Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education members met with state legislators for the annual legislative breakfast on Monday. Guests included Speaker of the House Joe Hackney, Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, Rep. Verla Insko and chair of the Orange County Board of Commissioners Valerie Foushee.
Board members, guests and administrators discussed the state budget situation and its impact on local school districts. Other discussion items included funding for drivers education, charter school funding, dropout prevention, the school calendar law and a joint legislative committee studying various state funding formulas for public schools.
The group then attended the groundbreaking ceremony at Carrboro High School for the school’s new arts wing. The construction of the wing is expected to be complete in December.