UNC Lands Another In-State Four-Star in Gabe Stephens
Four-star athlete Gabe Stephens verbally committed to North Carolina on Friday, he told Inside Carolina, less than a week after attending a Heels’ junior day. He’s the third in-state four-star prospect to pledge to the Heels in the 2021 class. Stephens, a 6-foot-3, 195-pounder from Mount Holly (N.C.) Mountain Island Charter School, selected the Tar Heels over […]
State board votes to renew 18 NC charter schools, close one school
The State Board of Education voted Thursday to renew 18 North Carolina charter schools and close one charter school, Ignite Innovation Academy in Greenville. Ignite Innovation Academy opened in 2016 and has been graded an F school all three years, has not met academic growth expectations, had enrollment drop from 235 students to 195 last […]
Improvements across all tested elementary, middle school grade levels encouraging sign among district results, Guilford superintendent says
GREENSBORO — Overall pass rates on state tests are up slightly in Guilford County Schools, but the district’s superintendent sees a more encouraging sign in a pattern in the data. For the 2018-19 school year, Superintendent Sharon Contreras said, all the tested elementary and middle school grade levels showed improvement in every subject for the end-of-grade exams […]