Western High grad wins top Economics honor at UNC-Chapel Hill
Western High School 2018 alumnus Brady Smith of Burlington has been awarded the 2022 Undergraduate Prize in Economics as he prepares to complete his...
School board may eliminate 365-day athletic ineligibility for children of ABSS employees who switch...
Alamance-Burlington school board members have given preliminary approval to several proposed policy changes, including one that eliminates a 365-day athletic ineligibility period for transfer...
School board votes 5-2 to ask commissioners for 9% funding increase for next...
Two weeks ago, when school board members first heard the ABSS administration’s proposal for an increase in local spending, school officials wanted just over...
School board receives 24 applications for superintendent’s job
The Alamance-Burlington school board has received 24 applications for its vacant superintendent’s position.
School board vice chairman Patsy Simpson said Monday night that ABSS initially...
School board stalls on awarding new custodial contract
Alamance-Burlington school board members stalled this week on awarding a contract for custodial services currently provided by The Budd Group of Winston-Salem, whose work...
Teachers: ‘We are juggling flaming chainsaws every day’
Alamance-Burlington school board members heard from four ABSS teachers – including the 2020 and 2021 teachers of the year – about how the board...
Commissioners Lashey vs. Thompson debate over charter schools vs. other public schools
A request from a charter school developer set off a spat among two members of Alamance County’s governing board that, in a different setting,...
Construction of new high school continuing on schedule
Steel beams have been erected and exterior concrete walls are underway on the Alamance-Burlington school system’s seventh high school that’s being built along N.C....
School board tentatively agrees to trim $2.5M from increase in county budget request
Alamance-Burlington school board members are scheduled to continue discussing, and possibly vote on, a county budget request at their upcoming meeting Monday night.
Meanwhile, school...
School system considering $7.4 million renovation of former Sellars-Gunn school
Alamance-Burlington school board members put on their thinking caps this week to consider a possible renovation of Sellars Gunn Education Center – the former...
