In local schools, an African American student is five times as likely as a white student to get suspended, and three times as likely to get reprimanded.
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.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Superintendent Tom Forcella will serve at least three years and seven months more in that position, with a $4,735 annual raise.
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education wants to get more public input before members will consider taking Memorial Day off the list of inclement weather days.
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.