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,...
WED. P.M: Eastern High School placed on ‘soft lockdown’ after gun reported on campus
But no gun found
Alamance-Burlington school officials reported late Wednesday afternoon that a student at Eastern High School reported another student as having a gun,...
Nearly half of ABSS schools get Ds and Fs on state grades
The state Department of Public Instruction has issued its annual school performance grades, along with End-of-Grade and End-of-Course test scores, for the 2021-22 school...
Supt. removes LGBTQ book from Western High library
Supt: Book is “highly inappropriate,” “borderline pornographic,”
“does not represent what we should be sharing with our students”
Alamance-Burlington superintendent Dr. Dain Butler has removed...
Four-year graduation rate drops 1.4 percentage points to 85.9 percent in 2021-22
Four of six high school lose ground; previous year had been system-wide high in on-time graduations
The Alamance-Burlington school system’s four-year graduation rate declined by...
By 4-3 vote, Southeast is name of new high school
Alamance-Burlington school board members voted 4-3 at a special-called meeting Tuesday night to name the county’s forthcoming seventh high school Southeast Alamance High School.
Voting...
Emails reveal school board members knew about naming committee
The Alamance News has examined emails sent to school board members which make clear that all school board members had been notified of a...
