Carrboro High School Students Get A “Sense Of Place”
All year long, Carrboro High School teacher Melissa Barry has been giving her students a taste of our community’s history.
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Merging Orange County School Districts Not ‘Worth the Squeeze’
Posted by Blake Hodge | Apr 28, 2016 | Featured, Pre-K - 12 Education
While our community works to find a way to provide housing options to every family that would like to live Orange County, former Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt brought up an idea during the WCHL Community Forum that has...
Read MoreCHCCS “Probably” Won’t Get All Of Requested Funding For Teacher Pay
Posted by Staff | Apr 26, 2016 | Featured, Pre-K - 12 Education
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will likely not get all of the $4.5 million they have asked for to increase teacher salaries in the district. Both Chair of the Board of Orange County Commissioners Earl McKee and commissioner...
Read MoreSchool Boards Prepare To Present To County Commissioners
Posted by Staff | Apr 26, 2016 | Pre-K - 12 Education
Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will present their 2016-2017 budgets to the Orange County Board of Commissioners in a meeting Tuesday night. The presentation will be the next formal step for CHCCS, in...
Read MoreAt CHCCS, Celebrating Local Volunteers
Posted by Aaron Keck | Apr 16, 2016 | Pre-K - 12 Education
Hundreds of people, many of them UNC students, volunteer for CHCCS every year.
Read MoreTale As Old As Time: “Beauty And The Beast” At Cedar Ridge HS
Posted by Aaron Keck | Apr 16, 2016 | Pre-K - 12 Education
Cedar Ridge’s spring musical opens this weekend.
Read MoreCommissioners, Board Of Education Discuss Bond Referendum
Posted by Staff | Apr 15, 2016 | Pre-K - 12 Education
In preparation to place the largest bond in Orange County history on the ballot in November, CHCCS representatives met with the Board of Orange County Commissioners Tuesday to discuss the details of the possible $125 million...
Read MoreCHCCS Takes Risk To Increase Teacher Pay
Posted by Staff | Apr 8, 2016 | Pre-K - 12 Education
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools’ Board of Education is committing to raising teacher pay in the district, but is doing so at their own risk. The Board of Education has now officially locked themselves into raising the...
Read MoreCHCCS Prepares To Ask County For Nearly $4.5 Million
Posted by Staff | Mar 21, 2016 | Featured, Pre-K - 12 Education
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education is getting ready to ask Orange County for an additional $4.465 million to help with increases in teacher salaries. Superintendent Tom Forcella said these increases were...
Read MoreCHCCS Wins National Recycling Award
Posted by Blake Hodge | Mar 10, 2016 | Featured, Pre-K - 12 Education
Chapel Hill – Carrboro City Schools has been named the national district winner of Keep America Beautiful’s Recycle-Bowl, according to the school system. A release says Recycle-Bowl reaches nearly 700,000 students and...
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