Plans to convert Frank Porter Graham Elementary School to a magnet school were overwhelmingly rejected by children, parents and teachers at a Chapel Hill-Carborro City School System Board of Education meeting Thursday night.

Concerned parents of students at Frank Porter Graham and Mary Scroggs Elementary Schools will attend the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School System Board of Education meeting at 7p.m. in the Chapel Hill Town Hall.

Kristine Lewis’ autistic son was in the first grade at Chapel Hill’s Ephesus Elementary when she decided to pull him out for home-schooling.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education members are likely to approve the conversion of Frank Porter Graham Elementary School to a magnet school, despite parent outcry against the transition.

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School’s lunch policy has accumulated thousands in unpaid lunch fees for the school district. At a March meeting, CHCCS Board of Education voted to appropriate money from their fund balance to cover almost $40,000 in unpaid meals.

Even as crews work on Elementary School 11, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School district leaders are already looking toward the next wave of district schools.

At a tear-filled meeting Thursday night, parents and teachers voiced concern about turning Frank Porter Graham Elementary into a magnet school.

Like many undocumented immigrant students, Emilio Vicente said he knew early in high school that he would have trouble attending college — and that worry made him depressed.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is requesting feedback on its recently released Dual Language report.

Many Chapel Hill residents have joined the national Hunger Games craze, but one parent wasn’t so enthusiastic.

Students at Chapel Hill High School usually learn civics out of textbooks, but on Thursday afternoon their lesson plan got a little more personal.

Though Chapel Hill and Carrboro’s days of child labor are long past, the end of McDougle Middle’s school day was signaled Thursday by a factory whistle instead of a school bell.

Parent preferences and school district priorities are getting lost in translation when it comes to the Chinese dual language program in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. A report released by the district this week that recommended phasing out the program has upset parents and teachers.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools’ newest elementary school is taking its first major steps toward becoming a reality. Elementary School 11 will be located in the Northside neighborhood and has been planned to help reduce district overcrowding.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools are among the first in the nation to test a new, workforce-oriented technology course, one teachers say is raising the standard for high school computer applications classes.

As a junior at East Chapel Hill High School, all Ben Peltzer wanted to do was direct his own one-act play in a theater class.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is taking steps to ensure a handful of recently reported cases of whooping cough do not turn into an outbreak.

A Google application recently approved by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education could help parents keep a better tab on their children’s grades — but some worry the new technology might not reach the parents who need it the most.

Fifth-grader Bonnie Stolt says she has been reading at least 100 minutes a day since her elementary school began its 14th annual Read-a-thon. She and the rest of the students at Frank Porter Graham Elementary School are aiming to read that much everyday from Jan. 20 to Feb. 3. Their effort is part of a two-week fundraiser that brought local celebrity guest readers to the school for a special event Wednesday night.

Esther McCauley remembers walking past a cornerstone at the entrance of the principal’s office each day while attending Lincoln High School from 1949 to 1952.