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Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools facilities are overcrowded

By Brian Fanney | November 28

Although the district has not seen abnormal growth, six of the 17 Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools facilities are over capacity. Of these five, four ...

Orange schools could redistrict

By Victoria Stilwell | November 18

Elementary students could be attending different schools as soon as next year if plans to redistrict Orange County Schools materialize after the board ...

Scroggs Elementary brings back "Writer's Cafe" for student authors

By Tori Koesters | November 14

A local elementary school is giving its students a less formal way to show off their writing talents in front of their classmates, teachers and family. Mary ...

Finding a 'plan B' for Orange County Schools

By Victoria Stilwell | November 3

When voters defeated the county’s proposed sales tax increase, they did more than save themselves a quarter for every $100 purchase. Schools, emergency ...

Carrboro school builds rain garden to stop harmful effects of runoff

By Brian Fanney | October 31

Middle school students came together Friday for the culmination of a local effort to stop the harmful effects of rain runoff. The town of Carrboro and ...

Search for new Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools superintendent begins

By Sarah Glen | October 31

As most residents began their weekends, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education began its search for a new superintendent. With the ...

Superintendent Pedersen named Administrator of Year

By From staff and wire reports | October 27

Superintendent Neil Pedersen was named Administrator of the Year by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Association of Educational Office Professionals. Pedersen ...

Shelly Smith,7, holds up a pink shirt she got from Operation School Bell, a program run by the Assistance League of the Triangle area.

Operation School Bell distributes clothing to need kids

By Victoria Stilwell | October 26

About 75 Central Elementary School students received their share of nearly $8,000 in clothes from the Assistance League Triangle Area’s Operation School ...

Nilson Ferreira da Silva, Rose Mary Machado and Francisco Cruz de Nascimento have seen American perspectives on education through the Brazil Administrator Exchange Program at Chapel Hill High School.

Chapel Hill educators learn through exchange

By Lenzie Purcell | October 26

Local principal Jesse Dingle didn’t expect to gain “lifelong friends” when three Brazilian principals visited Chapel Hill. But through the Brazil ...

Schools learn across borders

By Marissa Barbalato | October 26

A partnership with a school in Mexico will soon broaden the horizons of local students. Carrboro High School, along with seven other schools in Chatham, ...

Jean Hamilton appointed to Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education

By Lenzie Purcell | October 25

One year after her term ended as a Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education member, Jean Hamilton is back. Hamilton was selected to fill former ...

CHCCS elementary schools nominated for two awards

By From staff and wire reports | October 17

Two Chapel Hill-Carrboro City schools are currently competing for national awards. Seawell Elementary and Ephesus Elementary have both been nominated ...

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools administrators attend RtI Innovations Conference

By From staff and wire reports | October 13

Six CHCCS district administrators participated in the Response to Instruction Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, last week. The conference celebrated ...

Children and parents of Carrboro Elementary School take part in International Walk to School Day on Wednesday morning. This is the sixth year Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools has participated in the event.

International Walk to School Day goes local

By Caitlin McGinnis | October 6

A parade of parents, children and dogs walked from Carrboro Town Hall to Carrboro Elementary School in an effort to promote environmentally friendly transportation. ...

McDougle Middle School's Learning Without Borders Week supports human rights

By Olivia Barrow | March 19

Students at McDougle Middle School are taking a break from their normal work to focus on human rights.

Local NAACP protest CHCCS decision to add more honors classes

By Olivia Barrow | February 25

Seventeen years after local educators first studied the achievement gap between white and minority students in local schools, very little has been done ...

Marilyn Metzler, middle, overlooks as Ben Swain, Eli Broverman and Raghav Swaminathan. DTH/Julie Crimmins

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools losing elective courses

By Julie Crimmins | February 16

Eleven students labeled brightly colored body outlines with the German words for different body parts last week.Later, their teacher, Marilyn Metzler, ...

CHCCS consider honors and hybrid classes

By Julie Crimmins | February 4

Community members can voice opinions today about a proposal to add more honors classes to the local school curriculum — either online or in a hybrid ...

School district expects layoffs

By Julie Crimmins | January 19

Another round of layoffs is expected at Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools due to the second significant cut to the district’s budget in two years.District ...