Graduation rates improve countywide & at four of seven high schools
The Alamance-Burlington school system’s four-year graduation increased by eight-tenths of a percentage point, from 85.3 percent in 2022-23 to 86.1 percent for the 2023-24...
A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT ABSS SCHOOL GRADES: Is the glass half full, half empty....
ABSS SCHOOL GRADES: IS THE GLASS HALF FULL, HALF EMPTY. . . OR PERHAPS BOTH. There were four fewer Fs among the 37 ABSS...
ABSS schools make slight improvements in academic performance during 2023-24
Nineteen of the 36 Alamance-Burlington schools received a School Performance Grade of C or better for the 2023-24 school year, based on annual testing...
Newest state ‘grades’: 16 ABSS schools ‘continually low- performing’
Annual academic performance data released Wednesday by the state Department of Public Instruction (DPI) reveals that 16 Alamance-Burlington schools – or 43 percent of...
ABSS hires new finance officer
The Alamance-Burlington school board has hired the current chief financial officer for Chatham County schools, Tony Messer, to serve as the new chief finance...
An ABSS school has been added to list of plaintiffs seeking to block...
QUESTION: Isn’t there an Alamance-Burlington school that has been added to a list of hundreds of schools that are enjoined from enforcing the new...
Supporters, opponents of new Title IX regulations & LGBTQ provisions square off at...
A majority of the nine public speakers who addressed Alamance-Burlington school board members Monday night about the new Title IX policy adopted two weeks...
ABSS teacher’s grant to build greenhouse for hands-on instruction in limbo after site is...
Alamance-Burlington school board members postponed voting to revise an existing policy that governs grant funding for special projects, in order to add language that...
Why are ABSS employees directing traffic at schools?
QUESTION: Why are Alamance-Burlington school employees directing traffic during drop-off and pickup times at ABSS schools? Are they trained, and isn’t that a liability...
ABSS attorney: school system has no choice but to adopt new Title IX regulations
“You have to pass it to see what’s in it” seemed to be a silent coda at Monday night’s school board meeting, during which...
