Carroll County Comet

Get free help with financial aid

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:18:54 +0000

Plan to attend College Goal Sunday and get assistance with financial aid forms at Indiana University Kokomo this Sunday, Feb. 12, in the Kelley Student Center.

Levi Riggs to perform at DCHS fundraiser

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:19:04 +0000

Comet staff report

Rising country music artist

Levi Riggs is headlining a fundraising concert Feb. 25 at

Delphi Community High

School Little Theatre.

DCHS’s own Karli Edging will start the performance at

7:30 p.m.

Riggs, who writes much of fhis own music, has been on a nation-wide radio tour promoting his new single, “My

EDUCATION NEWS

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:19:09 +0000

Indiana University Kokomo honors part-time students who have earned a place on the dean’s list for 2011. To qualify, each student must maintain a minimum 3.5 grade point average (GPA) on a 4.0 scale. Area students earning recognition include: KRISTA R. ELLER and KAYLEIGH A. MORGAN, both of Delphi, and CYNTHIA J. BALLARD, Flora.

Indiana graduation rate improves for 5th straight year

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:19:11 +0000

Indiana’s graduation rate improved to 85.7 percent in the 2010-2011 school year, increasing 1.6 percent over last year and 4.3 percent over the 2009 rate. This is the highest graduation rate Hoosier students have achieved since the state began measuring the four-year cohort graduation rate in 2005.