As school systems across the country head into their fifth semester marked by the pandemic, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is examining how to stay safe while transitioning “back to normal.”
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N.C. Superior Court Judge David Lee ordered the transfer of $1.52 billion from the General Fund to the state Department of Public Instruction, $189.8 million to the Department of Health and Human Services and $41.3 million to the UNC System.
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George Griffin, Riza Jenkins and Mike Sharp were elected to the three vacant spots on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education in Tuesday’s election, according to unofficial results.
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The site is home to the former all-white girls Burwell School, which still stands in historic downtown Hillsborough. In recent years, historic commissions have worked to add more context about the lives of Black enslaved and free people who lived and worked at the school.
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According to the 35-day disclosure report, Pruitt, who is a registered Republican, has raised about $14,000 for her campaign, which is nearly seven times greater than the next-highest fundraiser.
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Gov. Roy Cooper announced the investment of $805 million in the state's early child care and learning programs in early October.
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Orange County Schools is working toward the creation of an honors Native American studies course at the high school level. The initiative was unanimously approved on Oct. 11 by the Orange County Schools Board of Education in a resolution "Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2021 and the Native Peoples’ of North Carolina."
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The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) Board of Education voted unanimously to add three mental wellness days to the 2021-22 school calendar on Oct. 21, with the aim of giving students and faculty time off to decompress during the school year.
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Faculty Council approved the IDEAS in Action curriculum in spring 2019, and the University plans to launch it in fall 2022. “We are moving away from this concept of checking off boxes and fulfilling requirements,” Nick Siedentop, curriculum director in the Office of Undergraduate Curricula, said.
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"We believe the endorsed individuals below would make strong candidates for office in Orange County. We urge you, if eligible, to vote in municipal elections in the upcoming month and support our local government."
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Triangle Bikeworks looks to provide students with a unique way of learning about the United States and its history outside of the classroom.
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Dianne Jackson and Anissa McLendon are the first women to receive the Jan Allen Award.
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The CHCCS Board of Education held a special meeting to discuss the evaluation process for the school district's superintendent, how to improve it and how to improve the board's relationship with the superintendent in the future.
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CHCCS recently released student proficiency data for standardized tests conducted in the 2020-21 school year. The data showed that proficiency scores for students decreased significantly, particularly for English language learners, between 2018-19 and 2020-21, down 13.7 percent. “We don’t know what caused all the changes, and we didn't test all the children,” Diane Villwock, executive director of assessment and research at CHCCS, said. “So when we compare this to '18-'19, and we know the instruction was different, we've got to be really careful to not lean too hard on that comparison. It's not apples to apples.”
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The Southern Oral History Program collects oral histories through recorded interviews that are able to capture first person experiences. This creates new primary sources that can add depth and context to existing historical records.
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