Johnston Co. educator wins “teaching Oscar”


Bryan Holley, a fourth grade teacher at Corinth-Holders Elementary School (Johnston County Public Schools), received this past Wednesday what some call the “Oscar of Teaching” when he was named North Carolina’s 2008 Milken Family Foundation National Educator award recipient.

Holley is among the nation’s approximately 80 most recent recipients of this award, which carries with it an unrestricted financial award of $25,000.

Holley is the only North Carolina educator to receive the award this year. To read more, please go to the NCDPI