Twelve students from Orange County joined a group of more than 200 high school students from across the state who attended the Tobacco. Reality. Unfiltered. (TRU) Youth Advocacy Day in Raleigh on Jan. 21.
Category: Schools
Race to Nowhere
The McDougle Middle School PTA will host a public screening of the documentary Race to Nowhere on Feb. 26, at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium at Carrboro High School.
School board further opposes charter school
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education voted last week to send a letter detailing why the board opposes the school to the N.C. State Board of Education.
Cornerstone celebration
The cornerstone from the Orange County Training School was recently found in an Orange County storage facility.
Ethics bowl
The Parr Center for Ethics at UNC will host the 2nd Annual Triangle High School Ethics Bowl on Feb. 11.
CHCCS shakeup
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Superintendent Tom Forcella has announced a reorganization of the district’s central office staff.
District band honors
Ten students from CHCCS middle schools were named to the Middle School Central District Bands.
Carrboro High hosts first quiz bowl tourney
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Tyson scores 1,000
Carrboro High School junior Diamond Tyson was honored last week as the school’s first basketball player, male or female, to score 1,000 points in her high school career.
Nurse of the year
The School Nurse Association of North Carolina named Janice Anderson of Frank Porter Graham Elementary School the 2011 School Nurse of the Year.
Parent feedback wanted
hapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is inviting parents to share their thoughts in a survey as the district works toward developing a new strategic plan, which will lay out goals for improving student performance.
Elementary 11 plans outlined
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district is breaking ground on a new elementary school that it hopes will help alleviate its overcrowding issue.
Organic garden celebrates anniversary
The Chapel Hill High School Green Tiger Campaign’s Community Garden will celebrate four successful years on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the garden.
Active Estes Hills
Staff members at Estes Hills Elementary were named the top team in the state in the “Be Active Schools Challenge.â€
District health coordinator honored
Scarlett Steinert, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools coordinator for athletics and healthful living, was recognized by NCAAPHERD as one of three outstanding North Carolina healthful living coordinators.