Alamance-Burligton Schools see high demand and enough teachers for summer school learning recovery thetimesnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thetimesnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
But don’t expect them to all be back on track in August.
“It is not a magic bullet,” said Michael Maher, director of the newly created Office of Learning Recovery and Acceleration of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. “We are not going to put kids into a six-week program this summer and recover 18 months of their lives; it just won’t work that way.”
North Carolina’s fall End of Course exams showed math and science scores falling by 10 points or more, though English grades were stable. Third-grade reading scores were also lower in the fall than the year before. Those test results are also less reliable than in a normal year since far fewer students took those tests.
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New high school
$58,133,184: guaranteed maximum price (GMP)
GMP, the school system is building the new school with a construction manager at risk, Samet Corporation, which locks in a maximum price before construction starts
$7.7 million for structural steel, which is nearly double previous estimates
$1.3 million career technical education (CTE) building, what used to be called vocational, paid for out of capital reserve funds instead of bond funds because of steel cost overruns
$67 million estimated total cost including design fees and $2.2 million in land costs
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When Barrett Brown had issues with some students sleeping in class, he was faced with two choices: send them to the principal’s office or investigate the core reason. He decided on the latter. And when he did, he discovered that some kids weren’t getting enough sleep because they were tasked with taking care of younger siblings while their parents worked late shifts. Do you suspend them or send them to the office every time they are not up in class?” asked Brown, a former teacher who is now Alamance County’s NAACP president. “Being aware of what s going on in students lives sometimes can make a difference with how you deal with disciplinary challenges.”
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OVER 40% OF NORTH CAROLINIANS ARE FULLY VACCINATED: At least 969,752 people in North Carolina have tested positive for the coronavirus, and 12,651 have died since March 2020, according to state health officials. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services reported 2,231 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, up from 1,985 reported the day before. At least 1,101 people were hospitalized with the coronavirus as of Friday, down from 1,137 reported on Thursday. As of Wednesday, the latest day for which data is available, 4.8% of coronavirus tests were reported positive. Nearly half of adults in North Carolina, or 49.2%, have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. At least 40.5% are now fully vaccinated.