As traditional-calendar elementary students prepare for the outdoor fun of summer vacation, one local school hopes to block the brain drain brought on by the prolonged break.
Published: May. 18, 2013 6:00 PM | Full story
A proposal to spend nearly $5 million to upgrade the athletic stadium at Athens Drive High School has become a contentious sticking point as the Wake County school board and county commissioners squabble over details of a bond referendum.
Published: May. 17, 2013 9:55 AM | Full story
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Two schools in western Wake County would see renovations, and the area would gain about half a dozen new schools in the coming years under a proposed list of school construction projects.
Published: May. 14, 2013 2:30 PM | Full story
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Some fourth-graders at Olive Chapel Elementary School are willing to ignore the snooze button and get to school an hour early twice a month to learn about North Carolina history.
Published: May. 14, 2013 6:00 PM | Full story
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Published: May. 14, 2013 6:00 PM | Full story
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Students and parents are banding together to save the eighth-grade dance at Reedy Creek Middle School. With fewer donations coming in than usual, boosters are sounding the alarm and eighth-graders are rallying to make the event happen later this month.
Published: May. 11, 2013 3:45 PM | Full story
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Published: May. 7, 2013 6:00 PM | Full story
Nonprofit group VIP for VIP staged a mock car accident Thursday for Apex High School seniors as a way to get young adults to stop driving while distracted, wear seatbelts, avoid driving while under the influence and to stop speeding.
Published: May. 7, 2013 6:00 PM | Full story
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Published: Apr. 30, 2013 6:00 PM | Full story
Nearly every Wake County school keeps iPads on site, but sixth-graders at East Cary Middle School have the district’s first personalized mini-computers.
Published: Apr. 27, 2013 4:15 PM | Full story
Middle Creek and Green Hope high schools made the lists of the nation’s top public high schools released by U.S. News & World Report and the Washington Post.
Published: Apr. 24, 2013 9:49 AM | Full story
The gymnasium of Cary Christian School looked like a factory on Friday morning as hundreds of hair-netted students lined up alongside countless boxes of supplies.
Published: Apr. 23, 2013 3:30 PM | Full story
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Published: Apr. 23, 2013 6:00 PM | Full story
Amid calls for compromise, the Apex Town Council reversed its position on the name of a new high school off Humie Olive Road.
Published: Apr. 22, 2013 12:32 PM | Full story
Once a year, a group of former Cary High School athletes gets together to relive the glory days and stoke the fires of old friendships.
Published: Apr. 16, 2013 6:00 PM | Full story
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Published: Apr. 16, 2013 6:00 PM | Full story
Some Wake County school board members and Apex town leaders say they want to work out a compromise to rename the new West Apex High School after both the town and the Friendship community.
Published: Apr. 13, 2013 6:00 PM | Full story
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Published: Apr. 9, 2013 6:00 PM | Full story
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Published: Apr. 2, 2013 6:00 PM | Full story
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Published: Mar. 27, 2013 11:41 AM | Full story
At Weatherstone Elementary on Saturday, students dug through dirt looking for shark teeth, played with robots and saw what the inside of a computer looks like.
Published: Mar. 26, 2013 5:00 PM | Full story
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Published: Mar. 26, 2013 6:00 PM | Full story
Under the proposal, new students who move into the attendance areas for the 17 overcrowded schools after April 9 face being turned away to attend more distant schools.
Published: Mar. 23, 2013 4:40 PM | Full story
Lufkin Road Middle School technology teacher Jennifer Balgooyen turned a lesson about entrepreneurship into a tasty treat for her business marketing students. She took them to the Chirba Chirba Dumpling food truck at Centre Green in Cary on Friday.
Published: Mar. 19, 2013 6:00 PM | Full story
Bill Fletcher said he has three main priorities to address as the new Cary-area representative on the Wake County school board: overcrowded schools, student assignment and academic rigor.
Published: Mar. 16, 2013 3:00 PM | Full story
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Published: Mar. 12, 2013 6:00 PM | Full story
The Democratic majority on the Wake County school board crossed party lines on Saturday to appoint Bill Fletcher, a Republican, to the vacant seat on the board that represents much of Cary.
Published: Mar. 11, 2013 9:03 AM | Full story
Kip Caton, a music teacher at Fuquay-Varina Elementary, has been helping students perform in the Wake schools’ talent showcase for 30 years.
Published: Mar. 9, 2013 6:00 PM | Full story
A fifth-grade class at Salem Elementary in Apex organized a massive jump-rope event Friday.
Published: Mar. 5, 2013 5:35 PM | Full story
Local educators came to Cary to learn new techniques for an ancient art.
Published: Mar. 5, 2013 6:00 PM | Full story
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