Meet the high schooler fighting period poverty in Cumberland County Schools
Amber Johnson, a senior at Gray’s Creek High School, is creating period product pantries in the county’s public middle and high schools. She’s asked the county commissioners to provide annual funding to keep them stocked.
At some Cumberland County schools, more than half of students are chronically absent. Here’s what that means
Cumberland County’s public schools are struggling with high rates of chronic absenteeism.
