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Siegrist Student Leaders Partner for Snow Plow Art Project
10/17/2025
Siegrist Elementary's Career & Community Student Leader Team kicked off the school year with a creative community partnership! Students participated in a snow-themed art contest, with the winning design (created by 4th grader Chloe Spencer) to be painted on a Platte City Public Works Department snow plow blade.
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Breaking Ground on the Future: Northland Workforce Development Center
08/29/2025
On Wednesday, August 27, the Kansas City Northland community came together to celebrate two ceremonial groundbreakings of the Northland Workforce Development Center (NWDC), a 145,000-square-foot facility dedicated to preparing students and adults for high-demand careers.
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2025 Teacher and Service Person of the Year
05/08/2025
With a surprise addition to an all-school assembly and a special interruption of a staff meeting, Platte County School District announced its Teacher and Service Person of the Year in May. This year's Teacher of the Year is Cherie Thatcher, Special Education Teacher at Barry Elementary; and Service Person of the Year is Jon Brady, Permanent Substitute at Northland Career Center.
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Platte County School District Takes Home Honors at Northland Excellence in Education Banquet; Siegrist Elementary’s Rachel Minter Named Christa McAuliffe Winner
04/24/2025
Platte County R-3 School District represented well at the 39th annual Northland Regional Chamber of Commerce (NRCC) Excellence in Education Banquet, held at the KCI Expo Center on April 23, with Siegrist Elementary's Rachel Minter taking home the evening's top honor, the Christa McAuliffe award.
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Strategic Plan Update 2025-30
02/07/2025
Platte County School District engaged parents/community members, students, and staff to gather input, information, and perspectives to help shape the District’s new strategic plan for 2025-30.
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PCHS Featured on the Today Show's "Friday Morning Lights"
11/20/2024
The Today Show featured Platte County High School on November 8 for their final "Friday Morning Lights" segment of the season. PCHS's head football coach Bill Utz was interviewed by NBC's local affiliate (KSHB's Taylor Hemness), and PCHS's football team, band, cheerleaders, color guard, and dance team, along with a crowd of Pirate fans showed up bright and early to be featured.
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Northland Career Center Receives $30M State-Appropriated Matching Grant for New Facility
05/26/2022
Over the course of the past four years, Northland Career Center (NCC) in partnership with PCR-3, has been developing a vision and plan to create a new, state-of-the-art, career center at a centralized location for its Northland consortium. Leaders have engaged various strategic partners to develop and market a future building concept. This concept became a more concrete idea in April 2021, after a presentation to the Missouri House Subcommittee on Federal Stimulus Funds. In May of 2022, the Missouri State Legislature invested in this workforce initiative by appropriating $30M of its FY 2023 budget to support NCC’s cause to build and grow a Northland workforce in Clay and Platte Counties.
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