the heavyweight title twice between 2001 and 2005, and has a professional record of 44-9-1-1. Thirty of his 44 wins were by knockout.
REMINDER: Monday, October 14, 2024, is our District OEC Professional Development Day. There will be no school for students.
All normal school operations will resume on Tuesday, October 15, 2024.
Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month! Meet Alberto Gonzalez, an American attorney who served as the 80th Attorney General (the first Hispanic American to do so). He has also served as Secretary of State of Texas, as a Texas Supreme Court Justice, and as White House Counsel.
Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month! Meet Julia Alvarez, an American New Formalist Poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to fame with her novels: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), among others.
Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month! Meet Severo Ochoa, a Spanish born biochemist and molecular biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1959 for his discovery of an enzyme in bacteria that enabled him to synthesize ribonucleic acid (RNA).
Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month! Meet Luis Alvarez, an American experimental physicist, inventor and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of resonance states in particle physics using the hydrogen bubble chamber.
Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month! Meet Desi Arnaz, a Cuban American actor, musician, producer and bandleader. He played Ricky Ricardo on the TV show I Love Lucy, and co-founded Desilu Productions with his wife Lucille Ball.
Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month! Meet Henry Cisneros, an American politician and businessman, former mayor of San Antonio, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Clinton administration.
Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month! Meet Nancy Lopez, an American pro golfer who became a member of the LPGA in 1977, winning 48 LPGA events including three championships.
Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month! Meet Linda Ronstadt, an American singer who performed and recorded in various genres, including rock, country, light opera, the Great American Songbook, and Latin music.
Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month. Meet Dolores Huerta, an American labor and civil rights activist, who, with Cesar Chavez, co-founded the United Farmworkers Association.
