BREAKING MON. NIGHT – ABSS school board votes to scrap ‘specialty schools’ plan, instructs...
Alamance-Burlington school board members voted 4-3 Monday night for superintendent Dr. Dain Butler's proposal to keep seven attendance zones for the high schools across...
ABSS to close Friday as hurricane rains and wind approach
As Hurricane Ian continues to move up the East Coast, school officials are hunkering down, preemptively, cancelling all classes for students and staff on...
ABSS superintendent announces ‘zero tolerance’ policy for violent crimes on school grounds
Alamance-Burlington superintendent Dr. Dain Butler has announced that ABSS students who commit certain types of violent crime at school will automatically face long-term suspension...
ABSS names 2022 Principal and Assistant Principal of the Year
The Alamance-Burlington school system has named the 2022 principal of the year and assistant principal of the year.
Hawfields Middle School Principal Greg Hook was...
Eastern High School gets random drug search Wednesday morning
Alamance-Burlington school system officials, in cooperation with the Alamance County sheriff’s K-9 division, conducted a random drug search at Eastern High School Wednesday morning.
The...
Eastern student one of two teens found murdered in western Orange County
Two teenagers, including an Eastern Alamance High School student who had been reported missing this weekend, were found fatally shot Sunday afternoon in the...
Supt.: high school redistricting plan should be reconsidered; questions ‘specialty schools’
In this three-part story in this week's (Sept. 15) edition, ABSS superintendent Dr. Dain Butler and other ABSS officials outline reassessments on:
The existing...
Divided school board willing to re-open discussion about 2017 redistricting plan to take effect...
Alamance-Burlington school board members voted 5-2 this week – following nearly two hours of discussion – to revisit the high school redistricting plan that...
ABSS surveys consistently report little interest in enrolling at Cummings, Graham specialty schools
Another goal of the 2017 high school redistricting plan had been to provide rigorous academic programs at each high school, as well as to...
All but one high school projected to be over capacity in 2023-24
Alamance-Burlington assistant superintendent Dr. Todd Thorpe presented a proposal Tuesday afternoon that would modify four elementary school attendance zones (Alexander Wilson, E.M. Holt, Hillcrest,...
