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...
Divided school board votes to resume in-person classes February 1
Survey shows difference between parents, ABSS staff on returning to in-classroom instruction: parents ready to have students return; teachers aren't
Alamance-Burlington schools will reopen for...
ABSS teacher of the year named regional designee
Alamance-Burlington 2020 Teacher of the Year Kelly Poquette has been named the Piedmont-Triad regional Teacher of the Year.
Poquette, who teaches music at E.M. Yoder...
