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On Friday, the New Hanover County School Board voted 4-3 to temporarily remove the book, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You from the district’s classrooms, but keep it in high school libraries.
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At last week’s New Hanover County School Board meeting, the public discussion on the future of the book, Stamped: Antiracism, Racism, and You in one AP English Language and Composition class has given rise to overarching discussions on how these college-level courses are conducted.
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On Monday, the New Hanover County school board decided to ban education activist Sandy Eyles from meetings and committees until June 30, 2023. Eyles voiced disappointment with the decision, but it's also a shorter ban than district staff originally wanted to impose.
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In July, WHQR reported that New Hanover County Schools and the University of North Carolina Wilmington couldn’t locate the results of a federal grant worth over $10 million, from the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Justice, and Education, to study violence prevention in the mid-2000s. But more recently, evidence of the grant has come to light.
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At Tuesday evening’s New Hanover County School Board meeting, the Republican slate of Pat Bradford, Josie Barnhart, Melissa Mason, and Pete Wildeboer took their oaths of office.
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At Tuesday's New Hanover County school board meeting, members discussed the results of the staff climate surveys — which contained some painfully negative feedback. Also on the agenda: the use of federal ESSER funds, rising costs for elementary schools, the Sophic Solutions contract, the Call to the Audience format, and the pandemic.
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On Friday, the New Hanover County school board voted to censure Judy Justice 5 to 2, with Justice and Stephanie Walker dissenting.
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At the Tuesday, January 4th, 2022, New Hanover County School Board meeting, members voted to consider a censure for member Judy Justice for allegedly disclosing confidential personnel information.
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The New Hanover County Health Department reports a Covid-19 positivity rate of close to 21%. Yesterday, the school board took note of that figure and voted 5 to 2 to reinstate the mask mandate — with the exception of student athletes participating in a sporting event.
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New Hanover County’s teaching assistants are calling for the school board to raise their base salaries from $14 dollars an hour to $17. But the superintendent and district staff say their hands are tied until the next budgetary cycle.