July 3, 2009
GREENSBORO — The strings will continue to sing at Weaver Academy, thanks to a nearly $14,000 allocation by the Guilford County Schools administration. A part-time employee will teach the strings program classes. Parents of the program’s 12 stu...
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GREENSBORO — When UNCG ended its five-year Student First Campaign fund drive Tuesday, the final tally was more than $115 million — well beyond its goal. “We were counting every penny,” said Patricia Stewart, the school’s vice...
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July 2, 2009
RALEIGH — N.C. State's top official said the school doesn't have the money to pay a settlement to former first lady Mary Easley, who is appealing her contract termination.Interim Chancellor Jim Woodward also said Mary Easley certainly knew that her...
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July 1, 2009
Two current staff members have been named to interim leadership positions in Guilford County Schools. Gwen Willis is the interim chief student services officer, and Shirley Morrison is the interim chief human resources officer. Both positions are effectiv...
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RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina State University official says new donations are down percent from last year, but can't say if it is because of the Mary Easley job controversy or the slumping economy.The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Wedne...
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COLFAX — He starts off sidesaddle, steadying his burly frame on the horse’s back. It takes a few tries, but Jeff Weathers has the motion down, swinging his leg over the horse’s head and getting comfortable in the saddle. A few years ago......
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GREENSBORO — Plans to redevelop the South Elm Street district downtown are gaining momentum now that private and public groups are working to build a major downtown hotel and a central office for the school system. Officials have confirmed that a Me...
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GREENSBORO — Elon University’s service learning programs are being recognized with a national award. The school is one of five receiving the Washington Center’s inaugural Higher Education Civic Engagement Award. The national nonprofit or...
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June 30, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM (MCT) — Winston-Salem State University is laying off 16 people and eliminating 30 vacant positions as part of a restructuring plan that will cut between $7 million and $9 million from its current budget, school officials said Monday. E...
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June 28, 2009
Editor's Note: Because of incorrect information provided to the News & Record, this article misreported who pays the bill for a personal trainer for the wife of Greensboro College President Craven Williams. Williams personally reimburses Gre...
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The pastor became the principal and the people in the pews who could read taught the others at St. James Presbyterian Church in the early 1900s. In this story lies Greensboro’s quintessential tale of the role of the black church in helping educate t...
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June 27, 2009
Laura’s Big Give is a fraction of Oprah’s. Actually, the money for these charitable projects comes from the coins lining the pockets of 24 students taking Guilford College instructor Laura Parrish’s intense weeklong class on justice and...
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GREENSBORO — The strains of the cello and violin may fall silent at the Weaver Academy this fall as the state budget crisis claims yet another academic victim. Parents of students in the school’s strings program learned this week that the prog...
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June 26, 2009
GREENSBORO — There have been two confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu at N.C. A&T, according to the university. Both people are in isolation and are being treated, the university stated on its Web site. Further details about the people were not discl...
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GREENSBORO -- Scandal-plagued Northern Guilford has hired a new athletics director and renewed the contract of football coach Johnny Roscoe, school officials said. Chapel Hill High School athletics director Ronnie Hayes was hired Thursday night for the sa...
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At least one member of the Guilford County Board of Education wanted to reconsider hanging on to Braxton Craven Elementary School. But in the end, the board voted for a second time Thursday night not to make Craven available for preschool nonprofit, Guilf...
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June 25, 2009
GREENSBORO – Guilford County Schools announced additional principal assignments for the 2009-10 school year Thursday. Rydell Harrison, who was assistant principal at Jackson Middle, will be the principal at Sternberger Elementary. Harrison has worke...
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RALEIGH (AP) — The Legislature has given its final approval to changes in North Carolina's sex education curriculum in public schools for young teenagers. The House narrowly agreed Thursday to the Senate version of the bill, which explains how all s...
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GREENSBORO — Guilford County Schools is working to address employee complaints about environmental health issues at Oak Ridge Elementary School, system officials said Thursday. The Department of Labor notified the district several days ago that it h...
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GREENSBORO — Guilford County students might need to carry more pocket change when they return to class if they’re going to keep going through the school cafeteria line. The Board of Education will consider increasing school lunch prices by 50...
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June 24, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina Senate has rejected a bill that would require school administrators to tell parents their child could be paddled at school and allow adults to opt out of corporal punishment. The Senate voted 25-21 on Wednesday agai...
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DURHAM — Coach K remains Duke's highest-paid employee. The university's most recent IRS documents were obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. They show that Duke paid men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski more than $3.6 million during the fisc...
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RALEIGH (AP) — E-mails that were sent or received during the months leading up to former first lady Mary Easley's hiring were deleted from the account of former Chancellor James Oblinger, attorneys for N.C. State said Wednesday. The university's law...
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GREENSBORO — More change at Northern Guilford High School — this time in the classroom — is continuing to vex parents and students. Parents learned this week the school will move from a seven-period day to six this fall for the first tim...
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GREENSBORO — The N.C. A&T community gathered Tuesday evening around the campus statue of the A&T Four to celebrate their new chancellor, Harold Martin. That statue commemorates one of the proudest moments in the school’s history......
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