Nebraska SMART (Success Made Accessible through Rural Tutoring) is a free virtual tutoring program for K-12 students who attend NRCSA  (Nebraska Rural Community Schools Association) member school districts, school districts in Educational Service Units 1, 4, and 13, and other select smaller rural public-school districts. Teacher education candidates from Chadron State, Peru State, and Wayne State Colleges remotely tutor students through an online tutoring platform.

Nebraska SMART was established by the Nebraska State College System in partnership with the Nebraska Department of Education which awarded an Innovation Grant to the State Colleges to develop a rural tutoring program. Chadron State College, Peru State College, and Wayne State College collaboratively offer this free online tutoring program to K-12 students in rural Nebraska.

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FCCLA will be sponsoring the annual Turkey Your Principal canned food drive. Central Elementary, Jefferson Intermediate, and Fairbury High School will all be collecting non-perishable food items the week of November 11-15. The school that collects the most pounds of food will win the competition, and the designated principal of the winning school will wear a turkey costume the week of Thanksgiving. The non-perishable food items will be donated to Fairbury Blue Valley.