February 9, 2010
GREENSBORO — UNCG is launching a need-based scholarship program that will help some low-income students graduate with little or no debt.The first students receiving aid through the UNCG Guarantee will enter school this fall. The program was created...
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EDEN — Fewer students dropped out of Rockingham County’s four high schools in 2008-09 than in any year during the past decade, according to preliminary figures. Members of the Board of Education learned Monday that 217 students, or 4.78...
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February 8, 2010
GREENSBORO — Guilford County Schools will be open Feb. 19 to make up for being closed Friday.Here is the latest list of make-up days as announced by the district today: Schools on the traditional calendar: Feb. 18, Feb. 19, April 23......
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GREENSBORO — School officials are proposing a middle school program with longer days and a longer school year as a way to close the achievement gap. They also want to house the program in the former Allen Jay Middle School. Their proposal goe...
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GIBSONVILLE — Stepping into the classroom, the students at Gibsonville Elementary School tried to imagine themselves inside a five-and-dime store in 1960. “Hi, welcome to Woolworth’s,” teacher Brandy Jo Brehm said. Students...
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February 6, 2010
GREENSBORO — The number of fires reported at Guilford County Schools has increased in recent years, with more set at Eastern Guilford High than at any other school, according to the district. Fire officials attribute much of the increase to school o...
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February 5, 2010
HIGH POINT (MCT) — Immaculate Heart of Mary will invest $10 million in a new education center at the Catholic church in north High Point. Named the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Life & Mark and Rena Norcross Education Center, the facility will...
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GREENSBORO — The national space program has awarded Greensboro and Jamestown schools a nearly $1 million grant. Guilford County Schools announced Friday its Central Region won a two-year grant from NASA that will help middle and high school teachers...
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GREENSBORO — Area school systems are closing or opening late today because of slick roads caused by precipitation Thursday night and this morning. All weekend activities involving Guilford County Schools facilities have been canceled. The district's...
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February 3, 2010
Guilford County Schools will open on a two-hour delay on Thursday. All after-school activities will take place as scheduled. The system had closed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday due to the snow. Winston-Salem/Forsyth County, Randolph County and Alamance-Bu...
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GREENSBORO — GTCC has been awarded the national Leah Meyer Austin Institutional Leadership Award for the school’s initiative to help students from low-income families and students of color succeed. The award was presented Tuesday during the an...
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ELON — Elon University says it will restore a two-room schoolhouse on the northern edge of its campus that dates to before the Civil War.The university said an Alamance County family has donated to Elon a quarter of an acre near Rhodes Stadium...
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GREENSBORO — UNCG has a contingency plan to house students once renovation of the Quad residence halls starts next year — leasing existing apartments. During a committee meeting Tuesday morning, members of UNCG’s board of trustees discus...
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February 2, 2010
Because of inclement weather, Guilford County Schools will be closed on Wednesday for students. It will be an optional teacher workday. All central offices will operate on a regular schedule. All after-school activities are canceled. Guilford County Schoo...
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GREENSBORO — Guilford County commissioners say they aren’t looking for places to cut the school district’s budget, but they want a closer accounting of its budget. A budget committee made up of school board members and commissioners met...
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February 1, 2010
OAK RIDGE – Tours and information sessions for the reopening of Oak Ridge Elementary School have been set for this Saturday. The times are as follows: Pre-K and Kindergarten from 9 to 9:45 a.m. First grade from 10 to 10:45 a.m. Second grade from 11...
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WENTWORTH — Rockingham Community College inched closer Monday to raising enough money for the proposed McMichael Civic Center after receiving a $250,000 check from the federal government. Icy roads and canceled classes didn’t stop a handful of...
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ELON — Elon University said it got $1 million to support the Elon Academy, a university-run college access program for high school students in Alamance County.The gift comes from Douglas G. and Edna Truitt Noiles of New Canaan, Conn. Edna Noiles is...
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January 31, 2010
GREENSBORO -- Guilford County Schools are closed Monday, a school spokeswoman said today.Monday is an optional teacher workday. Central offices will operate on a normal schedule.
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January 30, 2010
GREENSBORO — College endowments suffered drastic drops last fiscal year, but that came as no surprise to leaders at area institutions. “Because of the market in general, we fell by about the same amount as everybody else did,” said Jill...
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January 29, 2010
GREENSBORO — Ask Jeff Harris if it’s a darned-if-you-do, darned-if-you-don’t decision to delay the opening of school or dismiss early because of the threat of winter weather, and you’re likely to get a definitive “Ha!&rdquo......
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GREENSBORO — Parents and community members continue to hammer home with school officials their support for law enforcement officers in schools.Several people told the Guilford County Board of Education on Thursday night that teachers and principals...
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Due to inclement weather, Guilford County Schools will close two hours early on Friday.All after-school activities are canceled. Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools will hold a regular school day. But that system also has canceled all of tonight's a...
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January 28, 2010
OAK RIDGE -- An open house at Oak Ridge Elementary for parents and community members scheduled for this weekend is postponed. The open house was planned for Sunday but school district officials announced today they are postponing the event until Saturday......
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GREENSBORO — Page High School was evacuated Thursday afternoon after a fire in a bathroom trash can.No injuries were reported. The school was evacuated about 2 p.m. due to the amount of smoke coming from the first-floor bathroom.The fire was extingu...
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