ABSS

Alamance County’s board of commissioners has decided not to sign off on a proposal that would’ve effectively tripled the monthly pay that members of the Alamance-Burlington school board receive...

Most nearby school systems – in Chatham, Guilford, Randolph, and Rockingham counties – and more than 75 percent across the state have some or all students back in the...

The McCray School, a one-room schoolhouse on the outskirts of east Burlington that Samuel Bradshaw built in 1915 to educate the community’s black children, is likely to get a...

Alamance-Burlington school board members will consider asking Alamance County’s commissioners for nearly $50 million for the upcoming fiscal year. If approved, the proposed $50 million county funding request for ABSS...

After a four hour discussion Tuesday afternoon, Alamance-Burlington school board members voted 5-2 to bring students back for in-person instruction in March, postponing a date of February 1 reached...

QUESTION: Is it true that Alamance-Burlington school board member Patsy Simpson went to a “Black Lives Matter” rally in downtown Graham this past weekend, even though she has voted...

Parents speak up for return to in-person, in-classroom instruction Alamance-Burlington superintendent Dr. Bruce Benson recently presented school board members with figures showing that a combined total of nearly 40 percent...

Total enrollment in the Alamance-Burlington school system declined by 1,109 students, from 22,851 students during the 2019-20 school year to 21,742 students for the current, 2020-21 school year, representing...

Editor's note: This is an excerpt from a longer story about many (almost 40%) ABSS students having failed at least one course during the first nine-week grading period last...

Survey shows difference between parents, ABSS staff on returning to in-classroom instruction: parents ready to have students return; teachers aren't Alamance-Burlington schools will reopen for in-person instruction starting February 1,...