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CHCCS expands Mandarin

By Jenny Surane | January 16

Sometimes you can’t turn back. At least, that’s the lesson members of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School Board of Education are learning with ...

Disabled student sues Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

By Marissa Bane | November 25

Earlier this year, a court dismissed two parents’ claims that their autistic daughter didn’t receive appropriate educational services from Chapel ...

Moseley Architects is winning an award for their design of Northside Elementary School in Chapel Hill. Northside Elementary on Wednesday morning. North Carolina School Boards Association's Award for Excellence in Architectural Design

Northside school designer wins award

By Caleb Waters | November 24

Moseley Architects won The Award For Excellence in Architectural Design last week at the North Carolina School Board Association conference in Greensboro. ...

Matt Hughes, Orange County Democratic Party Chair, congratulates James Barrett on his election to the Board of Education Tuesday evening at 411 West restaurant on West Franklin Street.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board incumbents stay on

By Morgan Swift | November 5

It was minutes before the final results rolled in, and 11-year-old Thea Barrett had her eyes glued to her laptop and her favorite good luck trinket — ...

Mold found on high school library books

By McKenzie Coey | September 10

Chapel Hill High School’s library books are moldy, but not because students aren’t reading them. The school found mold in some of its books after ...

School group gets $1 million

By Anna Long | September 9

Orange County students might be using homemade solar ovens to make s’mores now that a local nonprofit has received a million-dollar grant.

Frank Porter Graham Elementary reopens as bilingual school

By Holly West | August 25

Students can finally say “Hola!” to a bilingual magnet elementary school when Frank Porter Graham Elementary School reopens today as Frank Porter ...

Howard and Lillian Lee Scholars Charter School delays opening again

By McKenzie Coey | August 16

For the second year in a row, the Howard and Lillian Lee Scholars Charter School will not open on time.

Tax reform package to end Tax-Free Weekend

By Cammie Bellamy | July 24

A popular tax holiday geared toward back-to-school shoppers is set to end after this year, and some local school officials say they have concerns about ...

New school, old ground

By Cammie Bellamy | July 16

Last year, the CHCCS Board of Education decided to name the district’s 11th elementary after the historic segregated school. And for Northside alumni ...

School district officials hope to scrap class rank

By Daniel Schere | July 10

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools leaders are attempting to get rid of a statistic many colleges use to evaluate applicants.

NC Senate budget proposes K-12 education cuts

By Sarah Brown | May 29

The N.C. General Assembly has one month from today to pass a two-year state budget — and legislators and educators remain up in arms about funding for ...

Dr. Niklaus Steiner, director of the UNC Center of Global Initiatives, is giving a opening talk on the Refugee Outreach Workshop in Global FedEx Center

Panel discusses refugee students in CHCCS

By Daniel Schere | May 19

As Burmese refugees continue to flow into Orange County, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools officials are working to better serve immigrant students. School ...

Hla Win Tway, a 8th Grader/15 years old girl studying at Smith Middle School, is connecting the monitor to the main body under the instruction of the volunteer, Mr. Alan Brown, who is a technical specialist for Northside Elementary School. He lives in Morrisville.

With free computers, CHCCS helps families connect

By Cammie Bellamy | May 5

CHCCS’s Community Connection program, which provides students and their families with computer and internet access, distributed 50 desktop computers ...

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools to ask for $5.4 million in extra funding

By Gayatri Surendranathan | April 23

In the face of state and federal budget cuts, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will ask Orange County officials Thursday for $5.4 million in extra funding ...

Monument commemorates Chapel Hill's all-black school

By Olivia Page-Pollard | April 21

A crowd of about 30 gathered Saturday to view the commemoration of a new monument celebrating the former students and faculty of Lincoln High School, ...

Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools partners with Weaver Street for school lunches

By Caroline Hudson | April 18

Continuing its mission to provide healthier school lunches, Chapel Hill- Carrboro City Schools is now offering more local food options to students.

Achievement gap revisited by Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools educators

By Grace Tatter | April 17

Howard Lee said he has been having the same conversation about the achievement gap since 1966.

Frank Porter Graham Elementary School to fully convert to dual-language

By Gayatri Surendranathan | April 14

Kelly Serrano, a Latina mother with three sons in dual-language classes at Frank Porter Graham Elementary School, loves that her children are taught in ...

Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools program bridges internet gap

By Corinne White | March 31

Kerry Sherrill, Carrboro Elementary School’s social worker, remembers one of her third-graders jumping up and down with glee in January after receiving ...