As a result of rising food and fuel costs, meal prices will increase this year in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools cafeterias. Price increases do not affect students who receive free and reduced price meal benefits. Breakfast prices increased by five cents, to $1.10 for students and $1.55 for adults.
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School Brief: ESL welcome centers
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will open two special facilities this year to serve students and families for whom English is a second language. A Welcome Center will open on the Lincoln Center site in a mobile unit. The district’s English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) Coordinator and translator will move into this space, along with a secretary and…
School Brief: CHS band fundraiser
The Carrboro High School Band Boosters will hold a yard sale on August 23 to raise money for the school’s band program. The yard sale will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Southern Village Green on Market Street. The boosters will also sell raffle tickets for a chance to win prizes donated…
School Brief: Teacher laptops
In the next year, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district will put laptops in the hands of all its high school teachers. After Carrboro High opened last year with laptops and docking stations for each classroom, administrators saw unexpected benefits to teacher recruitment and teacher retention.
School Brief: Phoenix Academy move
Phoenix Academy will move into a new building in September. Phoenix Academy, the district’s alternative program, has been housed in the three mobile units on the Lincoln Center site. Phoenix Academy will move into the recently renovated pottery shop behind Lincoln Center.
District reinstates some axed CHS advanced courses
by Susan Dickson Staff Writer Several weeks after school officials announced that about a dozen advanced placement and honors courses would not be offered at Carrboro High School next year, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools officials say they will make changes to offer several of those courses. Carrboro High students and parents said that Carrboro High…
School PR award
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Community Relations Department recently received two awards from the National School Public Relations Association for publications produced for community members. The district’s Learning Skills: Scope and Sequence publication received the NSPRA’s 2008 Award of Excellence in the special purpose publication category. The district’s 2005-06 Annual Report earned the NSPRA’s Award…
School Brief: Football league
The Carrboro Recreation and Parks Department will be sponsoring a youth football program. Kids age five and six can compete in a flag football league. Ages 7-12 will be grouped in tackle leagues. Registration is now being accepted at the Recreation Department at 100 N. Greensboro St. in the Century Center. Hours are weekdays 8:30…
Carrboro High School parents want answers
by Susan Dickson Staff Writer Carrboro High School teachers and parents say they don’t understand Superintendent Neil Pedersen’s recent decision to replace Principal Jeff Thomas and that district administrators owe them more of an explanation. The district announced June 18 that Thomas has been reassigned to the district’s central office and that Rodney Trice, the…
Pedersen says surveys, complaints led to decision to replace Carrboro principal
by Susan Dickson Staff Writer Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Superintendent Neil Pedersen said on Wednesday his recent decision to replace Jeff Thomas as principal of Carrboro High School was based on unsolicited feedback from staff and parents, as well as the results of surveys that indicated both students and teachers were unhappy with their experiences…
Graduation
by Jordan Timpy Staff Writer The Dean Dome was rocking Saturday – for Tigers and Wildcats rather than Tar Heels – as Chapel Hill and East Chapel Hill high held graduation ceremonies. Nearly 400 anxious-looking CHHS students dressed in caps and gowns lined the corridors of the Smith Center before their afternoon ceremony began. Sporadic…
Carrboro High changes principals
by Susan Dickson Staff Writer Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools has announced that Carrboro High School Principal Jeff Thomas has been reassigned to the district’s central office and that Rodney Trice, the district’s director of curriculum and instruction, will serve as interim principal. District officials wrote in an email to The Citizen that Thomas had one…
Carrboro High changes principals
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools has announced that Carrboro High School Principal Jeff Thomas has been reassigned to the district’s central office. A district press release did not say why Thomas was reassigned, or what position he will fill at the central office. Thomas has served as principal of Carrboro High for two years, and opened…
Proposed grade changes draw fire
by Susan Dickson Staff Writer The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education is considering changes to grading policies that would make 61 the lowest score a student could receive and eliminate zeros. The school board discussed the possible policy revisions last week in a work session. A number of teachers and parents, however, have…
School Brief: LAX class
Carrboro High School will hold a Men’s Lacrosse Academy July 12-18. The camp is aimed at giving skills instruction during an intensive two hours of play every evening for seven days. The camp will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. each day at the Carrboro High School practice field.