December 29, 2008
Businesses and institutions interested in composting organic waste from their facilities can learn more about the process at a seminar to be held in Greensboro in February. The N.C. Composting Council's seminar will focus on compostable products such as...
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January 31, 2012
HIGH POINT — Aspiring engineer Mrwan Othman nearly gave up on the Andrews Aviation Academy. “I was going to drop off,” said Othman, a junior from Jamestown. “I was going to go back to Ragsdale (High) because the program was s...
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January 20, 2012
GREENSBORO — Blame district leadership, poor hiring practices or a stronger economy. Whatever the cause, principal turnover in Guilford County Schools was once alarming.Sixty-one percent of principals led their schools for a year or less from 2006 t...
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January 16, 2012
GREENSBORO — In Rabbi Harry Sky’s heyday, he marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., preached from Jewish and Christian pulpits about social equality, and pushed for fair hiring and housing practices. The 87-year-old civil rights veteran...
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December 26, 2011
GREENSBORO — Guilford County Schools is rising in the ranks of urban school systems across the country, according to a national research group. But leaders here have work to do before Guilford can be considered one of the best at improving student p...
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December 13, 2011
GREENSBORO -- Guilford County Register of Deeds Jeff Thigpen and 10 other people filed a lawsuit last week that challenges a requirement that marrying couples in North Carolina obtain a state-issued license.
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December 12, 2011
HIGH POINT — People who want to remember the late Richard "Ricky" Suttles can contribute to a scholarship created in his memory.
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GREENSBORO — Carol Christian still wore her U.S. Air Force fatigues when she strolled into the Erwin Montessori cafeteria with her third-grade son, Garrett Jackson.She commutes daily from Greensboro to Fayetteville, but didn’t want her son to...
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November 30, 2011
GREENSBORO — Undeterred, leaders for Guilford County Schools will seek county approval to purchase land in the Triad Business Park in Kernersville for a new high school. The Board of Commissioners, which must approve land purchases for new schools......
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November 15, 2011
Alicia Minkins has waited years to open a charter school that empowers students to start businesses and solve problems in their community.A previous cap on such schools stood in the way, she said. Now, the board of directors for the proposed Global Leader...
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November 9, 2011
GREENSBORO -- The Guilford Education Alliance released on Wednesday a report that provides a comprehensive overview of local public schools. The 5th annual "Education Matters" provides comparative academic, employment and budgetary data on Guilf...
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November 7, 2011
GREENSBORO — Gone are the tents, blankets and lawn chairs. The donated food, dishes and propane burners. The white boards, extension cords and protest signs. One of the most visible expressions of Occupy Greensboro ended Sunday as members packed up...
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November 3, 2011
The state Board of Education has approved a plan to award bonus pay to staff at some schools that achieved higher than expected growth on state exams in 2010-11.
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People say imitation is the best form of flattery.A group of parents was so pleased by their children’s experiences at Greensboro Academy that they want to open a similar charter school in Guilford County next year.The proposed Cornerstone Charter A...
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November 2, 2011
HIGH POINT — Southwest High School students Andre Elliott and Cory Payne already bowl at Tar Heel Lanes every Saturday and at least once a week as part of a youth league. Yet they couldn’t pass up another opportunity to perfect their technique...
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October 29, 2011
GREENSBORO — Guilford County Schools officials again face criticism from school board members for delays in bond-funded construction projects.
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October 23, 2011
In Kim Forbes’ classroom — behind the boomerang-shaped desks, power tools, computers, wind tunnel and slew of competition trophies — is a case full of technology textbooks. Students rarely open them.
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October 20, 2011
GREENSBORO — It almost seemed silly — parents dropping off their children a block or two from Lindley Elementary and letting them walk the rest of the way.But those short walks were enough to remind families of the importance of slowing down......
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October 11, 2011
GREENSBORO -- Guilford County Schools Superintendent Maurice "Mo" Green received a contract extension through 2015, but declined a pay raise at tonight's school board meeting.
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GREENSBORO — Capt. William Caviness would chide his fellow firefighters: “Do you want to be pretty good? Or the best?”
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October 9, 2011
GREENSBORO — Local educators believe it makes little sense to kick students out of class for days at a time for ignoring a teacher’s command or bullying a classmate.
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September 30, 2011
GREENSBORO — This summer, Guilford County Schools celebrated the fact that none of its schools ended up on the state’s low-performing list for the 2010-11 academic year. But 10 schools had low enough rates of student achievement to warrant ano...
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September 25, 2011
Tristan Rodriguez was lucky. He had to wait less than a year to gain admission to Greensboro Academy, one of Guilford County’s oldest charter schools. His parents, Maria Agosto and Enrique Rodriguez, applied for a spot there because they believed Tr...
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HIGH POINT — Officials believe Guilford County Schools needs to spend as much as $1.2 billion over the next decade to upgrade existing schools and accommodate future enrollment growth.
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September 16, 2011
GREENSBORO — University researchers hope equipping local middle-schoolers with pulse meters, pedometers and other devices will encourage students to maintain fitness plans long after completing health and physical education classes.
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