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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ABSS sued over Broadview Middle School teacher’s ‘violent attack’ on student last Nov.
School board approved system's firing of teacher last week; teacher had expired license (but had not divulged that to ABSS)
A new lawsuit has been...
