The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools board held a public-comment-heavy meeting where dozens of parents, teachers and students urged the board to preserve dual-language and other programs; the board voted 4–3 to direct staff to study possible closure of Sewell, Glenwood and Ephesus and adopted amended study criteria; the superintendent presented a budget request showing a roughly $3.6–3.7M continuation gap with multiple scenarios for deeper cuts.