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April 13, 2012

High Point makes offer on Shadybrook Road site

The city of High Point made an offer this week to Guilford County Schools to buy roughly 10 acres on Shadybrook Road for $294,300, the current tax value of the property. Read More

New report hints at level of effectiveness of Mission Possible program

A March report by a local researcher gives an idea of where things stand with Guilford County Schools' 5-year-old teacher incentive program, called Mission Possible. Read More

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GCS submits draft rezoning request for airport area land

Guilford County Schools submitted a draft rezoning application on Wednesday for land it wants to purchase in Triad Business Park, according to Jeff Hatling, community development director with the town of Kernersville. This is for the airport area high sc... Read More

April 12, 2012

200 folks turn out to hear legal scholar john powell discuss implicit bias

Government and civic leaders took another step toward addressing racial disparities in the community by bringing back john a. powell, an internationally known legal scholar and expert on implicit bias, civil rights and racial identity. He is currently dir... Read More

April 2, 2012

Will GCS feel the financial pain in 2012-13?

Last time I heard, Guilford County Schools was expecting a $12 million budget hole for 2012-13. Read More

March 12, 2012

School construction costs stay high in North Carolina

This month, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction finally posted an updated list of new school construction in the state, after a six-month hiatus. View the list here by clicking on "construction costs" on the left and then "cost of rec... Read More

March 2, 2012

Checking in with the 'school improvement grant' schools

I spent the past week checking up on Wiley Elementary, one of the three Guilford schools that has received federal school improvement grants from the U.S. Department of Education. A story should run in Saturday's paper. Read More

March 1, 2012

Results from GCS employee climate survey are out

Readers might not be aware that I was out of the office for two weeks in February to care for a child after surgery and I didn't return until last week. Read More