September 25, 2009
GREENSBORO — The issue of Tasers in schools got a long going over during Thursday’s school board meeting, with several people speaking passionately about the issue. “I don’t feel comfortable with the police policing themselves,&rdq...
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GREENSBORO — This year, amidst economic turmoil that threatens colleges of all sizes, one of the city’s smallest appears to be thriving. While many campuses face layoffs and halted projects, Bennett College for Women saw its accreditation reaf...
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GREENSBORO — A local education advocacy group says Guilford County Schools is not doing enough to reach academically gifted students. The Guilford Education Alliance released a report Thursday that outlines how students who are academica...
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GREENSBORO -- Maurice “Mo” Green will at least have the option to stay around for another three years. The school board voted unanimously Friday morning to extend the superintendent's contract one year, meaning Green's contract is good through...
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September 24, 2009
GREENSBORO — UNCG will introduce its new athletics director Friday.Kimberly S. Record will replace Nelson Bobb, who resigned June 30.Record has been a consultant with International Sports Properties for the past year after working for 13 years in at...
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GREENSBORO — Last year, more than 1,000 sixth-graders — roughly one of every five countywide — failed to provide proof of a key vaccination by the day of the deadline, and hundreds found themselves turned away from school.This year went...
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WINSTON-SALEM (MCT) — A teacher's assistant and assistant football coach at Atkins High School was suspended with pay Wednesday after police said that he punched and kicked a teenager who he believed had broken into his house.Donald Lamont Cart...
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GREENSBORO — Police in Greensboro schools are armed with Tasers for the first time, but school officials were slow to find out. Tony Scales, the school system’s safety administrator, only learned of the change Wednesday. No official notice fro...
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GREENSBORO — Michael Cook likes his masonry class at Grimsley High because, as he puts it, he doesn’t have to do any work. He says that as he stands next to an elaborate brick wall about 4 feet tall. He spent several days building it. Nathanie...
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GREENSBORO — Nearly 400 people gathered on the lawn of a Guilford College residence hall Wednesday night, holding white candles and proclaiming hatred had no place on campus. “The whole purpose of this vigil was to show that among Guilford&rs...
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September 23, 2009
What: Guilford County Board of Education meeting When: 6 p.m. Thursday Where: Boardroom of the administrative office, 712 N. Eugene St., Greensboro On TV: Guilford County Board of Education meetings are broadcast live on GCS Cable Channel 2. Replays are a...
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September 22, 2009
STOKESDALE — Things have gone hog wild at Stokesdale Elementary School this week. The students have been well-behaved — it’s the pigs that have caused problems. Five pigs have been snorting around the school campus this week, forcing tea...
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MCLEANSVILLE — The students shrieked with joy as the “mad scientist” created wind, slime and fog on stage. They desperately stretched their hands into the air, hoping to be volunteers in magic tricks. And when the scientist announced, &l...
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CHAPEL HILL (AP) — Some retired professors from UNC-Chapel Hill say they've received little response to their offer to teach for free to help with budget cuts.Retired professor Andrew Dobelstein said members of the UNC-CH Retired Faculty Association...
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GREENSBORO — When UNCG released its new list of prospective layoffs last week, it wasn’t the number that was shocking. The surprise was how many of the eliminated positions began with “director,” “associate provost” or...
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CHAPEL HILL — The UNC-Chapel Hill Greek Judicial Board has placed the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, whose president was shot and killed by an Archdale officer in August, on one-year social probation. The probation, ending the final day of exams Ma...
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What? Students without proof of Tdap vaccination will not be allowed to attend classes beginning Thursday. Parents who cite religious beliefs for not vaccinating their child can gain an exception. Why? Tdap inoculates against tetanus, diphtheria and pertu...
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September 21, 2009
GREENSBORO — Beginning Thursday sixth grade students who do not have vaccination information on file will not be allowed to attend school.State law requires every sixth-grader entering school after Aug. 1, or any student who turned 12 on or after th...
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September 20, 2009
GREENSBORO — Turning low-performing schools around is going to take leadership, scrutiny and likely some financial incentives, school officials say. The Guilford County Board of Education met Saturday for its annual fall planning retreat. Superinten...
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September 19, 2009
Greensboro College has a new interim president, following a spring and summer of financial uncertainty that brought the historic liberal arts school to the brink of bankruptcy. C. Brent DeVore, 68, who retired two months ago from a long career as presiden...
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September 18, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina's community college system voted today to admit illegal immigrants at its campuses next year, a move unlikely to bring an immediate surge in undocumented students given a requirement that they pay higher tuition. The St...
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GREENSBORO — Some school board members are calling for closer scrutiny of police officers in schools after a deputy used a Taser on a 15-year-old student. “I don’t feel comfortable at all with law enforcement policing themselves,&rdquo......
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EDEN — The Holmes Middle School students who climbed aboard the Choice Bus on Thursday morning heard what it was like to be in prison. “Everything is taken away — video games, cell phones, MP3 players,” Lynn Smelley, program direct...
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September 17, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's community colleges would return to enrolling illegal immigrants next spring under a proposal expected to come before State Board of Community Colleges on Friday.The change won unanimous approval Thursday in the...
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RALEIGH — Students who cannot prove they’re legal citizens would be able to take courses at community colleges under a policy the State Board of Community Colleges is poised to adopt later this week. Even though the proposal would require undo...
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