The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education meets tonight (Thursday) at 7 at the Chapel Hill Town Hall on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. The board will consider in a work session a proposed change to student grading that would emphasize consistency and add a floor of 61 to the numeric grading scale. Opponents…
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Scroggs calls it a day
by Susan Dickson When Steve Scroggs began his first day as assistant superintendent for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, he sat outside his office and cried. After nearly 30 years working directly with children, Scroggs had made the transition to school administration, and found himself a little lonely. “It was the first time there wasn’t a…
School Brief: Vaccine rules
The North Carolina Commission for Public Health has made several changes to the rules regarding vaccination of school-aged children and college students. Effective January 1, 2008, vaccination rules include requirements for a booster dose of Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis) vaccine and a second dose of mumps vaccine. These rule changes will go into…
School Brief: Tech open house
The Middle College High School at Durham Technical Community College will hold open houses June 18 and 25 from 3 to 5 p.m. The Middle College program allows 11th- and 12th-grade students to earn honors-level high school credit while taking college courses. Students considering enrollment and their parents are encouraged to attend an open-house event.
School Brief: Math champs
The Rashkis Elementary School Math Olympiads Team has been named to the National Math Olympiad Honor Roll. Teams must be in the top 10 percent of all national and international elementary school teams to be named to the honor roll. More than 4,000 teams and 100,000 students nationally and about 1,800 teams and 35,000 students…
School Brief: LoFrese appointed
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education has appointed C. Todd LoFrese as the assistant superintendent for support services. LoFrese will replace Steve Scroggs, who will retire May 30. LoFrese has served as assistant superintendent of schools in Watertown, Conn. since 2003. Previously, he worked as a business manager for the Connecticut Trade Company…
School Brief: New principals
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education has named two new principals. The board appointed Minnie Goins as principal of Glenwood Elementary School. She has served as Glenwood’s interim principal since November, when former principal Amy Rickard was named principal at Morris Grove Elementary School. From 2004 to 2007, Goins served as Glenwood’s assistant principal. She…
School brief: Young leader
Cedar Ridge High School sophomore Noah Decker will attend the National Young Leaders Conference in Washington D.C. this summer. Students are selected to attend the conference based on their scholastic merit and demonstrated leadership abilities.
School brief: High school talk
The Carrboro High School Parent Teacher Student Association will hold a meeting on June 3 for rising ninth-grade parents to learn about the organization and various volunteer opportunities.
School Brief: Safe schools talk
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will host a Safe Schools Roundtable on June 3 at 7 p.m. in the Smith Middle School Auditorium. The event will provide an opportunity for district administrators to share information about school-safety initiatives and to hear from parents about their school-safety concerns.
School Brief: School concerts
Several high school theater and music groups will perform concerts over the next week: Carrboro High School will hold its spring theater showcase tonight (Thursday). The showcase will start at 7 p.m. in the Carrboro High Café Commons. The East Chapel Hill High School chorus will present its spring concert tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 in…
School Brief: Lawmaker school
Carrboro High School sophomore Lindsay Scott Barton has been selected to attend the Legislators’ School for Youth Leadership at Western Carolina University. The one-week residential program for selected rising eighth- through 11th-grade students utilizes the resources of Western Carolina University and the setting adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Students will participate in…
Students arrive at Carrboro High’s first-ever prom at the Century Center Saturday. Photo by Kirk Ross.
School Brief: Stone Soup
Kristin Lengowski’s Children’s Theatre will present Miss Spider’s Tea Party and Stone Soup at Carrboro Elementary School this Saturday and Sunday. The plays will be presented in the Carrboro Elementary auditorium at 3 p.m. both days. Tickets are $5.
School Brief: String musicians
Seventeen string students from Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools represented the district at the North Carolina Junior All-State Orchestra Concert on May 3 at North Moore High School. Chapel Hill-Carrboro All-State Orchestra students are: Chia Yen Sung, Forrest Li and Jonathan Dolan, Culbreth Middle School; Alice Huang, Cissy Yu, Sandhya Mahadevan, Tsai-Wei Cheng, Sirui Wang, Eric…