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Moore County Schools Superintendent Bob Grimesey is proposing a local budget for the 2021-2022 school year that would maintain the district’s current level of services and staffing. Still, the $32.5 million budget request is $2.1 million more than the county commissioners allocated to Moore County Schools for the current year’s operating expenses. That increase would cover the implementation of a new pay scale for unlicensed support staff including bus drivers, custodians and cafeteria workers at $1.1 million. Another $550,000 or so would go toward pay raises as well: matching the s...

The Moore County Board of Education started discussing new expenses for the 2021-2022 year — and how to pay for them — on Monday in an even more uncertain environment

Negotiations around the sale of the old Southern Pines Elementary School campus may be approaching a successful resolution. School board members authorized Moore County Schools officials to continue working toward a final agreement with Moore Montessori Community School, the charter school that hopes to purchase and move into the old Southern Pines Elementary, and roundly endorsed the latest set of provisions hammered out between the district’s and Moore Montessori’s attorneys. Moore Montessori has been the leading potential buyer for the May Street property since June, when the sch...

As Moore County Schools works to negotiate a sale of the old Southern Pines Elementary campus to Moore Montessori Community School, school board members are doubling down on the conditions

An administrative request to shift surplus funds from one school bond construction project to another prompted a contentious discussion of the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday. The five-member board ultimately approved moving the leftover money from Aberdeen Elementary to the new Southern Pines Elementary, but not without some fractured debate. The item in question, involving a $1.56 million transfer, is normally a routine matter and originally had been slotted for the commissioners’ consent agenda. Consent agenda items are approved together in one action. But during a Dec. 31 me...