The N.C. Supreme Court upheld a lower court's order today along party lines that required hundreds of millions of dollars to be allocated for public education. The case, Hoke County Board of Education v. North Carolina, is adjacent to the long-running Leandro case.
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The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction released performance data for school districts in the stat this September, which indicated disparities in performance between students based on provided demographic information.
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The Exceptional Children Educator of Excellence award is given out by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. A teacher for 11 years, Torry said she has been a special education teacher at Northside Elementary School since 2015.
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CHCCS middle school teacher Brandon Cartagena's teaching philosophy centers on the preservation of Hispanic culture, he said. Though he teaches social studies lessons in Spanish, not every student he teaches has a Hispanic background. For him, Cartagena said, teaching content in Spanish is a way to learn the language other than explicitly having language lessons.
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Last Saturday, Carrboro High School hosted an event for National Hispanic Heritage Month with keynote speaker Eliazar Posada, a Carrboro Town Council member. An advocate for home affordability and diversity appreciation, Posada urged community members to reach out to him about changes they want to see.
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The Orange County Schools Board of Education approved a request to create a new position, the Federal Programs Director, for the school system in a meeting on Monday. Board member Jennifer Moore moved to approve the position, and it was passed in a 4-3 vote.
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During National Principals Month, schools in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area are appreciating the leaders who are at the center of elementary, middle and high schools.
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On Sept. 15, the CHCCS Board of Education moved to approve the 2022-2023 budget resolution, which added several points to the previously approved budget for the fiscal year.
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Orange County is in need of an outside consultant for the continued development of school capital in Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, according to a report by the Capital Needs Work Group. CHCCS and OCS rank first and third respectively in statewide per-pupil funding. Despite this, a review by the work group found that funding availability is still a “significant issue” for both districts.
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Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools have canceled in-person classes on Friday, Sept. 30, due to expected hazardous conditions from Hurricane Ian.
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Teachers at Orange County schools will now be paid $40 per day for planning, grading and providing instruction during a planning period after the Orange County Board of Education unanimously voted to approve a stipend.
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Yoshimi Yamagata Aoyagi was recently awarded a Commendation by Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Aoyagi is a Japanese teacher at both of Chapel Hill's high schools and a founder of Animazement in Raleigh, a convention that celebrates Japanese culture through anime and manga.
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The UNC World View program has worked for over 20 years to connect K-12 and community college educators with the surrounding world to foster not only knowledge of global topics, but also collaborative professional development.
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The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Finance and Facilities Committee discussed the repair and replacement needs of Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools at its Sept. 13 meeting. With more than half of the schools being over 50 years old, the Capital Needs Work Group stressed the importance of major repairs and reconstruction. Board members predict that the necessary renovations could come out at upwards of half a billion dollars.
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As North Carolina students return to classes for the new school year, schools across the state are working to ensure their safety through a variety of security and preventative measures. For some North Carolina counties, this means installing body scanners at school entry points or introducing portable detectors for large gatherings. Other programs, including the Say Something Anonymous Reporting System and Crisis Go apps, help students anonymously report threats and quickly connect them to their school’s administrative and security teams.
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Visibility Forward — founded by four UNC students — aims to use education as an avenue to promote a society where Asian American history is recognized as American history.
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Kaye Martinez, the assistant librarian at Culbreth Middle School, just started her 36th year in the position. where she has worked with over 34,000 students. “Whenever I think about her, I think just how kind she is – just kind, inclusive and caring,” Librarian Stephanie Steele said.
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released its 2022 State Health Improvement Plan (NC SHIP) in August. The plan explains strategies to improve key indicators of health identified by the Healthy North Carolina 2030 report. “I think if we really want to serve everyone equitably, we have to do that multidisciplinary approach,” Caitlin Fenhagen, criminal justice resource director for Orange County, said.
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At its work session on Sept. 1, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education discussed sending a letter to the Orange County Board of County Commissioners to request a budget amendment for staff pay.
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“One of the key things here is that this case is not weighing whether or not we need to invest more in education,” Mary Ann Wolf, president and executive director of the Public School Forum of North Carolina, said. “What the appeals are about is who can make the legislature adequately fund our schools.”
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