“I want to attribute the hard work of our students, the wonderful teachers that they have, the commitment of the parents, and it’s a community that is very invested in the success of our students,” said Jeff Nash, the executive director of community relations for CHCCS.
Students at Cedar Ridge High School in Hillsborough had their video selected as a winner of the MyWorld360° contest focused around sustainability.
Students and community members gathered at UNC's South Building to protest the U.S. Department of Education’s request for the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies to revise its curriculum. Students for Justice in Palestine, a student group on campus, organized the demonstration.
Orange County Schools Board of Education released a statement denouncing the Ku Klux Klan, white supremacists and other hate groups.
Mitchell Stensland has become interim principal of Cedar Ridge High School amid parental concerns about the school's previous administration.
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.
Parents of Cedar Ridge High students demand change in leadership after kids go to school with flawed schedules.
Orange County Schools are developing a student reassignment plan that could alter where students in the district attend school.
With the last fiscal year having come to a close in June, changes were expected to be made to the state budget, especially where Medicaid, teacher pay and corporate tax cuts were concerned. But, Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the Republican budget proposal just three days before. A consensus needs to be made, but discussion is slowed with differing ideas about what to do with an $800 million revenue surplus. Republican senators have expressed their displeasure over Cooper’s “Medicare expansion ultimatum,” and are blaming Cooper for the breakdown in negotiations. Because this is on the state level, a government shutdown isn't imminent, but that doesn't mean the pressure is off. Without a budget, there cannot be any proper funding for crucial state departments that feed into and serve North Carolina communities and provide vital wage raises, public school funding and more.
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.
The Orange County Board of Education has 30 candidates for the superintendent position, after the former superintendent stepped down in June. The board is beginning to interview candidates, hoping to fill the position by November.
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.
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.
An Orange County elementary school teacher was charged with a felony following a threat to the school made by the teacher
Community members voiced their criticisms of the Orange County Board of Education's moderately unexpected reorganization.
The Daily Tar Heel received a letter from an anonymous sender containing a picture of current Orange County School Board Chair Will Atherton with a brown substance around his face.
This is not the only whooping cough outbreak in CHCCS this year.
