board of education – Moore County Edition

Feb

21

2024

Moore school board approves new high school classes

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CARTHAGE – The Moore County Schools Board of Education met Monday, Feb. 12, beginning with a number of updates to the high school course catalog for the 2024-25 school year. New classes include AP Drawing and AP 3D Art and Design at Pinecrest High School and Union Pines High School, and “The Bible as History” as a new social studies elective. American History I and II are being replaced with American History, and “American History: Founding Principles, Civics and Economics” will be replaced with “Founding Principles of the United State of America and North Carolina: Civic Literacy.” The prerequisite requirements…

Sep

27

2023

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By Ryan Henkel, North State Journal

Board of Education approves hiring of two virtual teachers at Crain’s Creek

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ABERDEEN — The Moore County Schools Board of Education met Monday, September 11, with various policy and contract discussions on the agenda. The board first approved the second reading of revisions to 15 new policies that had already previously been approved. “Most of them are essentially dictated by the state school board association, which tells us about the new laws, and we revised our policies to be consistent with those,” said Board Chair Robert Levy. “Although we do look at our policies. We don’t just blindly rubber stamp these from the state school board association.” There were two policies that…

Aug

23

2023

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By Ryan Henkel

Board of Education approves extension to Superintendent’s contract

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CARTHAGE – The Moore County Schools Board of Education met Monday, August 14, with a few budgetary matters as well as an update on the Superintendent’s contract on the agenda. The first action item the board approved was the purchase of three new activity buses from White’s IC Bus at the price of $130,758 per bus. According to the plan presented by Assistant Superintendent for Operations Jenny Purvis, two of the buses would be purchased with ESSER funds, and the third bus will be funded through Transportation 706 funds. “We’re moving forward with the purchase of three activity buses to…

May

17

2023

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By Ryan Henkel, North State Journal

Board of Education approves traditional calendar for 2024-25 school year

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CARTHAGE — The Moore County Schools Board of Education met Monday, May 8, with a full agenda of action items, including a vote on an upcoming calendar for the 2024-25 school year. The board’s first report was a proposal for a potential Student Uniform Policy. According to board member Shannon Davis, who presented the policy, the reason behind looking into the policy is mainly for safety and education. “It creates cohesion, expectations are removed and a sense of equality is available, children from all socio-economic backgrounds are on a level playing field and it creates a standard that we are…

Mar

15

2023

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By Ryan Henkel, North State Journal

New quotes for gym repairs to save Moore County Schools over $6 million

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WEST END — The Moore County Schools Board of Education met Monday, March 13, with multiple endorsements and financial requests on the agenda. The board recognized McDeeds Creek and Pinehurst Elementary Schools for their national recognition as model Professional Learning Communities. “Professional learning communities recognize the key to improved learning for students is ongoing, job-embedded learning for the adults that serve those students,” said board member Ken Benway. “The three big ideas of a PLC call upon educators to focus on learning, build a collaborative culture, and create a results orientation. Schools are recognized based on strict criteria, including a…

Jan

11

2023

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By Ryan Henkel, North State Journal

Moore County Schools bans TikTok, ByteDance entirely from district

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CARTHAGE — The Moore County Board of Education met Monday with two major topics up for discussion. The first topic the board was presented with was a recommendation from Superintendent Tim Locklair to adopt an amended 2022-2023 Budget Resolution for the first quarter to account for an increase of $6,518.343.07 from what they previously had budgeted. However, Board Vice Chair David Hensley presented his own recommendation for utilizing the funding increase to cover some previously approved costs that had dipped into the district’s fund balance reserves. “In order to decompress the classified staff’s salary and to hire an additional full-time…

Oct

26

2022

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By Ryan Henkel, North State Journal

Board of Education presented with land use study in order to address projected capacity concerns in district schools

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CARTHAGE — The Moore County Board of Education met Tuesday, October 11, where they were presented with a land-use study and information regarding the North Carolina general statute on school calendars. The board was presented with a report by the Operations Research and Education Laboratory within the Institute of Transportation Research and Education of the Integrated Planning for School and Community Study and Land Use Study conducted for Moore County. “The last time this type of study was conducted was presented to the board in January of 2018,” said Executive Officer for Operations John Birath. “Good practice with districts is…

Aug

25

2021

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By Moore County Staff

Randolph County school board calls special meeting on COVID

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ASHEBORO — With eight schools currently affected by COVID-19 quarantine protocols due to contact tracing, The Randolph County Board of Education has called a special meeting for Sunday, August 29 at 2pm In an email to the North State Journal, the county’s largest school system said its leaders would meet at the R. Alton Cox Learning Resources Center Auditorium at Randolph Community College, 629 Industrial Park Avenue, Asheboro, for the purpose of discussing the current status of COVID-19 in the Randolph County School System and COVID-19 protocols. The system said Monday that Southeastern Randolph Middle School, Southwestern Randolph high School, Southwestern Randolph Middle School, Randleman…

Jul

21

2021

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By Bob Sutton

Incumbents file in large numbers for municipal elections

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ASHEBORO — Asheboro mayor David Smith, who first elected to that position in 2009, will run unopposed in November’s election, while there are six candidates for four spots on the city council. Incumbent council members Clark Bell, Walker Moffitt and Katie Snuggs will have challenges from Kelly Heath, William (Bill) McCaskill and Delilah Perkins Warner. Linda Carter isn’t running for re-election for a board spot. For the Asheboro City Schools board of education, there will be seven names on the ballot for four open positions. Vice chair Baxter Hammer and Beth Knott are aiming to remain on the board. Other…