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The Moore County Board of Education, fresh off a meeting that ended in a shouting match, kicked off an eight-hour work session on Monday with unanimous approval of the district’s

More than $25 million in federal coronavirus relief funding to Moore County Schools will cover wide-ranging expenses over the next three years: from activity buses and teacher assistants to new running tracks at Pinecrest and North Moore high schools. Administrators told the school board on Tuesday that those needs and many others intersect with the directive to spend that money on preventing the transmission of COVID-19 and recovering from the pandemic’s effects over the last year. The district has until May 7 to apply to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction with an outline of how ...

The Moore County Board of Commissioners reviewed a proposed new framework for school funding on Tuesday that would allocate a per-pupil calculation for the upcoming fiscal year. The $32.5 million local budget request covers the associated costs with projected enrollment growth in the district and in charter schools, plus $1.1 million to fund a new salary scale for supporting staff. “It is time to provide full and certain funding for every child whether they sit in our classrooms or log in from home,” said Board of Education Chair Libby Carter. “It seeks to maintain our programs...

School board members found consensus and a compromise of sorts on Monday night in adopting a Moore County Schools budget for the coming year.

New statewide social studies standards aimed at incorporating the experiences of minorities and marginalized groups throughout history have some Moore County school board members asking whether or not individual districts can opt out or delay the implementation of state-set curriculum. The State Board of Education approved those new standards in a 7-5 vote in February, effectively setting new guidelines for how the subject is addressed in kindergarten through 12th grade classrooms around the state. The new standards have been nearly two years in the making and are timed along with a realignme...