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Four local schools named finalists for national award

The National Museum of Patriotism in Atlanta has named four Fayette elementary schools as national finalists for the 2005 KC3 Citizenship in Motion Award.

Braelinn, East Fayette, Kedron and Robert J. Burch are among only 14 schools nationwide to make the cut for the award, which recognizes outstanding performance and achievement in the area of positive citizenship. The benchmark for the award is implementation of the KC3 Casey Positive Label Certification Program that encourages partnership and community outreach.

School teams named as finalists exceeded all program goals and earned outstanding partnership scores. Each finalist decreased name calling by 10 percent while increasing kind words and cooperation by 10 percent. Pre and post impact was measured by independent program surveys.

“Many of these national finalists scored two and three times the national program requirement level,” said Jim Balster, director of the National Museum of Patriotism.

Finalists now advance to the competition’s KC3 case study phase. This step provides finalists the opportunity to showcase their best practices. KC3 case study results along with program statistics will be combined and reviewed by the national judging panel to determine national winner groups.

National winners will be announced in May. They will be recognized locally and will be guests of honor at the program award gala and ribbon cutting event scheduled for June 2. Group names will become a permanent part of the museum’s new Casey KC3 citizenship exhibit.