Durham Public Schools is $7 million over budget, the superintendent announced last night in a news release. The shortfall comes on the heels of a…
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Rhiannon Camarillo left the polls in November feeling confident she had done everything right. She had gathered all the proper materials, voted early, and even…
The Durham school board has scrapped the idea of “express stops” as a solution to the district’s school bus crisis. However, some families living near…
Durham schools will stop providing bus service within one mile of 21 elementary schools, and will instead require most parents living within those “family responsibility…
Motown classics drifted down Lakewood Elementary’s yellow, cinder-block hallways from the school’s gymnasium, alive with the shrieks and screams of third graders. In the middle…
The message went out over a neighborhood listserv this fall with an unusual request: a plea for native tree seeds. “These seeds will be grown…
Durham Public Schools announced today that it will ask parents to continue transporting their children to school one day per week through Friday, Jan. 17. …
On a Sunday morning this fall, Kristen Sommerfeld rang a small metal bell. Clad in overalls and a sleeve of botanic tattoos, she stood among…
Vanessa Hagerbaumer’s experience working from home in the Triangle is not only about what she does; it’s about what she sees. During a recent phone…
It looks pretty much like any other classroom. School desks are pushed together to create a hollow rectangle. The chairs are small and stiff, and…