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...
Was ABSS child nutrition director fired for bringing a gun to work?
QUESTION: Was the Alamance-Burlington school system’s director of Child Nutrition fired last week for bringing a handgun to work?
ANSWER: Yes, Pamela Bailey, the director...
Even school officials now report: remote learning contributed to poor performance
Over the past two years, concerns have multiplied among parents about whether their school-aged children were getting as good an education as prior to...
