The proposed Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools budget would set a wage floor for employees of $12.76 per hour, which is the current minimum wage for Orange County government employees.
At Thursday’s Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board meeting, some said the 2015-16 budget should put more money into narrowing achievement gaps between groups of students – for example between white and black students.
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board swore in its new member Thursday, but some expressed disappointment with the way the board made its decision.
The Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools System is taking applications to replace outgoing member Mia Burroughs, who was elected Tuesday to the Orange County Board of Commissioners.
Members of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education expressed their anger toward the Republican leadership of the North Carolina General Assembly Thursday night, before voting five-to-zero to approve a budget that cuts 22 teacher assistant positions.
Educators and school administrators all across North Carolina are anxious about the State House budget that’s due this week; and those in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools system are certainly no exceptions.