Former Efland-Cheeks Elementary School teacher Omar Currie stood before a full audience of adults at the Chapel Hill Public Library and read a children’s book: King and King, a story about two princes who fall in love and...
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A parent advocate for PACE Academy explained why she’s fighting to keep it open.
Read MorePACE Academy will fight in court Tuesday to keep its doors open. Teachers, students, parents and alumni of PACE Academy gathered at the State Board of Education building Monday morning. They were there to protest the...
Read MoreThe General Assembly passed a stop-gap spending measure Tuesday. The bill keeps the government funded until mid-August while the chambers grapple over the final budget. But the measure does nothing to ease the concerns of 8,500...
Read MoreDante Veltri is a wrestler at Carrboro High School…but his greatest match was off the mat.
Read MoreOrange County Public Schools canceled the public hearing planned to discuss a gay children’s book. Parents complained after former Efland-Cheeks Elementary teacher Omar Currie read his third-grade class a story about two princes...
Read MoreBoth appeals challenging the use of the fairy tale “King & King” in a third-grade class at Efland-Cheeks Elementary School have been dropped, according to the school system. The public hearing scheduled for Thursday has been...
Read MoreThe third-grade teacher who read King and King to his classroom to solve a bullying problem at Efland Cheeks Elementary School has resigned. Omar Currie told WCHL in mid-May, following the initial controversy over the fairy tale...
Read MorePublic schools across North Carolina are entering their final weeks of the year, and that means it’s testing time for students. But with childhood obesity on the rise, schools face pressure to balance test preparation with the...
Read MoreMany teachers will say their most important, and sometimes most difficult, job is keeping students engaged. That challenge has prompted one local kindergarten teacher to come up with an out-of-the box idea. The covered-outdoor...
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