School board skeptical of commissioners’ option for financing court expansion with funds set...
Patsy Simpson challenges whether commissioners have authority to take funds previously designated for school system capital projects for court expansion
A proposal to tap into...
Cummings, Graham students and parents take their turn at opposing redistricting plans
Alamance-Burlington school board members heard from two students and six parents, all apparently from the Cummings and Graham high school attendance zones, who said...
ABSS instructional assistant killed in wreck south of Graham
Alamance-Burlington school system officials announced Tuesday that an ABSS employee, Emma Rowland, was killed Tuesday morning in a car wreck.
Rowland, 20, had been employed...
ABSS retiring COO assures: new high school still on time
The departing chief operations officer for the Alamance-Burlington school system gave his final, parting assurances to school board members that construction of Southeast High...
Preliminary county budget request for ABSS totals $50.7 million – minus any capital outlay
Alamance-Burlington school board members Tuesday reviewed a potential county budget request for the upcoming fiscal year that totals $50.7 million, a figure which excludes...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
