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Orange County Schools Unhappy With Budget Proposal

Posted by Staff | May 26, 2016 | Pre-K - 12 Education

Addressing the Orange County Board of Commissioners for the first time since the 2016-2017 fiscal budget was proposed, chair of the Orange County Schools Board of Education Donna Coffee expressed her displeasure with the current...

Orange County Schools See New Leadership

Posted by Staff | May 25, 2016 | Pre-K - 12 Education

Orange County Schools is shuffling around two of the district leaders for next year. Eric Yarbrough is the current principal of Gravelly Hill Middle School. But come next year, he will serve as the new principal of Orange High...

Community Members Ask Orange County To Increase School Funding

Posted by Staff | May 12, 2016 | Featured, Local Government

School funding quickly became the focus of the public hearing held by the Orange County Board of Commissioners Thursday night. Teachers, students and parents from Orange County Schools showed up in Hillsborough to ask the board...

County Manager Presents Orange County Budget Recommendations

Posted by Staff | May 5, 2016 | Featured, Local Government

Orange County took the first steps toward getting a budget approved for the coming fiscal year as manager Bonnie Hammersley presented her recommendations to the Board of Commissioners Thursday night. Commissioner Mia Burroughs...

Board Of Commissioners Set To Talk County Budget

Posted by Staff | May 5, 2016 | Featured, Local Government

The Orange County Board of Commissioners will receive the county manager’s recommendation for the 2016-2017 fiscal year budget in their meeting Thursday night. The budget will address a number of topics including school...

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...

School 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...

Commissioners To Hold Public Hearing On Upcoming Bond

Posted by Staff | Apr 19, 2016 | Local Government

The Board of Orange County Commissioners will be taking public comment on the upcoming bond Tuesday night. It will be the first of two public hearings on the bond which, if passed in November, will be the largest in county...

Commissioners Reject Proposal To Hire Contractor For Bond

Posted by Staff | Mar 24, 2016 | Local Government

Orange County could be issuing a bond worth up to $120 million to go to both Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill – Carrboro City Schools after the elections in November. Because this would only pay for a fraction of the...

Orange County Schools Superintendent and Middle School Receive Awards

Posted by Staff | Feb 5, 2016 | Featured, Pre-K - 12 Education

Orange County Schools Superintendent Dr. Todd Wirt has been named the 2016 Outstanding Young Educator by the North Carolina Association for Supervision and Curriculum. Wirt began his job as superintendent on July 1, 2015....

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