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Coronavirus and the billion-dollar GCS bond
Funny —of all the things to think during this difficult time, I was thinking about the proposed $1.6 billion Guilford County Schools bond, which was set to go on the…
Guilford County Board of Education Member District 8 election, 2016
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Bill would make Guilford County school board nonpartisan (again)
A bipartisan bill to make the Guilford County Board of Education nonpartisan was filed Tuesday, with Republican Reps. Jon Hardister and John Faircloth and Democrat Reps. Amos Quick and Ashton…
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Longtime GCS board chair resigns
Greensboro News & Record reports longtime Guilford County Board of Education chairman Alan Duncan is resigning effective June 30: In a letter to fellow school board members Wednesday, Duncan said…
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GCS board votes to rename Aycock Middle School
By a 9-2 margin, the Guilford County Board of Education voted Thursday night to rename Aycock Middle School. Board members Linda Wellborn and Rebecca Buffington were the ‘no’ votes. You’ve…
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Next in the sights: Aycock Middle School
Lede in N&R’s Guilford County school board meeting write-up is the choice of a Lenovo tablet to replace the Amplify tablet currently in use. But keep reading: In other business, Amos Quick,…
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Who will be the next GCS tablet vendor?
At tonight’s Guilford County Board of Education meeting,, the board will hear a presentation recommending a tablet vendor and device for the system’s PACE learning initiative. The presentation will take…
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Amplify will honor tablet contract, GCS says
N&R follows up High Point Enterprise report that Amplify — supplier for Guilford County Schools —is getting out of the tablet business. Amplify officials declined to comment, but GCS chief…
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GCS salaries flat
Rhino analysis of Guilford County Schools salaries: For one thing, the man at the top of the list, Guilford County School Superintendent Mo Green, has turned out to be a…
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Advice for prospective GCS board members….
…Make sure your act is together before submitting your name to fill a vacant seat: The Guilford County Board of Education plans to make a third attempt to pick a…
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New Carolina Journal Online features
Michael Lowrey reports for Carolina Journal Online on the N.C. Court of Appeals’ decision to overturn a lower court in a Union County school funding dispute. Sam Hieb’s Daily Journal…
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Gboro civil rights museum fires exec director
Well that was short—Lacy Ward Jr. is out as executive director of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. Ward was hired in April to —as WGHP paraphrases Martin Luther…
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Sales tax hike ‘rears ugly head’ in Guilford —again
Been hearing a lot of talk about a 1/4-cent sales tax hike for schools in Guilford County since Davidson County passed its sales tax hike and all— in its editorial…