Gov. Roy Cooper visited Chapel Hill on Tuesday, Nov. 19 2019 to announce that Well Dot, Inc, a health technology company will base its new operations center in the town and create 400 jobs.
Elementary schools in North Carolina are now able to reopen at full capacity, Gov. Roy Cooper announced at a Thursday briefing.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is one of two public schools systems in Orange County. The system is run by the CHCCS Board of Education, which is comprised of seven elected officials who hold four-year terms. Under the board is the superintendent. The current superintendent is Tom Forcella.
The district includes 11 elementary schools, four middle schools, four high schools, a middle college with Durham Technical Community College and a school for children at UNC Hospitals. These schools serve more than 12,000 students across Orange County.
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On Aug. 17, Cedar Ridge High School experienced a Zoombombing incident where disrupters yelled obscenities and the N-word and posted inappropriate images to a shared discussion board. This incident raised questions about how cybersecurity and digital safety are being handled during online learning.
The CHCCS Board of Education met Thursday to discuss these learning centers, the end of a professional development grant and survey results from students’ families.
The Students First: Equity Through Opportunity grant will focus on supporting students of color, English learners and students with disabilities.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will have a fully-remote fall semester ending Jan. 15. Orange County Schools will have a fully-remote first nine weeks of the school year. The district will return to school for in-person instruction when it is safe to do so, according to the OCS website.
“This podcast is really something that can promote inclusion in schools,” Phoenix Tudryn, a Carrboro High School senior, said. “If Black and brown student voices are being heard, then schools can cultivate an environment where Black and brown students are comfortable.”
“This is not a a decision I want to make,” Jim Causby, the district's interim superintendent, said. “There are two other options that I’d certainly prefer.”
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In the district's plan, cohorts of students would alternate between remote and in-person learning, with some grades starting out the year completely remote.
Although students in both Orange County school districts have been away from their physical classrooms for months, the NCDPI-sponsored Summer Jump Start, a program made possible by CARES Act funding, is helping some students bridge the COVID-19 gap.
At the fourth protest in Chapel Hill in the past two weeks, students, teachers and community leaders alike joined to talk about the role of education in systemic racism, and changes they want to see in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.
As Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School students move into the summer break and the coronavirus pandemic continues to affect families' economic situations, the school district and community partners will continue to feed students under the Food for Students program.
Dr. Jim Causby will return to CHCCS as interim superintendent starting on July 1 and will remain in the position until a permenent superintendent is found.
Having lost many parts of their final year of high school to COVID-19, including prom, awards nights and other senior activities, many Orange County seniors are relying on their graduation to be one final hurrah.
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' P-EBT program, which aims to help North Carolinians combat food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic, will provide families across the state with additional food benefits.
Orange County and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School boards' budget proposals are likely to change after review from the County Commissioners due to unexpected revenue loss from COVID-19.
Students, parents and teachers in local school districts are trying to adjust as schools transition online due to COVID-19. Caroline Spencer, whose son is a senior at East Chapel Hill High School, said her son has been assigned grades in his classes based on his work from before school shut down, and his classes have been canceled. “He's pretty much done,” she said. “He’s been accepted to college and he probably won't have a prom or graduation, and he's right now just focused on hoping that he gets to start school in the fall.”
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