Associate Superintendent Jennifer Reed explained that the revisions would change Monday, March 17 from an optional teacher workday to an early dismissal day and adjust Tuesday, April 1 and Friday, May 23 from early dismissal days to full school days.
The poet and essayist will offer a reading, discussion and Q&A to benefit the Asheville City Schools Foundation on Feb. 27.
he controversy began last year when local members of the Moms for Liberty, a political organization that advocates against school curricula that mention LGBTQ rights, critical race theory and other issues, took issue with some titles available to students and educations in the 40,000 book online library.
Asheville’s Henry Logan started the integration of college basketball in the South when he went to Western Carolina College in 1964. A new book looks at the legacy of the pioneering player.
“This is a really big deal to me, because we lost 22 (days) in that first semester, and we’re only off by about five percentage points,” said Molly Peeples, early literacy specialist for ACS. “This tells me that our teachers are working incredibly hard to make up these gaps.”
Asheville City Board of Education weighs in on report that concludes that merging with Buncombe County Schools wouldn’t improve student outcomes or save month. The board does sign on for more collaboration though.
County commissioners agree to cut the county budget 4% across the board and including the two school districts despite impassioned pleas not to during public comment at their Jan. 21 meeting.
“Based on the literature review, constituent input, local environmental factors, the current operations and academic outcomes of each school system, Prismatic does not recommend consolidation of ACS and BCS,” concluded a report from Charlotte-based education consultants Prismatic Services.
The new youth hip-hop writing program incorporates playfulness, performance and the classic rite-of-passage journey with a focus on healing.
What lessons have local teachers taken away from Tropical Storm Helene, and how have they incorporated these insights into their classrooms? Xpress finds out.
Mandated by the N.C. General Assembly in 2023, Buncombe County hired Charlotte-based Prismatic Services in March to analyze the feasibility of merging the county’s two public school districts based on finances, student enrollment, policies, procedures, student well-being, personnel, operations and facilities.
Helene impacted a vital part of infrastructure: child care. Providers and families share their work-arounds and what’s needed to reinforce an already fragile system.
Grey Edens, a Christ School senior from Charlotte, recently self-published a history of the Arden school based on a year of research.
The Asheville City Board of Education voted 4-2 at its Dec. 9 meeting to provide bonuses to employees who volunteered in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Helene.
A study to determine the feasibility of the consolidation of Buncombe County’s two public school districts continues on schedule despite Tropical Storm Helene.
Unsure of exactly how much it would cost, the Asheville City Board of Education voted 7-0 Nov. 12 to table a decision on bonus payment for nearly 200 district staff members who volunteered their time in the immediate aftermath of Tropical Storm Helene.
“The bottom line is that education influences everyone and everything,” says Brianne Hudak, founder and head of school at Journeys School for the Gifted and Talented.
All 45 of the district’s schools now have nonpotable water, power and internet service, BCS Superintendent Rob Jackson told the Buncombe County Board of Education at an emergency meeting Oct. 18.
Superintendent Maggie Fehrman told the Asheville City Board of Education at its meeting Oct. 14 that she still wants to explore drilling wells to increase the district’s resiliency, but is shifting her focus to obtaining enough drinking water to reopen schools by Monday, Oct. 28.
Schools remain closed in Western North Carolina’s largest school district as officials scramble to get portable toilets and hand-washing stations shipped to Buncombe County Schools’ 45 campuses.
Asheville City Schools Superintendent Maggie Fehrman said the district is aiming to reopen its schools to students by Monday, Oct. 28.
