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No. 21 UNC baseball overpowers Miami, 4-2, to secure series win

| March 29

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

CHCCS plans incentives to recruit and retain bus drivers amid shortage

By Caroline Kelly | September 16

There's a higher demand for drivers at the moment since the county is back to in-person learning, CHCCS Director of Transportation Bradley Johnson said. ...

Gov. Cooper vetoes bill barring public schools from teaching critical race theory

By Alexandra Myers | September 13

“The legislature should be focused on supporting teachers, helping students recover lost learning, and investing in our public schools,” Gov. Cooper ...

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Jeff Nash retires from CHCCS after leaving an impact across the community and state

By Isabella Reilly | September 12

“He would always say, ‘from your Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools,’” Robin Nucilli, communications specialist for CHCCS, said. “He wanted everybody ...

CHCCS votes to mandate vaccination for employees at Sept. 2 board meeting

By Emily Schmidt | September 7

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education voted unanimously last week to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for all employees by Oct. 31. Since ...

Decades after CHCCS desegregation, data shows racial disparities persist

By Kalley Huang | August 31

This year marks 60 years since desegregation began in CHCCS. But even now, across the district’s 20 schools, white students access more opportunity ...

CHCCS removes painted pride flag from classroom wall

By Isabella Reilly | August 29

Jeff Nash, executive director of community relations for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, said in an email that the flag was painted over due to an ...

CHCCS honors Stan Vickers after 60th anniversary of desegregation efforts

By Kelli Rainer | August 29

The CHCCS Board of Education honored Stan Vickers at a recent school board meeting for his contributions to the original desegregation movements in ...

Parents express concerns as CHCCS students return to school

By Susie Webb | August 17

K-12 students in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools start school on Monday. Though the district has put COVID-19 protocols in place, some parents say ...

Seats in 5 local offices are on the ballot this November

By Madison Ward | August 16

In this year's election cycle, mayoral, town council and board of education seats are up for grabs in both Chapel Hill and Carrboro.

For some Black families in CHCCS, remote learning is a "breath of fresh air"

By Sonia Rao | May 4

Courtney McLaughlin, mother of three CHCCS students, said some Black families have felt more included in their students’ education during remote learning. Instead ...

North Carolina's K-12 schools address falling student attendance due to pandemic

By Kayla Guilliams | May 4

Almost 20 percent of K-12 students in North Carolina aren't attending school four days a week. In local school districts like Chapel Hill-Carrboro City ...

Phillips Middle School commissions piece for student orchestra

By Ellis Riggsbee | April 27

Thanks to a grant from the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public School Foundation, a Phillips Middle School orchestra teacher was able to commission a piece for ...

CHCCS board approves block scheduling for Carrboro High School starting this fall

By Niharika Vattikonda | April 26

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education unanimously approved a motion to adopt a modified seven-period block schedule for Carrboro High ...

Carrboro Elementary PTA auction raises money for school, supports local businesses

By Alexandra Myers | April 15

The Carrboro Elementary PTA is hosting an auction and raffle until April 16, with funds being used to help the school. Everything being auctioned was ...

Edith Wiggins leaves behind a storied legacy in the Chapel Hill community

By Susie Webb | April 11

Edith Wiggins, UNC’s first African American vice chancellor and dean of student affairs and former director of the Campus Y, died on April 4. Wiggins ...

For non-English speaking families, the pandemic amplifies educational barriers

By Heidi Pérez-Moreno | April 7

First-generation and immigrant families have historically faced challenges in getting adjusted to the U.S. school system due to difficulties accessing ...

Statewide coalition demands action to ensure a sound, basic education for all students

By Bethany Lee | March 30

The coalition and call for change came in response to several years of a constant decline in state school funding, ranking N.C. as one of the lowest in ...

Most public school records in N.C. will now show students' preferred names

By Ella Layn | March 30

A recent change from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction will now allow North Carolina public school students to list their preferred ...

CHCCS students return to in-person classes

CHCCS students, teachers return to in-person instruction for the first time in a year

By Jacob Meredith-Andrews | March 30

On Friday morning, about one hundred students returned to Frank Porter Graham Elementary School to finish out their first week of in-person instruction ...

Chapel Hill increases monitoring of busy roads following recent pedestrian crashes

By Audrey Selley | March 28

The Town conducted the first of these sessions on March 23 and March 27. March’s efforts focused on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, where two pedestrian ...