First-generation and immigrant families have historically faced challenges in getting adjusted to the U.S. school system due to difficulties accessing technological resources and language barriers, among other things. The COVID-19 pandemic has only amplified those issues.
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Existing language and technology barriers exacerbate the difficulties local refugee and immigrant families face with tasks like helping children in online school and applying for unemployment.
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Nearly one year has passed since the System's first day of remote learning, and the CHCCS community is reflecting on the challenges the year has brought while preparing to return to the classroom.
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All students in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district will now be returning to in-person education a month earlier than previously decided.
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New teachers in Chatham County reflect on the uncertainty and unpredictability of teaching during the pandemic.
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N.C. legislators filed a bill on Feb. 10 to make Holocaust and genocide education mandatory for public schools, but Durham minister and activist Paul Scott is demanding the bill also include Black history.
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It doesn’t appear to have Gov. Cooper’s support, despite him calling on K-12 school districts across the state to allow in-person instruction earlier in the month.
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With first-place finishes in seven events, the Chapel Hill High men's swimming team ultimately beat Marvin Ridge High School by almost 5 points.
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“We are responsible for school and community climate," board member Jennifer Moore said. "We are having to address issues of inequity because our predecessors did not.”
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Reid, who was diagnosed with a chronic kidney disease in 2014, recently published a letter asking for help finding a donor. Her disease has now progressed to stage four and her kidneys have lost 85 to 90 percent of their function.
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Officials say residents should prepare for up to three days of lost power as Orange County faces a winter storm warning from midnight Thursday until 7 a.m. Friday, with a likely ice accumulation of ¼ to ½ inches across central N.C.
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For artist Loren Pease, the program is a way to unite the community and encourage residents to support local businesses. “Considering the times we’re in, I figured it was a good, inclusive term to use, so I designed the art around the term ‘Stronger Together'," Pease said.
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The new K-12 social studies standards include terms such as racism, discrimination and identity and place a greater emphasis on social movements and competing historical narratives. To some local students and teachers, however, the standards don't go far enough to ensure that the hard conversations will be had.
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This Black History Month, students consider the erasure of Black history lessons in schools. “When I think about the way that African American history is cramped and restricted to a few figures and those figures, in turn, are often sanitized, they’re reduced to a few selected stories to represent their lives," UNC professor Glenn Hinson said.
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All students, except for those in kindergarten or first grade, will return to in-person instruction in April.
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