School board won’t expand ‘seniors only’ redistricting exemption for 2023-24
Alamance-Burlington school board members this week upheld their earlier decision to allow only rising seniors to remain at their current high schools once Southeast High School opens and the...
Governor visits B. Everett Jordan
Gov. Roy Cooper visited B. Everett Jordan Elementary School Tuesday afternoon to recognize the 2023 National School Counselor of the Year, Meredith Draughn, as part of National School Counseling...
County eyes school system’s capital reserves to pay off debt for courthouse expansion
Among the highlights of county’s annual retreat were discussions about two big-ticket endeavors that the county’s administrators have been struggling to fit into the county government’s budget.
Of particular interest...
School system: all but $12M in federal stimulus money has been spent
Nearly all but about $12 million of the $82 million that the Alamance-Burlington school system received in federal Covid-19 stimulus relief funding has been spent, school board members were...
School board hears early pleas for more county funding for ABSS
Alamance-Burlington school board members haven’t yet begun their annual slog through the various departmental funding requests in order to establish their county funding priorities and submit a budget request...
School board OKs program to give first-offenders job training at ACC instead of community...
Alamance-Burlington school board members voted 7-0 Monday afternoon to approve a pilot project, called the Alamance Juvenile Opportunity Bridge (AJOB), which aims to cut off the school-to-prison pipeline.
If the...
Top contractor exec assures new Southeast High School will be finished on time
A top-ranking executive with Samet, the Greensboro-based contractor that’s building the county’s seventh high school along South N.C. Highway 119, assured Alamance-Burlington school board members Monday night that construction...
Southern athletes and coaches press school board to let students pick where they’ll go...
Alamance-Burlington school board members heard Monday night from eight speakers – five students, two coaches, and one parent, all from the Southern attendance zone – who urged them to...
No change (yet) to allowing only seniors to stay at current high school after...
Some still pressing to add juniors to 'grandfathering' exemption
A decision that seemed to have been settled a month ago – to only allow rising seniors to remain at their...
ABSS hires from within to replace retiring chief operations officer
The Alamance-Burlington school system has hired from within to replace one of its top-ranking administrators, chief operations officer Dr. Todd Thorpe, who recently announced his intention to retire at...
