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...
Teacher turnover at lowest rate in more than a decade
The Alamance-Burlington school system posted its lowest teacher turnover rate in more than a decade during the 2020-21 school year – though most ABSS...
ABSS will allow law enforcement’s drug-sniffing dogs to conduct random searches in middle and...
K-9 "officers" can detect illegal drugs, explosives, firearms, fire accelerants, and/or other illegal materials; use instituted by interim superintendent
Dogs will be patrolling the halls...
