School districts plan renovations to oldest, crowded facilities
As the school year nears its end, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools are just beginning to plan renovations.
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As the school year nears its end, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools are just beginning to plan renovations.
Muralists Carlos Veras and Anthony Vasquez created two symbolic murals in Carrboro High School. Photo courtesy of Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School.
After visiting the Dominican Republic for the past two summers and painting murals with the organization Transcending Borders, Leah Simon wanted to do a similar project back home.
Instead of spending their time watching Saturday morning cartoons, many Chapel Hill children enjoyed the sunshine and science at the fifth UNC Science Expo this weekend.
On a Wednesday morning, 17 students in Pedro Ortiz’s fourth-grade class sit in a circle on a rug displaying a world map, reading from composition notebooks. They’re talking about spaceships. A girl raises her hand to contribute, then pauses, trying to think of how to say “taking off” in Spanish.
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School Board of Education will discuss whether to increase the wages of its approximately 2,200 employees to a living wage next week.
Local government employees, teachers, University staff and other public employees in Chapel Hill and Carrboro now have access to cheaper housing with Eller Capital’s new apartment incentive program.
When Principal Eileen Tully started working at East Chapel Hill High School in 2009, she set a goal for the next five years: to reduce the number of dropouts to zero.
For many families a snow day means sleeping in, playing in the snow and drinking hot chocolate.
The giggles erupting from red-nosed, bundled up kids make chilly snow days an enjoyable break from the regular school week — but the days off mean Orange County Schools students will have to go to school for a make-up day on Saturday.
At Morris Grove Elementary School, students can be seen silently walking around on a paved path through the woods at 7:30 a.m.
Darren Bell, creator of Chapel Hill Carrboro City School's Community Connection Program speaks at Smith Middle School on Feb. 5.
"Shifting normal" — That was the buzzword Dan Schnitzer, sustainability coordinator for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, repeated when discussing the district's nomination for the Department of Education's Green Ribbon award.
Sarahi Gamboa Ramirez failed one of her high school English classes because she couldn’t finish her homework on time. The homework, heavy on research and writing, required computer access she didn’t have at home.
Simon Lee was relaxing on a bench outside Chapel Hill High School’s library. He says he wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary — he was gossiping, joking with friends before his free period. Nothing he should have been disciplined for.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is moving toward more comprehensive and data-driven school counseling programs — an effort that has earned the district national recognition.
Allison Stewart never liked physics much, but watching her third-grade students create their own spacecrafts gave her a new perspective.
Three business owners have branched into the business of blessings, as they continue to assist area schools in paying off their overdue lunch debts.
CORRECTION: Due to an editing error, a previous version of this story incorrectly stated where the first gender-neutral bathrooms on UNC’s campus were located. The Campus Y created gender-neutral bathrooms in January, but the LGBTQ Center has kept a list of the gender-neutral bathrooms on campus since 2010. The story has been updated to reflect this change. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error.
Two Triangle professionals will be speaking at the GreenNC 2014 symposium in Raleigh Thursday, presenting their work on Northside Elementary.