The Durham County commissioners’ chambers on Tuesday evening was a sea of red. Nearly everyone in the audience wore a Durham Association of Educators T-shirt…
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Sign-language interpreters in the Durham schools demanded better pay during a school board meeting on Thursday. Meanwhile, dozens of Durham Association of Educators members and…
At a school board meeting in early March, a group of administrators shared updates on Growing Together, a reassignment plan going into effect in elementary…
Durham County Manager Kimberly Sowell presented a recommended $955 million budget to county commissioners on Monday. And while the budget includes $201 million for Durham…
Durham school leaders will catalogue the district’s most pressing building maintenance needs and spend more than $2 million in federal funds for HVAC and other…
When Theresa Dowell Blackinton enrolled her kindergartener at Club Boulevard Elementary, she worried about the maintenance of the school’s nearly 75-year-old campus. School administration assured…
After a tumultuous few months, the Durham school board on Thursday approved a more than $27 million increase in its budget request for the upcoming…
After months of uncertainty about the school system’s payroll and budget, the public had a chance to speak on interim superintendent Catty Moore’s proposed budget…
Story by Sofie Buckminster; Photos by Kulsoom Rizavi On Feb. 15, 14 union members faced the Durham Board of Education and their lawyers. The two…
As the Durham school board launches its search for a new permanent superintendent, a consultant advising the search urged the board to move swiftly and…