Chapel Hill High School graduation will be held June 9 at 2 p.m. at the Dean Smith Center on the UNC campus. Graduating seniors must arrive by 1 p.m. the day of graduation and must attend rehearsal on June 8 at 8:30 a.m. at the Smith Center. East Chapel Hill High School graduation will be…
Category: Schools
McDougle students donate animals to needy families
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer Two sheep, four goats, one cow and two llamas, recently purchased by McDougle Elementary School, will soon find homes with needy families around the world. With more than $1,500 raised by McDougle Elementary students during the month of April, the animals will be donated to families through the Heifer International…
School briefs: 5/17/07
Board of Education member receives award from NAACP Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education member Elizabeth Carter received the NAACP Community Service Award at the Chapel Hill-Carrboro branch’s annual banquet on Saturday. Carter was honored at the banquet at the Carrboro Century Center for her service as an advocate for children during her 14 years on…
School board passes elementary redistricting plan
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer After more than a month of deliberation and revisions, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education last week voted 5-1 to approve a redistricting plan that will move nearly 500 students to a new elementary school when it opens in the fall of 2008. Immediately following the decision, the board also…
School briefs: 5/10/07
Local teacher named cultural ambassador Helen Crompton, a British international-exchange teacher at Carrboro Elementary School, has been named outstanding cultural ambassador by the Visiting International Faculty (VIF) Program. VIF is the largest international-exchange program linking teachers and U.S. schools, sponsoring about 900 international teachers in the state. Crompton teaches fifth grade at Carrboro Elementary, where…
Redistricting plan ready for review
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer This Thursday, for perhaps the final time this year, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education will revisit redistricting and consider a plan that would move nearly 500 students to a new elementary school when it opens in the fall of 2008. The board is redistricting in order to move students…
School budgets a concern
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer Chapel Hill-Carrboro and Orange County schools superintendents Neil Pedersen and Shirley Carraway warned that the school districts could see major cuts if they don’t receive funds requested in their annual budgets. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro and Orange County boards of education met with the Board of County Commissioners on Monday night…
School briefs: 5/3/07
Football coach to meet with prospective players The new football coach at Carrboro High School will visit with prospective players in Chapel Hill and Carrboro this week. Coach Jason Tudryn will meet with students in the Culbreth Middle School cafeteria on Thursday from 12:30-1:30 p.m. and with students in the McDougle Middle School cafeteria on…
School briefs: 4/26/07
Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools select teachers of the year Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools have selected their teachers of the year for 2007-08. They include: Carrboro Elementary – Deborah Lederer-Hughes, visual arts teacher; Ephesus Elementary – Debbie Hill, primary FOCAL teacher; Estes Hills Elementary – Lisa Creecy, kindergarten teacher; Frank Porter Graham Elementary – Kris Fox, art teacher;…
Redistricting in limbo
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer After hours of heated discussion, tears and pleas for equity across the district, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education postponed a decision on a redistricting plan and instead voted to rework one of the four proposed plans while rejecting the other three. The board is redistricting in order to move…
Mary Scroggs, 85, schools advocate
By Susan Dickson Staff Writer Longtime board of education member and outspoken schools advocate Mary Scroggs died last week. She was 85. Scroggs, who served on the school board from 1961 until 1977, is known for her work toward desegregation as well as for the construction of several schools at a time when schools were…
School briefs: 4/19/07
Carrboro High names football, basketball coaches The school board on Thursday approved the hiring of the men’s head basketball coach and head football coach at Carrboro High School, which opens in August. Jason Tudryn was named head football coach and exceptional education teacher. Tudryn comes to Carrboro from Gulf Coast High School in Naples, Fl.,…
Carraway to retire
School board to quickly start search for new superintendent By Kirk Ross Staff Writer HILLSBOROUGH–Orange County Schools Superintendent Shirley Carraway announced Monday that she will retire after four years on the job. Carraway, who was hired in 2003 after a lengthy and difficult search by the Orange County Schools Board of Education, made her plans…
School briefs: 4/11
First School proposed An addition to Seawell Elementary School that would house a proposed First School program could become the first of Carolina North. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education will look at plans for the addition during a work session at their Thursday meeting. The addition would provide space for 214 students, including a…
Tutoring 101: one-on-one
  Nicole Atwater, 10 years old, completes a writing assignment with her tutor. Photo by Allison Parker By Allison Parker Courtesy of the Carrboro Commons McDougle program helps UNC students learn as well Matthew Coplin, a 10-year-old fourth grader at McDougle Elementary School, says he wants to build things just like his father. “My dad…