News & Announcements

By Suzanne Prescott, Early Childhood Programs Director

Data from Butler County Educational Service Center (BCESC) shows Head Start attendees had higher average Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA) scores.

Finding enough substitute teachers to fill in at classrooms was hard to do during the best of times, say state and local school officials. And now, finding substitute instructors to fill in for absent, full-time teachers during an ongoing global pandemic is even further from the best of times.

For the fourth year, students in a Middletown elementary school received free shoes and socks thanks to a Dayton-area non-profit organization and a $5,000 donation from Suburban Propane.

Butler County Educational Service Center (BCESC) is pleased to announce that it has once again been recognized as one of the best places to work in Cincinnati by The Enquirer. BCESC has made an appearance on Cincinnati’s Top Workplace list each year since 2013 and is one of 135 organizations featured on 2021’s Top Workplaces list.

Tawana Keels, president of the Butler County Educational Service Center (BCESC) Governing Board, has been recognized for her 20 years of service as a public school board member.

Butler County ESC proudly announces Julieta Ramirez as recipient of the 32nd Annual Franklin B. Walter All-Scholastic Award and Kayla Prosser as the 2021 Martha Seward Rahfuse Memorial Scholarship winner.

Mary served on the Butler County ESC governing board for 19 years and also served as board president.

Teaching staff at the Butler County Juvenile Detention & Juvenile Rehabilitation Centers (JDC/JRC) recently celebrated a milestone achievement: helping 25 incarcerated students fulfill their high school graduation requirements over the course of the last five years.