East Chapel Hill High School has been selected as one of 20 schools in Wake, Durham, Orange, Harnett, Johnston and Chatham counties to take part in the “Farm Animal Frenzy†sculpture contest at the North Carolina State Fair. This year’s contest has “gone green.†Each participating school will receive a wooden sawhorse to use as…
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Target grant awarded
For the fourth consecutive year, Target has awarded a grant to Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Reading Partners program. Reading Partners is a volunteer program in which partners are assigned to beginning readers in kindergarten through first grade. These volunteers meet with a student on a weekly basis to support the student’s developing literacy skills. The…
Folk performance
Folk artist Jeff Warner will be performing in the auditorium of Cedar Ridge High School at 7 p.m. on Oct. 16. Warner performs his traditional American folk music in schools throughout America and abroad and uses his banjo, concertina and “pocket instruments,†such as spoons, bones and a Jew’s harp, to connect his audiences with…
Lottery funds returned
Gov. Bev Perdue announced on Friday that $37.2 million in lottery funds were being returned to school systems across the state. In February, the governor withheld money from the Public School Building Capital Fund to manage the state’s cash flow during the budget emergency for the fiscal year that ended June 30. Sen. Ellie Kinnaird said…
CHHS volunteer coordinator wanted
This year’s annual Parent Forum will be held at Chapel Hill High School. The forum is a parent education panel discussion presented in cooperation with all Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools. Each year, a relevant topic is selected and professional panelists are chosen. A volunteer CHHS parent is needed to work with the representatives from ECHHS and…
College fair
The annual CHCCS & Orange County High Schools College Fair will be Tuesday, Sept. 22 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Dean Smith Center on the UNC campus. The fair is targeted toward juniors and seniors, but anyone may attend.
Morehead-Cain scholoarships
It’s time for nominations for the Morehead-Cain Scholarship to UNC for high school students. The scholarship includes four years of tuition, room and board and summer programs. Students may be nominated by teachers or be self-nominees. Students should speak to their counselors about the nominating forms. To begin the application process or for more information, visit…
School board approves budget status
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education received an update on state and federal funding and formally approved a set of budget reductions at its meeting last week. The board’s next meeting will be Sept. 17 at Chapel Hill Town Hall.
Election forum
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro chapter of Partners for the Advancement of Gifted Education (PAGE) will sponsor a forum for candidates for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education on Tuesday, Sept. 29 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Chapel Hill Public Library. The public is invited. All six candidates for the school board have been invited…
Wallach leaves school board race, endorses Brownstein
Gary Wallach has officially taken his name out of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education race. He was running for a second time. Click more to read his entire statement.
District emphasizes H1N1 precautions
H1N1, or swine flu, began spreading across the U.S. last spring. It has remained a public health concern through the summer months, closing summer camps in the Triangle and across the nation. Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) has a pandemic influenza website linked to the district home page, chccs.k12.nc.us. The website contains links to official…
Parent volunteers wanted
Parents interested in volunteering at their child’s school or another local school an hour or two each week during the school day should visit chccs.k12.nc.us Positions include a school reading partner, ESL volunteer, writing coach or general classroom volunteer helping in any grade level with math, science, social studies, home economics, physical education, special needs,…
CHCCS SAT scores remain highest in NC
SAT scores remained unchanged overall in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools but continue to be the highest of any local education agency in North Carolina. The CHCCS composite of reading and math is 1179. The CHCCS composite of reading, math and writing is 1751. The district average for reading is 581, down two points from…
Ready for kickoff
Preps Preview: Football By Beth Mechum Staff Writer While a lot of high students spend their summers taking vacations or sleeping in, football players don’t have that luxury. Drills and weights in the early morning are followed by play-book sessions and scrimmages in the late evening. While that does leave a lot of time in…
Back to School
Beth Mechum Staff Writer By now, most students have met their teachers, scoped out their classrooms, and bought the perfect mixture of notebooks, pens and pencils — so there’s only one thing left to do: go to school. Alarm clocks are back in operation for both students and teachers next week, as schools all around…