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Category: Schools

Dual-language students win Chinese writing contest

Posted on May 13, 2010May 13, 2010 by Staff

Students in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro dual-language program swept the Under 13 native speakers category of N.C. State’s Confucius Institute 2010 N.C. Chinese Writing Contest.

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Local students’ art honored

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Staff

Alexandra Kanarski, a senior at East Chapel Hill High School, and Maryanna Holmes Parker, a sophomore at Orange High School, were honored as participants from Orange County in the Fourth District Congressional High School Arts Competition, sponsored annually by the U.S. House of Representatives …

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Golf-o-Rama at Chapel Hill High

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Staff

The work of Chapel Hill High School honors geometry students will be on display May 13 at Golf-o-Rama. Eighteen holes of mini-golf, designed and built by the Honors Geometry students of CHHS, will be open from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. in the school gym.

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UNC student named Phillips Ambassador

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Staff

Tiffany Yonts, daughter of Kimberlee and Richard Yonts of Carrboro, has been awarded a Phillips Ambassadors scholarship for study in Asia.

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Lunch Menus

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Staff

FRI 5/14 — Spaghetti & Meat Sauce w/Garlic Breadstick; Corn Dog; California Mixed Vegetables; Sweet Yellow Corn; Banana Pudding. MORE

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Estes Hills wins Battle of Books

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Staff

The “Courageous Carrots” in Stefanie Janke’s fourth-grade class at Estes Hills Elementary won the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Battle of the Books district championship. Battle of the Books is a voluntary reading-enjoyment program. Students read the same books and practice creating and answering recall questions about the books. For the first time in the history…

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Exhibit highlights refugees

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Staff

The Art Therapy Institute is presenting an exhibit titled “Journey to a Different Landscape: Visual Expression through Art Therapy,” featuring the artwork of children who are recent arrivals to our community as refugees from Burma. This artwork was created during their art-therapy sessions intended to help these children heal from past trauma and express their…

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Forty computers awarded

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Staff

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School’s Community Connection program awarded 40 student households with free computers and Internet access. Eighty-nine students will benefit from the award, which is part of the district’s efforts to eliminate the digital divide among its students. The computers were made available through partnerships with Kramden Institute Inc. of Durham, the Human Rights…

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Trading the carpool for walking shoes

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Staff

The days of walking and riding your bike to and from school may soon be returning to Carrboro.

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Estes Hills goes green

Posted on May 6, 2010May 6, 2010 by Staff

Estes Hills Elementary School might be celebrating its 50-year anniversary this year – but even an old school can go fashionably “green” in celebrating Earth Day and reviving their Read-A-Thon program.

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Science team takes third

Posted on May 6, 2010May 6, 2010 by Staff

The Phillips Middle School Science Olympiad team of 18 seventh- and eighth-grade students placed third among 46 middle school teams in the 35th North Carolina Science

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Schools unlikely to receive full funding

Posted on April 29, 2010April 29, 2010 by Susan Dickson

Several commissioners urged school board members to dip into their capital funds, which are allocated for facilities, for operations costs.

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BRMA to host improv night

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Staff

The Blue Ribbon Mentor-Advocate program will host an Improv Comedy Fundraiser on May 6 at DSI Comedy Theater in Carrboro. Featuring program director Graig Meyer as “Mr. Diplomat,” the show will also include members of the DSI Comedy Actors. Tickets are $20 and proceeds go to help send BRMA students to summer camp. The show…

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Carrboro teacher honored

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Staff

VIF International Education is proud to honor five of its visiting exchange teachers in the 2010 International Educator of the Year awards program, including Carrboro Elementary School teacher Luz Mery Suárez. Suárez, who is a first-grade Spanish instructor in the school’s dual-language program, has been teaching in the U.S. for two years through VIF, an…

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Board of education hosts legislative breakfast

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Staff

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…

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