By Kevin Roche This is a chart that was put together based on cases reported for various types of schooling. Thanks to Twitter. You can see that in-person has the lowest rate, closely followed by remote, and hybrid is the…
School Case Chart
Day: September 26, 2020
October mulch sales at Chatham County Solid Waste & Recycling
Pittsboro, NC – Chatham County Solid Waste & Recycling will have mulch sales during the month of October. Mulch sales will take place on Saturdays and Wednesdays in October at the Solid Waste & Recycling Main Facility located at 28…
CCCC graduate making a difference as public health educator
Pittsboro, NC – It didn’t take Central Carolina Community College graduate Dorothy Rawleigh long to establish herself as one of the state’s top public health educators, though it was hardly a lifelong goal. In fact, when she started to chart…
Chatham County is among places with the highest incomes in North Carolina
A recent analysis by financial technology company SmartAsset found the places in North Carolina where people earn the most money. The analysis was one of the factors in a study measuring the places in North Carolina with the most purchasing…
Chatham County Council on Aging receives BAND-NC grant
Pittsboro, NC – The Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) at NC State University recently announced its second round of grant recipients for Building a New Digital Economy in NC (BAND-NC). Chatham County was selected as one of the additional ten…
District school closings boost homeschooling in NC
by Raleigh, NC – North Carolina is already the homeschooling capital of the United States. Now the attraction of this education option is soaring higher than ever — thanks not to the actions of its proponents but to the antics…
Chatham County school board convenes special session on Sept. 29
Pittsboro, NC — The Chatham County Board of Education will convene a special session September 29, 2020, to consider resuming in-person instruction for specific student populations, such as exceptional children in self-contained classrooms and students in preschool. Board members will consider resuming…
Additional $40 Million COVID-19 relief available for small NC businesses
Raleigh, NC – Some North Carolina small businesses that have experienced extraordinary disruption to their operations due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic may benefit from a $40 million relief program to help offset fixed costs like rent, mortgage interests and…
NCAE wants teachers to lobby against reopening elementary schools
By Lindsay Marchello Raleigh, NC – A group of teachers is prioritizing itself over students, experts say of recent tactics from the N.C. Association of Educators. About half of North Carolina’s school districts are closed for in-person instruction, while the…