North Carolina / School Districts / Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education voted unanimously to approve the district’s Academically and Intellectually Gifted plan for 2025–2028 after staff outlined state-driven changes and board members debated identification methods and LEAP’s scope.
North Carolina / School Districts / Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
Multiple parents, students and district employees told the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education that Carrboro High School staff feel unsafe raising concerns and that special-education programs and classroom supports have been cut; speakers sought an outside mediator and clearer district action.
North Carolina / School Districts / Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
The board approved two food-service contracts with Compass Group (Chartwells), including summer feeding at five sites with a reading activity and a final contract extension for the 2025–26 school year that includes increases to paid meal prices.
North Carolina / School Districts / Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
District special-education leaders presented preliminary results from a state comprehensive review, staffing and child-count data and asked the board for direction on next steps; trustees requested more detailed budget, staffing and discipline/attendance analyses and discussed community engagement.
North Carolina / School Districts / Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
District staff and high-school leaders reported on multi-school pilots of an 80-minute block schedule, noting instructional benefits and concerns about student fatigue, attendance, AP testing and transportation for cross-enrollment; principals described positive student response and plans for summer and fall implementation.
North Carolina / School Districts / Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
District staff presented a longitudinal cohort analysis of EOG and BOG results showing mixed year‑to‑year trends and highlighting gaps for multilingual learners and in middle‑school math.
North Carolina / School Districts / Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board read and affirmed a proclamation recognizing May 2025 as Mental Health Awareness Month and thanked school-based mental health staff and community partners for support and outreach activities.
North Carolina / School Districts / Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
Pre‑K staff reported 21 classrooms with capacity for about 294 students, described funding sources and proposed a phased tuition increase from $1,000 to $1,175 and later to $1,350 monthly, and outlined steps to license additional school spaces and hire separate‑setting teachers.
North Carolina / School Districts / Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
At a Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board meeting, more than a dozen speakers — including educators, health professionals, parents and a student — urged the district to reduce classroom screen time, scrutinize educational technology and strengthen student data protections.
North Carolina / School Districts / Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
Teacher Jenny Hoffman told the board that Latin and other elective courses are being cut or understaffed and asked the district for enrollment transparency and teacher recruitment to preserve award-winning electives.