32 Percent of County Residents Lack a Diploma
January 12, 2022
The large number of Moore County adults who have not earned a high school diploma is one of a number of challenges facing the county identified by Panhandle Community Services of Amarillo (PCS), the Texas Panhandle's largest social service agency, in the organization's latest Community Needs Assessment Report about the state of poverty in the Panhandle. PCS administers a wide variety of federal and state programs designed to provide something of a social safety net for the population of the 26 counties of the Panhandle.
On Wednesday, PCS Executive director Magi York and several members of her staff were at the Calvary Baptist Church in Dumas for a luncheon meeting with a number of local government leaders and representatives of non-profit agencies to discuss the findings of the report and talk about meeting the identified needs of what is a large part of the population. Among those taking part were Moore County Judge Rowdy Rhoades, Hutchinson County Judge Cindy Irwin, Moore County Hospital District CFO John Sharpe, Assistant Director R20HP AmeriCorps Laura Seals, and others.
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