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Yesterday’s announcement that Guilford County Schools will close on May 16 due to the teachers rally in Raleigh leaves Winston-Salem-Forsyth County Schools as the largest school system hold classes as…
All four municipal bonds on Greensboro’s ballot passed by strong margins in yesterday’s election. The total combined cost of the bonds is $126 million and will address low-income housing, transportation,…
Forsyth County residents will be voting next week on a set of bond issues totaling $430 million. The largest one is $350 million for local schools, but there are two…
Winston-Salem Journal ponders the possibility that a Winston-Salem-Forsyth County School could be part of new Achievement School District, in which five of the state’s lowest-performing schools will be converted to…
Earlier this week, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction published the final 2015-16 student counts for all district and charter schools. I used Average Daily Membership (ADM) data to determine…
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools officials are already weighing priorities for a $350 million school bond—should the bond pass. I guess it’s best to be prepared.
Forsyth County commissioners voted to move forward with a $430 million bond proposal that would go on the November ballot: (T)he board agreed to fund requests from the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County…
Looks like Winston-Salem-Forsyth County Schools has set its proposed $325 million bond— the “largest ever put forward by the school system,” according to the Winston-Salem Journal. (Compare that to Guilford…
Winston-Salem Journal reports Winston-Salem-Forsyth County school board member Jeannie Metcalf “abruptly resigned” during Tuesday night’s meeting and left immediately afterward. Metcalf said “both she and her husband have health issues…
Winston-Salem Journal –which broke the story of groundwater contamination beneath Hanes and Lowrance middle schools —- reports test results by a Raleigh-based environmental consulting firm show toxic vapors are not…
At last night’s meeting the Winston-Salem/Forsyth Board of Education voted to close Hanes and Lowrance middles schools following Winston-Salem Journal reports of contamination underneath the campus from a nearby manufacturing…
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools Superintendent Beverly Emory met with the Board of Commissioners and successfully secured a delay for its $41 million funding request as it figures out what to do…