School board members press health director about vaccines, safety of school reopenings
Alamance-Burlington school board members quizzed Alamance County health director Tony Lo Giudice during their latest work session about when ABSS teachers will be eligible...
Commissioners don’t sign off on tripling monthly pay for school board
Alamance County’s board of commissioners has decided not to sign off on a proposal that would’ve effectively tripled the monthly pay that members of...
Other school systems have in-person classes; why doesn’t ABSS?
Most nearby school systems – in Chatham, Guilford, Randolph, and Rockingham counties – and more than 75 percent across the state have some or...
Historic McCray school to get a face-lift after ABSS go-ahead
The McCray School, a one-room schoolhouse on the outskirts of east Burlington that Samuel Bradshaw built in 1915 to educate the community’s black children,...
School system looking to increase local funding request by 10.5%
Alamance-Burlington school board members will consider asking Alamance County’s commissioners for nearly $50 million for the upcoming fiscal year.
If approved, the proposed $50 million...
ABSS pushes back school openings to March
After a four hour discussion Tuesday afternoon, Alamance-Burlington school board members voted 5-2 to bring students back for in-person instruction in March, postponing a...
PUBLIC ASKS: Is it true a school board member attended a BLM rally...
QUESTION: Is it true that Alamance-Burlington school board member Patsy Simpson went to a “Black Lives Matter” rally in downtown Graham this past weekend,...
Almost 40% of ABSS middle & high school students failed at least one course...
Parents speak up for return to in-person, in-classroom instruction
Alamance-Burlington superintendent Dr. Bruce Benson recently presented school board members with figures showing that a combined...
ABSS enrollment down; lowest in 15 years
Total enrollment in the Alamance-Burlington school system declined by 1,109 students, from 22,851 students during the 2019-20 school year to 21,742 students for the...
ABSS parents voice continuing concerns about inadequacy of remote, online-only, instruction – and its...
Editor's note: This is an excerpt from a longer story about many (almost 40%) ABSS students having failed at least one course during the...
