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A new superintendent has been named for the Alamance-Burlington Schools.

The Alamance-Burlington Board of Education will have a special called meeting Tuesday, Feb. 22, and there might be enough votes to make the district mask optional.

Universal mask requirement stirs spat between school board members, silent protest from parents August 5, 2021 Much of the discussion at the Alamance-Burlington school board’s special-called meeting Monday afternoon illustrated the growing pushback over whether public officials have a right to intervene in personal healthcare decisions by instituting Covid-19 mask mandates and “vaccine passports” that require proof of vaccination to travel, return to work, or enter certain facilities. Sch...

Controversy over Southern Alamance High School yearbook boils over in school board meeting.

Southern Alamance High School’s Yearbook Documented What Happened This School Year. Parents Are Furious. Photo obtained from Facebook Your high school yearbook is for memorializing what life was like in your last years of childhood. The football games, the school plays, and the photos of brace-faced freshman and shawl-and-tux-clad seniors. Oftentimes, yearbooks will also preserve national phenomena in the extra pages in the book, which is what Southern Alamance High School did in its 2020-...

The Alamance-Burlington School meeting got heated Monday night following public comment about the Southern Alamance High yearbook.

Students will be back in elementary schools March 1 and in middle and high schools March 8, after a vote by the Alamance-Burlington Board of Education, Tuesday, unless they change plans again. “I promise you if we are not in a better place, I will bring a motion at our February meeting,” said Board Chair Allison Gant before the vote. “I do believe safety will have to trump at some point.” The board had a long, contentious and emotional debate Tuesday afternoon on Superintendent Bruce Be...