Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education members listen to comments from the public during a work session on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019 in Chapel Hill.
Staff and parents are voicing concerns over the school's transition.
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.
Learn more about the district's Board of Education here.
Browse board meeting agendas and videos here.
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Tortora hasn’t explicitly confirmed that the donations — which totaled $650 between 2016 and 2019 — were his, but the donations are attributed to the name Louis Tortora and the state of North Carolina in the Federal Election Commission database.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report last month confirming over 1,200 individual cases of measles in 31 different states since the beginning of the year, the highest number of cases reported in the U.S. since 1992. And the effects are being felt all over the country, including in Chapel Hill.
A few staff members in CHCCS schools are bridging the language barrier between school and home.
The OC Voice is a portion of the OC Report newsletter where local residents may have a platform to talk about local issues they care about. This week, Assistant City & State Editor Jamey Cross is breaking down all the 2019 election coverage you can expect to see from The Daily Tar Heel this fall.
During the 13th Annual Teacher Supply Store, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools Community gave their teachers the opportunity to shop for school supplies for free. Over 600 invited teachers were given $75 vouchers to buy the extensive stock of supplies with.
Programming robots is not how most students spend their summers; but for students at the Empowering Excellence through Education (E3) Camp it’s just another Wednesday, playing and creating with technology and experiments meant to introduce them to the world of science, technology, engineering and math.
Sarah Cornette, an art teacher at Mary Scroggs Elementary in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district received a grant from the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching for a semester research program. The program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State with funding provided by the U.S. Government and administered by IREX, allows for applicants who receive the award to participate in either a short term or semester long research program. Cornette spent her semester split between three places, gathering perspectives from different children in different parts of the world. With the objective to gather the answer to what kids think is important to their community, Cornette collaborated with children in two parts of Greece and in Chapel Hill. Despite language and cultural barriers and some expectations that did not meet reality at first, Cornette produced a three-panel work of art that, according to her, won't be complete without some additional voices.
I mean, what are you afraid of? After all, it’s just a box.
In honor of the anniversary of D-Day, these students helped honor two veterans with a fully-funded trip to Normandy.
Camaraderie that not even free food can facilitate. OC Voice columnist Luke Vermeer talks about the important role that sports have played on his high school experience.
"So, how do I think our Chapel Hill-Carrboro community, and country as a whole, can value all people and their ideas? We can start by remaining curious, questioning assumptions and suspending labels."
AP class might be challenging, but that isn't a reason not to encourage students of color to enroll in them. It should be the role of teachers and counselors to encourage students, especially those of color, to push themselves when they can.
This is not the only whooping cough outbreak in CHCCS this year.
The board discussed the disproportionality in disciplinary actions on the basis of race, voting on the new member and the renovations for Frank Porter Graham Elementary School.
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools System has been accused of making decisions about the Blue Ribbon Mentor-Advocate program without including the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community.
Following the second annual State of the Schools address, CCHCS superintendent, Pamela Baldwin, commits to improvement in a three-step plan.
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