ABSS scales back request for additional school resource officers
ABSS administration has decided to seek $260,000 for four more SROs, rather than $1.1 million for 17 new positions, as originally outlined to school...
Critics skewer proposal to hire 17 new SROs as part of $50M ABSS...
"Defund the police" evolves to criticism of having school resource officers; specifically, five residents lobby ABSS not to increase number
Alamance-Burlington school board members heard...
Let the school board vote on its own raise
We thought it was apropos that the county commissioners last week avoided being suckers for the school board.
School board members ducked their own decision-making...
Is school board wavering over reopenings planned for March 1, 8?
While Alamance-Burlington school system students are supposedly within weeks of returning to their schools, for the first time in nearly a year, some school...
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...
