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Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools

The Chapel Hill and Carrboro city schools grew from the Chapel Hill Graded School District, created in 1909 to run the town's schools apart from the county board; Carrboro's schools joined in 1959. Stanley Vickers's 1961 federal court victory set the district on the course to desegregation, and in 1966 all-Black Lincoln High merged into Chapel Hill High.

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More than a mentoring program : attacking institutional racism

Meyer, Graig M. · 2018 · Information Age Publishing

Graig M. Meyer's 2018 account, written with George Noblit, of a youth mentoring program in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools that set out to attack institutional racism and close racial achievement gaps. Chapters lay out an antiracist mentoring model, racial identity development, advocacy at the system level, staffing and leadership, and a culture of continuous improvement. Published by Information Age Publishing, 211 pages, online.

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Oral history interview with Sam Holton, March 28, 2001: interview K-0206, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Holton, Samuel M. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Samuel M. Holton (1922-2010) sat on Chapel Hill's school board during desegregation. Elected in 1968 after a term as PTA president, he took office as racial tension rose after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Talking with Jenny Matthews in March 2001, he describes the board's decisions on integrating the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and the conflicts that came with them. Runs about eighty minutes; electronic edition issued by the UNC library in 2007 through Documenting the American South.

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Oral history interview with Edwin Caldwell, March 2, 2001: interview K-0202, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Caldwell, Edwin · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Edwin Caldwell, Jr. reviews a life in Chapel Hill politics in a three-hour Southern Oral History Program interview recorded March 2, 2001, by Oliver White. A skilled organizer, Caldwell worked in the campaign that made Howard Lee the town's first Black mayor in 1969, ran for office more than once without winning, and became a local political power. The conversation also covers race relations, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board and the Church of Reconciliation. Published online in 2006 in Documenting the American South.

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The effects of desegregation on selected variables in the Chapel Hill city school system

Prichard, Paul Newton, 1935- · 1969

Paul Newton Prichard's 1969 study of what desegregation changed in the Chapel Hill city school system, measured against academic achievement and other selected variables. Topics include school integration and achievement in the town, and a bibliography runs to page 115. Written during the district's own desegregation years, which makes it a contemporary source as well as a study.

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Special report; a plan for the desegregation of the Chapel Hill public schools.

Chapel Hill Fellowship for School Integration · 1959 · Charlotte-Mecklenburg Council on Human Relations

In 1959 the Chapel Hill Fellowship for School Integration set out a plan for desegregating the town's public schools. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Council on Human Relations printed it in Charlotte as an eight leaf report with a single table. Topics include school integration and segregation in education at Chapel Hill, which makes this a primary document of the local desegregation effort as it was being argued.

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Writing and growing : the 2012 Chapel Hill-Carrboro school system writing contest

Ellis, Peggy · 2012 · Righter Books

Anthology of entries from the 2012 Chapel Hill-Carrboro school system writing contest, compiled by Peggy Ellis and sponsored by the Writers' Discussion Group of Chapel Hill. The pieces are fiction and biographical essays by children and teenagers of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Published by Righter Books of Timberlake, North Carolina, 62 pages.

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The new kids in school : an analysis of English as a second language programs in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and the Durham Public Schools

Ice, Kelsey Christine · 2009

Kelsey Christine Ice compares the English as a second language programs run by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and the Durham Public Schools, completed in 2009 as a 57 leaf study with illustrations. Topics include curricula in both districts and the teaching of English to foreign speakers in North Carolina, which puts the Orange County half of the comparison in Chapel Hill and Carrboro classrooms.

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Accom[m]odating cultural differences : an exploratory study examining the relationship dynamics between Mexican immigrant mothers and early childhood teachers in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district

Watts, Stephanie (Stephanie Amanda) · 2004

Stephanie Watts studies how Mexican immigrant mothers and early childhood teachers in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district relate to one another, in a paper completed in 2004. Topics include parent-teacher relationships, the education of Mexican American children and cultural assimilation, all in Orange County. Fifty leaves with a bibliography on leaves 43 to 44.

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Blue Ribbon Task Force recommendations : an evaluation of the planning and early implementation of two programs designed to improve the scholastic context for African-American students in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

Young, Terrence O. · 1997

An evaluation by Terrence O. Young of two programs meant to improve the scholastic setting for African American students in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, written in 1997 around the recommendations of the district's Blue Ribbon Task Force. The study covers planning and early implementation and runs to 221 leaves with illustrations and a bibliography.

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Chapel Hill/Carrboro City Schools alumni directory 1996.

1996 · Chapel Hill/Carrboro City Schools

Graduates of Chapel Hill High School and of Lincoln High School are listed together in this alumni directory for the Chapel Hill and Carrboro City Schools, published in 1996 for the system's golden anniversary. 228 pages with illustrations and portraits.

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Evaluating the criteria : a stakeholder-based analysis of redistricting in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

Grice, Stephanie Kristen · 1996

Stephanie Kristen Grice weighed the criteria used to redraw school attendance lines in the Chapel Hill and Carrboro City Schools, in a 1996 paper built on the views of stakeholders. Fifty-eight pages plus eight unnumbered leaves of maps. Topics include the school district and schools in both towns, which puts it with the local record of school assignment debates.

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Vickers vs. The Chapel Hill School Board, 1954-1961

Warren, Gloria Vickers · 1994

Gloria Vickers Warren's 1994 account of the Vickers case against the Chapel Hill school board between 1954 and 1961, an early challenge to segregated schooling in the town. Stanley Vickers and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education are also named, along with school integration in Chapel Hill. Bibliography on leaves 50 to 55.

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Identifying gifted African-American students

Overby, Lara Denise · 1993

Lara Denise Overby's 1993 paper on identifying gifted African American students draws on research carried out in the Chapel Hill and Carrboro City Schools. Eighty-two leaves with a bibliography on leaf 45. Topics include African American students in both towns and the education of gifted children, placing it with local work on referral to advanced programs.

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The Three Tier Model, a continuum of services program for the gifted and talented : a formative evaluation

Courtright, Richard Dennis · 1987

Richard Dennis Courtright's 1987 formative evaluation of the Three Tier Model, a continuum of services program for gifted and talented students, describes and reports results from a program the Chapel Hill and Carrboro City Schools put in place. A long typescript of viii and 374 leaves with illustrations. Topics include the education of gifted children in both towns.

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Brotherhood magazine

1984

Magazine of creative writing by students in the Chapel Hill school system, this issue from 1984. A statement carried in the 1969 issue explains that the magazine was meant to bring together the creative work of those students. It prints their prose and verse, and the run reaches back to the late 1960s.

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1983 creative writing contest, Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools : grades 4th, 5th, 6th

1983 · The Association

Student stories and poems gathered from the 1983 creative writing contest for fourth, fifth and sixth grade pupils in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. At 50 pages it runs longer than the 1982 collection, and topics also include poetry alongside fiction. The association that sponsored the contest published it, and the volume documents elementary classroom writing in the two towns during the early 1980s.

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1982 creative writing contest, Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools : grades 4th, 5th, 6th

1982 · The Association

Winning stories from the 1982 creative writing contest for fourth, fifth and sixth graders in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, printed by the sponsoring association as a 34 page pamphlet.

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Teacher's union : the Chapel Hill-Carrboro experience

Feldman, Miriam K. · 1977

Miriam K. Feldman reported in 1977 on teacher unionism in the Chapel Hill and Carrboro schools, including the American Federation of Teachers. A short typescript of 48 leaves. Of use to anyone tracing labor organizing among North Carolina public school teachers during the 1970s.

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Schools, 1970-1980: Chapel Hill City School Administrative Unit, North Carolina, 1963

Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission · 1963 · The Division

A 1963 planning study by the Research Triangle Regional Planning Commission projecting school building needs for the Chapel Hill City School Administrative Unit through the decade 1970 to 1980. It relates to city planning in Chapel Hill, school buildings and school planning in North Carolina. v and 94 pages with eleven leaves of plates, illustrations and maps.

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[Campaign literature concerning a possible merger of the White Cross area with the Chapel Hill school district]

1961

Campaign material from 1961 on a proposed merger of the White Cross area with the Chapel Hill school district, compiled by Abbie Laurie Lloyd. It concerns high schools in Orange County and the school district at White Cross.

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The Struggle for Racial Equality in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

Tatter, Grace · 2014

Grace Tatter's 2014 account of the struggle for racial equality in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, listed from the bibliography's own curation. Anyone needing more should consult the item itself.

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The Cost of Opportunity: School Desegregation and Changing Race Relations in the Southeast since Brown

McElreath, Jack Michael · 2002

Jack Michael McElreath's 2002 doctoral study of school desegregation, xi and 589 pages with illustrations and maps, reproduced by UMI Dissertation Services in 2003. Topics include African American education and public school systems in Orange, Durham and Wake counties, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools, and race relations in the 20th century. Part of UNC's North Carolina Collection.

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Chapel Hill-Carrboro city schools : an update, 1990

North Carolina · 1990 · School Planning

A September 1990 update on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro city schools, prepared by the School Planning office of North Carolina state government and issued in Raleigh. Fifty one pages with one map. Topics include schools in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, so the report documents the district serving the two Orange County towns at the start of the 1990s, of use for school facility history.

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Report and recommendations of the Human Relations Commission to the Chapel Hill School Board.

North Carolina Human Relations Commission · 1970 · North Carolina Human Relations Commission

A 1970 report to the Chapel Hill school board from the North Carolina Human Relations Commission, fifteen leaves of findings and recommendations. Subjects include race relations in Chapel Hill and discrimination in education in the town's high schools, so the document speaks directly to the local schools and the state agency's view of them.

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Effects of Desegregation on Student Success in the Chapel Hill City Schools

Prichard, Paul N. · 1969 · North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill.

Paul N. Prichard's 1969 study in Integrated Education of how desegregation affected student achievement in the Chapel Hill City Schools, comparing grades and test results for Black and white pupils in the fifth, seventh and ninth grades. Academic achievement, achievement testing and racial differences run through it. The work came out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Chapel Hill, N.C. Graded School

1912 · A. A. Kluttz, Chapel Hill, N.C

Front view of the Chapel Hill Graded School on a German-printed postcard published by A. A. Kluttz of Chapel Hill, number 13689. It was mailed on 24 May 1912 by a son named Wilfred to his mother in Monroeville, N.J., with a short note saying he hoped to arrive home before the card did.

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Adeline Denham McCall photographic collection, 1908-1950s (bulk 1940s-1950s).

McCall, Adeline, 1900-1989 · 1908

Fifty one photographs gathered by the music teacher Adeline McCall (1900-1989), spanning 1908 through the 1950s with most images from the 1940s and 1950s, in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Subjects include the Orange County Training School and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, school music instruction, African American children, the North Carolina Symphony, and portraits of Leonard Bernstein and A. C. Howell.

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Chapel Hill Public Schools (Chapel Hill Historical Society vertical file)

Chapel Hill's public schools, in newspaper clippings, photocopied articles, promotional materials, and reports and notes. Undated folder from the Schools series of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Vertical File Collection (CHHS.001).

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Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, 1909-2009 : a century of learning and leading.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (N.C.) · 2009 · Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

A 23 minute video made by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools in 2009 for the centennial of the district, covering a hundred years of public education in the two towns. Black and white sequences run through the color footage, and the program includes African American education in Orange County. One videodisc.

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Corridors : the instructional journal of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.

1995 · Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

An instructional journal published by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools for its own teachers, running to seven illustrated volumes by 1995. Articles concern elementary and secondary education in the district. A source for how the schools described their own classroom practice.

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Focus on progress.

Chapel Hill City Schools (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 1983 · Chapel Hill City Schools

Chapel Hill City Schools published this periodical from 1983, covering public schools in Chapel Hill and the school system itself. Volumes with illustrations at 28 centimeters.

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Progress report

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (N.C.) · 1982 · Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools

Progress report from the Chapel Hill and Carrboro City Schools for 1982, fifteen pages with illustrations in a small landscape format at 11 by 21 centimeters. Includes a page on district finances for 1982 and 1983. Topics include the district and schools in both towns.

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North Carolina public schools, the uniform budget, fiscal year 1977-78, Chapel Hill-Carrboro city.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (N.C.) · 1977

The uniform budget filed by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools for fiscal year 1977-78, prepared on the standard form required of North Carolina districts. It details school appropriations and expenditures for the district. Sixty three leaves in a wide format.

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Record for ... : with announcements for ...

Chapel Hill Graded School (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 1974 · Chapel Hill Graded School

Annual record and announcements of the Chapel Hill Graded School, issued in volumes at 21 centimeters and dated 1974. The title carries two ellipses because each issue covers one school year and announces the next.

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The junior literary magazine

1968 · Chapel Hill City Schools

A 1968 literary magazine of prose and verse by pupils in the Chapel Hill City Schools, printed by the school system.

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Commencement exercises of the Chapel Hill Graded School.

Chapel Hill Graded School (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 1961 · Chapel Hill Graded School

Commencement programs from the Chapel Hill Graded School, dated 1961 and issued in volumes at 25 centimeters. The catalog files them under commencement ceremonies in Chapel Hill and under the school by name. Programs like these are usually worth checking for names and dates in local school history.

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[Area of the present Chapel Hill School District].

1951 · Chapel Hill School Board

A 1951 map from the Chapel Hill School Board outlining the area then making up the Chapel Hill school district, with explanatory text on the sheet. School district lines shifted repeatedly in Orange County, and a map like this one fixes where the boundary ran in a given year.

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Closing exercises of the Chapel Hill Graded School.

Chapel Hill Graded School (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · 1939 · Chapel Hill Graded School

End of year exercises at the Chapel Hill Graded School, printed from 1939 in volumes of 21 to 23 centimeters. Topics include commencement ceremonies in Chapel Hill and the school itself. Closing exercises was the usual name for the end of the school year in that period.

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Statement of the Board of Trustees of the Chapel Hill Graded School to the citizens of Chapel Hill : discussing the issues in the school election called for May 30, 1922.

Chapel Hill Graded School (Chapel Hill, N.C.). Board of Trustees · 1922

Statement the trustees of the Chapel Hill Graded School addressed to the town's citizens ahead of the school election called for May 30, 1922, setting out the issues on the ballot. The questions before voters concerned paying for the town's schools. Local printing from an early moment in Chapel Hill school politics.

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A statement showing that the town of Chapel Hill cannot do less than it is now doing for the education of its children, that the present taxes for school purposes are small, and that the increase asked is reasonable and will not be burdensome

Chapel Hill Graded School (Chapel Hill, N.C.). Board of Trustees · 1922 · Board of Trustees, Chapel Hill Graded School

Statement from the Board of Trustees of the Chapel Hill Graded School, printed in 1922, making the case that the town could not do less for the education of its children and that the tax increase being asked was small and reasonable. Topics include school taxes and the financing of education in Chapel Hill. Local argument from a campaign to raise the school levy.

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  1. A county public school opens in the Chapel Hill district At the request of district school committeeman O. B. Tenney, the Ledger announced that a public school had been opened by county authority in the Chapel Hill district, free to all children of the district between six and twenty-one. The Chapel Hill Ledger, January 18, 1879, p. 3
  2. The Chapel Hill school district counts 460 children of school age The school committee's report for the Chapel Hill district counted 460 children between six and twenty-one: 262 white (132 boys, 130 girls) and 198 Black (98 boys, 100 girls). The Ledger used the count to press for a graded school. The Chapel Hill Ledger, August 30, 1879, p. 2
  3. County commissioners call a graded-school tax vote for the Chapel Hill school district Acting under a new act of the legislature, the county commissioners ordered an election for May 3 in Chapel Hill School District No. 24 on a special property and poll tax to support graded schools for white and Black children. They named W. E. Lindsay, W. F. Lloyd and A. J. McDade registrars. People: William E. Lindsay, Alphonso J. McDade Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 8, 1897, p. 3
  4. Commissioners call a special school tax election in the Chapel Hill district On August 3, 1903, the county commissioners ordered an election in the Chapel Hill school district on September 14 to learn whether its voters would levy a special school tax, naming John O'Daniel registrar and S. W. Andrews and J. D. Webb judges. People: Samuel Weldon Andrews, Junius D. Webb Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 6, 1903, p. 3
  5. E. M. Highsmith becomes the first superintendent of the Chapel Hill schools The book's list of Chapel Hill school superintendents begins with E. M. Highsmith, 1908 to 1910. Chapel Hill ran its schools as a separate unit under a special legislative charter. Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 145
  6. The legislature creates the Chapel Hill Graded School District An act ratified February 26, 1909 created the Chapel Hill Graded School District, with a special school tax and six trustees, among them Charles H. Herty and N. W. Walker, who ran its schools free of the Orange County board. Voters had to approve it in May; the city school system dates its founding to 1909. People: Charles H. Herty, N. W. Walker Private Laws of the State of North Carolina, Session of 1909, chapter 2, pp. 7-11 (Internet Archive)
  7. Fred W. Morrison takes charge of the Chapel Hill schools After a year as principal of New Bern High School, Fred W. Morrison, a 1913 graduate of the university, became head of the Chapel Hill school system. He led it until 1924, apart from his army service in 1918. NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography): Morrison, Fred Wilson
  8. Chapel Hill's white graded school and high school move into a new West Franklin Street building After a school bond election in May 1915, Chapel Hill's new $35,000 graded school building went up on West Franklin Street and was in use when the public school opened on September 11, 1916. It held the grammar grades and the high school, whose enrollment had doubled to 85 in four years. DigitalNC: The News (Chapel Hill), September 7, 1916, p. 1 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), August 12, 1915, p. 1; The News (Chapel Hill), May 6, 1915, p. 4; Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan; Open Orange: Chapel Hill Graded School
  9. Chapel Hill Graded School puts a Ford truck to work hauling country children The Chapel Hill Graded School received a Ford truck fitted out to carry children who lived in the nearby country to school. The News (Chapel Hill), December 6, 1919, p. 5
  10. Chapel Hill Graded School enrollment reaches 437 as a three-room addition goes up The Chapel Hill Graded School, which opened with 353 pupils, had grown to 437 by mid-October, including 158 in the high school against 111 the year before, while a three-room addition was nearly ready. New vocational agriculture teaching drew country boys from southern Orange. The News (Chapel Hill), October 13, 1921, p. 3
  11. Chapel Hill school district voters approve $40,000 in bonds for school buildings In a special election called by the Board of Aldermen at the request of the graded school trustees, voters of the Chapel Hill Graded School District approved $40,000 in bonds to build and equip school buildings and buy a site. Of 514 registered voters, 319 voted for the bonds, a majority of the registration as the law required. People: W. S. Roberson The News (Chapel Hill), June 8, 1922, p. 5
  12. The Chapel Hill Graded School graduates a high school class of twenty-four The Chapel Hill Graded School closed its year with commencement exercises in the school auditorium, where N. W. Walker gave the address and F. P. Venable handed diplomas to twenty-four graduates, with two more receiving certificates. People: N. W. Walker, Francis Preston Venable The News (Chapel Hill), June 8, 1922, p. 4
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  1. Chapel Hill's public school opens with what the News called its largest enrollment The Chapel Hill school opened for the year with more than four hundred pupils from the town and the country around it on the first day, the largest enrollment in its history according to the News. The News (Chapel Hill), September 14, 1922, p. 5
  2. Chapel Hill Township schools hold their contests for the county commencement On Saturday, April 14, 1923, despite rain, children from the Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Blackwood, Piney Mountain, Elm Grove, Damascus and Merritt schools met at the Chapel Hill Graded School for the township's spelling, story-telling, singing, speaking and track contests. Winners were to go to Hillsboro on May 5 to compete at the county commencement. The News (Chapel Hill), April 19, 1923, p. 1
  3. Lettie Glass serves as acting superintendent of the Chapel Hill schools Lettie Glass ran the Chapel Hill schools as acting superintendent while Fred W. Morrison was away, and again in 1923-1924, when the Weekly reported at the September opening that she would be in charge for the year, with 22 teachers, while Morrison was on leave to study at Columbia University. She is the only woman in the book's list of superintendents. People: Fred W. Morrison Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 145 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 13, 1923, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 6, 1923, p. 1
  4. The Chapel Hill school board bars Carrboro children from its elementary grades Answering a formal protest from the Carrboro school board, the Chapel Hill school board ruled that Carrboro children could no longer enter its elementary grades without Carrboro's permission, and 16 already enrolled had to go back to the Carrboro school. Children from anywhere else in the township could still attend. The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 20, 1923, p. 1
  5. The Chapel Hill school board sets up a department of physical education The Chapel Hill school board created a department of physical education meant for every pupil, named Dr. Robert B. Lawson its unpaid director and G. H. Paulsen unpaid business manager of athletics, and set aside $500 for apparatus and playground equipment. To keep team sports from crowding out exercise for all, it proposed a limit on games in the major sports. The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 8, 1924, p. 1
  6. The Chapel Hill school board requires smallpox vaccination for every entering pupil The school board resolved that every child entering the Chapel Hill School that year must show a recent smallpox vaccination scar or be vaccinated on entering. Dr. S. A. Nathan offered to vaccinate free all who applied, and families could instead have their own physician do it with points supplied by the health department. People: N. W. Walker, S. A. Nathan The News (Chapel Hill), September 4, 1924, p. 4
  7. The Chapel Hill school board lends $1,000 as a revolving fund for the farm marketing plan The Chapel Hill school board voted $1,000 as a loan to the new farm marketing plan, a revolving fund so that farmers could be paid each week before buyers settled their accounts. The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 25, 1924, p. 1
  8. The Chapel Hill school board buys the back of the Wallace Patterson place The Chapel Hill school board bought a plot 180 by 120 feet off the north end of the Wallace Patterson place, next to the school grounds, and took an option on the rest of the property. Board secretary N. W. Walker said the town would soon need a high school separate from the elementary school, to be used also as a demonstration school for the University's school of education. People: N. W. Walker The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 29, 1925, p. 1
  9. Chapel Hill school board keeps teaching country children free while it seeks a township school tax Despite the county's budget cut, the Chapel Hill school board decided to go on teaching children from outside its tax district without charge for the time being, and to seek an election on a uniform school tax for the whole township. It cut its teaching force from 21 to 18 to live within the smaller allowance. People: W. S. Roberson The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 19, 1925, p. 1
  10. Chapel Hill school board drops the agriculture department The school board decided to abolish the agriculture department in the fall, because nearly all its pupils came from outside the district and the county gave no aid, leaving $1,600 a year on Chapel Hill taxpayers; home economics was also in doubt. In June the Weekly reported that the agriculture teacher, G. H. Singleton, had left because funds were not available. People: L. R. Sides The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 8, 1927, p. 1
  11. The Chapel Hill school board borrows $3,000 on its members' personal endorsements Needing cash for teachers' pay, the Chapel Hill school board decided on September 13 to borrow $3,000 on a note its members endorsed personally, to be repaid from money due from the county. The Weekly reported that the members already stood behind $18,000 in older notes for playground land, cafeteria equipment and operating deficits, that an audit claimed about $7,000 owed by the county, and that a bond issue might be needed since the district school tax was at its legal limit. The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 16, 1927, p. 1
  12. E. R. Mosher resigns as superintendent of the Chapel Hill school After a second outcry among parents over second graders being told to return in the afternoon, and street criticism that the University's school of education dominated the town school, Superintendent E. R. Mosher offered his resignation 'in the interest of community harmony' at a school board meeting, and the board accepted it. H. F. Munch took charge of the high school and Sallie B. Marks of the elementary grades until a new superintendent was elected. People: N. W. Walker The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 28, 1927, p. 1
  13. The Chapel Hill school board elects A. B. Stevens superintendent The town school board elected A. B. Stevens, a former Charlotte schools official finishing a doctorate at Columbia, superintendent of the Chapel Hill school from September 1. He was to answer to the board and be paid by the community, with no tie to the University. The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 30, 1928, p. 1
  14. Chapel Hill school board restores teachers' salaries after cutting them Facing a $5,000 operating deficit and a $16,000 accumulated debt, the Chapel Hill school board sent teachers reappointment offers in early May 1928 with sharp pay cuts, some from $1,800 to $1,200. After a week of public concern it met on May 16 and restored the old salary schedule by reorganizing the teaching force and leaving one vacancy unfilled. People: N. W. Walker The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 18, 1928, p. 1
  15. Chapel Hill school board raises tuition for pupils from outside the district Deciding that district taxpayers should no longer carry the cost of educating children from outside, the school board raised the tuition for the three months outside the legal six-month term to $5 a month in the lower grades and $6 in high school. A plan to collect the tuition in the fall was dropped in early September after a ruling by the state department of education. The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 31, 1928, p. 1
  16. Legislature authorizes a Chapel Hill school bond election In February 1929 the General Assembly ratified an act letting the Chapel Hill Graded School District issue bonds, and on March 4 the aldermen, at the school board's request, called an April 23 election on $15,000 in bonds: $7,500 for school buildings and land already bought and $7,500 to fund a deficit in running expenses. Representative A. H. Graham helped the bill through. People: Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham, Robert A. Eubanks The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 22, 1929, p. 1
  17. Chapel Hill school district voters approve $15,000 in school bonds Voters of the Chapel Hill graded school district carried two $7,500 bond issues, one 266 to 165 and the other 273 to 158, to pay off notes for buildings and an operating deficit, with money hoped to be left for more boiler capacity. Under the law a majority of the 434 registered voters was needed, and backers spent the day telephoning and driving voters to the polls. People: Paul H. Robertson The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 26, 1929, p. 1
  18. M. E. Hogan and R. E. Coker are elected to the Chapel Hill school board Meeting jointly with the hold-over school board members on June 24, 1929, the Chapel Hill aldermen elected banker M. E. Hogan and zoologist R. E. Coker to the town's school board, succeeding N. W. Walker and R. A. Eubanks. The board's next task was choosing a successor to superintendent B. A. Stevens. People: R. E. Coker, N. W. Walker, Robert A. Eubanks, Milton E. Hogan The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 28, 1929, p. 1
  19. The Chapel Hill school district sells $15,000 in school bonds On June 25, 1929, the Chapel Hill special tax school district sold the $15,000 bond issue its voters had recently approved. Ten bids came in; the Hanchett Bond Company of Chicago took the bonds at 5 1/2 percent with a $77 premium, to be repaid from 1932 to 1949. The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 28, 1929, p. 1
  20. C. A. Hoyle becomes supervising principal of both the Chapel Hill and Carrboro schools By early July 1929 the Chapel Hill and Carrboro school boards had made C. A. Hoyle, principal of the Carrboro school, supervising principal of both schools, giving about two thirds of his time to Chapel Hill. Under the new arrangement Carrboro children could attend the Chapel Hill high school without paying extra tuition. The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 5, 1929, p. 1
  21. The Chapel Hill school board turns away children from country districts Faced with crowded elementary grades, Superintendent C. A. Hoyle told the parents of more than 30 children from the White Cross, Damascus, Blackwood, Andrews and Smith Level districts that they must withdraw, and after two meetings with parents the school board confirmed the exclusion. The Weekly named tuition or consolidating country schools with Chapel Hill's as the only other answers. The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 11, 1929, p. 1
  22. Orange County commissioners call an election to enlarge the Chapel Hill school district On a petition from the Chapel Hill Graded School District's trustees approved by the county board of education, the county commissioners ordered an election for May 17, 1930, in the territory between Bolin Creek and Morgan's Creek from the Carrboro taxing district east to the Durham County line, on joining it to the Chapel Hill district and taxing it at the district's rate. New registration was set for April 14 to May 3, with voting at the Chapel Hill high school. The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 11, 1930, p. 8
  23. Chapel Hill school board cuts its teacher salary margin over the state scale The Chapel Hill school board readjusted its salary schedule to bring teachers' pay nearer the state basis: a Grade A teacher would start at $990, 10 percent above the state's $900, and rise to a $1,400 maximum. The change was expected to cut the salary budget by $1,500 to $2,000 and might let the board restore departments it had dropped a year before. The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 30, 1930, p. 1
  24. The Chapel Hill school board drops six teachers and the school secretary Soon after Superintendent Hoyle resigned, the board, chaired by W. S. Roberson, told six teachers and the secretary they would not be re-elected, after a committee inquiry into the school; no economy was involved, as the next budget kept the same pay scale. The Weekly reported that many parents thought the notices came too late and too suddenly for the teachers to find other places. People: W. S. Roberson, R. E. Coker, Edgar Wallace Knight, Eric A. Abernethy, Milton E. Hogan, Carl T. Durham The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 27, 1932, p. 1
  25. The Chapel Hill school board turns down parents who asked it to keep teachers it had dropped After about thirty citizens met at the school on June 10, 1932 and asked the board to retain for one more year the teachers it had not re-elected, a committee led by Rev. A. S. Lawrence put the request to the board in the week of June 20. The board held to its decision; the parents had argued that notice given at the end of May left the teachers no time to find other places. People: Alfred Stratton Lawrence, W. S. Roberson The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 24, 1932, p. 1
  26. The Chapel Hill school board adopts a textbook rental plan for the first four grades By September 2, 1932 the Chapel Hill school board had decided to rent textbooks to pupils in the first four grades, at $2 to $3 a year, as Durham, Greensboro and Reidsville did; buying books remained optional. The school bought back usable second-hand texts on Book Days, September 13 and 14, and began renting books that week. People: J. Minor Gwynn The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 2, 1932, p. 1
  27. Chapel Hill's school runs on $19,474 from the state and $16,876 from local taxes For 1932-33 the Chapel Hill charter school district, serving a white and a Black school, received $19,474 from the state for the six-month term and raised $16,876 locally, keeping a nine-month term; the pending eight-month law would have barred the local supplement. The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 14, 1933, p. 1
  28. The State School Commission makes an enlarged Chapel Hill district a special school unit After first ruling that a special unit needed more children than Chapel Hill had, the State School Commission agreed to make Chapel Hill a special school district once the local board proposed adding the thinly settled country north of Bolin Creek to reach the required enrollment. The new district ran from Morgan Creek and the Durham County line north past the Weaver dairy to the old Hillsboro road, and the board asked leave to vote a supplementary tax of up to 20 cents. People: J. Minor Gwynn The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 21, 1933, p. 1
  29. Chapel Hill's pay scale puts Black teachers' salaries far below white teachers' A table of monthly salaries for Chapel Hill teachers, figured on a 12-month basis, showed white teachers paid about $65 to $77 a month in state and local money and Black teachers about $38 to $46. The town's local supplement ran about $13 to $17 a month for white teachers and $6 to $7 for Black teachers; the table also showed what each would get if the state granted a 25 per cent raise. The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 15, 1935, p. 1
  30. The Chapel Hill school board orders $1,000 of changes to the old school for the elementary grades By April 24, 1936 the Chapel Hill school board decided to spend $1,000 refitting the old school building, which was to hold the elementary grades from the fall once the new high school was finished. Two front rooms were to become a library, the basement library a playroom, and new music, art and handicraft rooms were planned, along with a larger cafeteria and new wiring and lights in the auditorium. The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 24, 1936, p. 1
  31. A. W. Honeycutt becomes superintendent of the Chapel Hill schools Allison W. Honeycutt came to Chapel Hill in 1937 as superintendent of the town schools, through his ties to the university's education department. He had been superintendent at Hendersonville for thirteen years and at Lexington from 1932. People: Allison W. Honeycutt Chapel Hill High School student newspaper, November 2, 1944, p. 1
  32. J. Minor Gwynn gives up the Chapel Hill school superintendency J. Minor Gwynn, superintendent of the Chapel Hill schools since 1932 and a teacher there since 1927, decided to leave the post at the end of the session to teach full time in the University. School board chairman R. E. Coker credited him with the planning of the new high school and a new building at the Orange County Training School, and the board began looking with the University for a successor. People: R. E. Coker, J. Minor Gwynn The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 26, 1937, p. 1
  33. A measles epidemic closes Chapel Hill's three schools early for Christmas With more than 30 per cent of pupils absent, Superintendent A. W. Honeycutt closed the two white schools and the school for Black students on December 16 instead of December 21 as scheduled. Health officer W. P. Richardson counted 230 measles cases in the school area since November 1; three weeks before, he had reported 110 cases from the Chapel Hill community in November, about 60 per cent white and 40 per cent Black, and 896 for the year. People: William P. Richardson, Allison W. Honeycutt The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 16, 1938, p. 1
  34. The Chapel Hill schools finish new playgrounds and courts New outdoor play facilities at the Chapel Hill high school (three volleyball and two basketball courts on the old tennis court site and a graded, fenced playing field along West University Drive) were finished to open on March 20, and the elementary school got two new tennis courts, a volleyball court and lockers from the old Bynum Gymnasium. Superintendent Allison W. Honeycutt said the aim was supervised outdoor play for every pupil. People: Allison W. Honeycutt The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 10, 1939, p. 1
  35. R. J. M. Hobbs leaves the Chapel Hill school board and J. Temple Gobbel joins it The trustees of the Chapel Hill schools elected J. Temple Gobbel on March 31 to fill out the unexpired term of Congressman Carl Durham, and at their April meeting reluctantly accepted the resignation of R. J. M. Hobbs. Under the new school law requiring annual reappointment, they unanimously reappointed superintendent Allison W. Honeycutt. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Carl T. Durham, R. E. Coker, Allison W. Honeycutt The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 7, 1939, p. 1
  36. Mrs. R. H. Wettach is elected to the Chapel Hill school board Mrs. R. H. Wettach was elected to the Chapel Hill school board in place of R. J. M. Hobbs, who had resigned. The other members were R. E. Coker (chairman), Collier Cobb Jr., E. W. Knight, Shell Henninger and J. T. Gobbel. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 19, 1939, p. 1
  37. Chapel Hill school board names William H. Peacock high school principal The board named Peacock, who had taught mathematics and directed athletics, principal of the Chapel Hill high school for 1940-41, succeeding A. J. Parkhurst, who was going to Texas. Mrs. Fred McCall succeeded Mrs. Roben J. Maaske as chief music teacher in the elementary school, and all other teachers were kept. The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 31, 1940, p. 1
  38. The Chapel Hill school board chooses C. E. Buckner as high school principal The school board chose C. E. Buckner, dean and registrar of Brevard College since 1935 and a former Burlington high school principal, to succeed William H. Peacock, who had resigned, as principal of the Chapel Hill high school from the fall of 1942. People: Allison W. Honeycutt The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 3, 1942, p. 4
  39. The Chapel Hill school board adds an eighth grade under the state's twelve-year plan To meet the legislature's change from an eleven-year to a twelve-year program, the board added an eighth grade at the top of the elementary school and at first planned to drop one high school grade a year for four years. After sixteen citizens protested in a July 15 letter, the board let pupils from the Chapel Hill, Carrboro and White Cross seventh grades test into high school, and 22 of 39 qualified. People: Allison W. Honeycutt The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 17, 1942, p. 1
  40. Chapel Hill schools hold a Schools at War ceremony in Hill Music Hall Pupils and teachers of the Chapel Hill schools marked National Schools at War Week with a ceremony in Hill Music Hall at which seventeen war-activity groups, from the Junior Red Cross and salvage squads to the Victory Farm Workers and 4-H clubs, answered a roll call. Mayor R. W. Madry, Superintendent A. W. Honeycutt and school board chairman R. E. Coker spoke. People: Robert W. Madry, R. E. Coker, Allison W. Honeycutt, William F. Lathan The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 20, 1942, p. 5
  41. Chapel Hill school board shortens the school day so pupils can take wartime jobs The Chapel Hill school trustees moved the school day to 8:15 to 1:15 for the rest of the term, because absences by pupils working in the wartime labor shortage threatened the loss of state-paid teachers; a survey found 58 per cent of high school students holding jobs. Within three weeks absences had fallen sharply. People: Allison W. Honeycutt The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 2, 1943, p. 1
  42. The Chapel Hill school board and its Black advisory committee agree to hire an attendance officer Meeting at the Orange County Training School, the board and its committee of Kenneth Jones, Thomas Oldham and Adolphus Clark discussed Black children kept out of school in spite of the compulsory attendance law. The committee urged enforcement, and the board decided to employ an attendance officer and ask the aldermen for the money. People: Kenneth Jones The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 20, 1943, p. 1
  43. The Chapel Hill school board restores the long school day against most parents' wishes The Chapel Hill school board put an 8:45-to-3:15 schedule into effect, ending the wartime 8-to-1 short day, though parents had voted for shorter hours. At a meeting on November 9, 99 of 160 parents had favored 8:40 to 2, 19 the 8-to-1 day and 42 the 9-to-3:30 day, and a written questionnaire gave the same majority. The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 19, 1943, p. 1
  44. An influenza epidemic closes the Chapel Hill schools early for Christmas With influenza putting hundreds of people in Chapel Hill to bed, the school board closed the white schools on December 16, six days before the holiday, after absences reached 41 per cent in the elementary school and 30 per cent in the high school; the Orange County Training School closed the next day. The disease was mild and no deaths had been reported, but the University Infirmary overflowed into its halls. People: Allison W. Honeycutt The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 17, 1943, p. 1
  45. The school board names Charles W. Davis of Roanoke Rapids superintendent The Chapel Hill school board chose Charles W. Davis, superintendent at Roanoke Rapids and an Orange County native and former university student, to succeed A. W. Honeycutt, who had asked in May 1944 not to be reappointed. The board valued his school-building experience as it faced a building program; he was to take office July 1, 1945. People: Allison W. Honeycutt Chapel Hill High School student newspaper, March 8, 1945, p. 1
  46. County boards back a first wing for a new Chapel Hill High School Meeting with the board of education and Dr. R. E. Coker of the Chapel Hill school board, the county commissioners favored starting a high school building in Chapel Hill to replace the one lost to fire, beginning with a single wing of about twelve classrooms. The same day the commissioners reappointed G. W. Ray county accountant and the board of education kept R. H. Claytor as superintendent for two more years. People: R. E. Coker, R. H. Claytor, Gilbert W. Ray The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 5, 1945, p. 1
  47. School boards reject the construction bids for the new Chapel Hill High School On August 15 the Chapel Hill school board, the county commissioners and the county board of education turned down the bids opened August 10 for the two units of the new Chapel Hill High School. The lowest combined bid, $144,769, was well above the $110,000 set aside, and with the war over and contracts cancelled the boards expected lower prices. They agreed not to build the classroom unit alone at the cost of the shop and gymnasium unit, and still hoped to have the building ready by the fall of 1946. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 23, 1945, p. 1
  48. County boards authorize contracts for a new Chapel Hill High School building Meeting in Hillsborough, the County Board of Education and the county commissioners accepted the low bids and let the Chapel Hill school board sign contracts for a new high school building. It was planned as a two-story classroom wing with a basement. People: R. H. Claytor, R. E. Coker The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 6, 1945, p. 1
  49. Cora Bomar joins the Chapel Hill elementary school faculty When the Chapel Hill schools opened in September 1947, Miss Cora Bomar was listed among the teachers of the elementary school under principal Mildred Mooneyhan. She had come to North Carolina that year. The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 5, 1947, p. 1
  50. The Junior Service League canvasses the Chapel Hill school district for a census About 300 volunteers under some 45 captains went house to house through Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the county areas that send children to Chapel Hill High School, in the town's first amateur census. The league of young women ran it under the university's Planning Department, with graduate student Eric Hill as supervisor and Mayor Robert W. Madry chairing the advisory committee. People: John A. Parker, Robert W. Madry Junior Service League of Chapel Hill, Population Survey and School Census of the Chapel Hill School Attendance District (1948), scan p. 3
  51. Orange County schools open after two polio postponements On the third try, the county schools and the Chapel Hill schools opened for about 4,000 county pupils, with six of seven new state buses in service; the county ran 42 buses, 33 for white and 9 for Black pupils. The superintendent counted 3,565 enrolled at the end of the first week, fewer than the year before, and the short Christmas holiday that followed was laid to the late start. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 9, 1948, p. 1 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 23, 1948, p. 1
  52. The county and Chapel Hill school boards ask for a $1 million school bond At a joint meeting with the county commissioners, the two school boards asked for a $1 million bond issue on top of the $401,000 coming from the state, proposing $600,500 of it to consolidate and close 17 one-, two- and three-teacher schools for Black children and build at Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, Efland and Cedar Grove, and the rest for white schools, including $375,000 to finish the Chapel Hill high school. The commissioners took no action; on August 1 the county board held to the figure, saying it meant equal costs for equal facilities for all races. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 14, 1949, p. 1
  53. Judge John T. Manning protests a new Chapel Hill school site outside town The Chapel Hill school board had bought land for a new elementary school on the Raleigh Road outside the town limits, and Judge John T. Manning, active in the PTA, wrote the county commissioners that wide dissatisfaction with the site, which he called dangerous, could threaten the proposed school bond. He said he would not oppose the bond on that account but wanted the situation corrected. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 4, 1949, p. 1
  54. Carrboro school committeemen oppose putting Carrboro and White Cross in the Chapel Hill school tax district Dwight Ray of the district committee and E. T. Hearn and Raymond Andrews of the Carrboro school committee told the county board of education that Carrboro preferred to stay in the county school unit and opposed a proposal, raised in September by Chapel Hill school board member Carl Smith, to enlarge the special Chapel Hill school tax district to take in Carrboro and White Cross. The county board said it was not sponsoring the idea. People: Dwight Ray, Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner) The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 14, 1950, p. 1
  55. Members of the Chapel Hill Council on Negro Affairs file a discrimination suit over the new Black high school Members of the Chapel Hill Council on Negro Affairs filed a discrimination suit in the federal Middle District Court at Greensboro, a step they had threatened since the fall of 1950, when it became known that the money on hand would not build an auditorium and gymnasium with the new school for Black students. The suit named the Chapel Hill school board, Superintendent C. W. Davis, the State Board of Education and State Superintendent Clyde Erwin. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 11, 1951, p. 8
  56. Commissioners call a November vote on enlarging the Chapel Hill school district On a petition from the Chapel Hill school trustees, approved by the county Board of Education in August, the commissioners set a November 20 election on enlarging the Chapel Hill special school district and extending its 20-cent school tax over most of Chapel Hill township. Voters had to register anew, and the League of Women Voters campaigned for registration. People: Collier Cobb Jr. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 4, 1951, p. 1
  57. The two school superintendents lay $2.4 million in building needs before the commissioners At a joint meeting of the two school boards and the county commissioners, Superintendents G. Paul Carr and Charles W. Davis presented five-year building lists totaling $1,233,000 for the county schools and $1,175,000 for the Chapel Hill schools. Carr's first need was 16 classrooms at Hillsboro Elementary, where three teachers were holding classes in hallways, while the Chapel Hill board put a gymtorium at Lincoln and a gymnasium at Chapel Hill High first. People: G. Paul Carr The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 26, 1953, p. 1
  58. State school planners urge a new Carrboro school site and a merger with the Chapel Hill unit A survey team from the State Department of Public Instruction told the county school board that the 3.5-acre Carrboro School site was inadequate and recommended buying 10 to 15 acres near the new Carrboro Methodist Church on the Hillsboro road, building a six-classroom unit there, and folding the Carrboro-White Cross district into the Chapel Hill administrative unit under one school tax. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 3, 1953, p. 1
  59. Chapel Hill voters elect members of their school board for the first time In the first popular election for the Chapel Hill school board, created as an elective body by a 1955 local act, voters in the Chapel Hill school district chose Charles F. Milner and Richard E. Jamerson over James L. Godfrey, Fred Edwards and Jack Lasley. Edwards, a Black contractor put forward by members of the Black community, received 207 votes. In the town election held the same day Mayor O. K. Cornwell was returned without opposition and Gene Strowd joined the board of aldermen. People: Richard E. Jamerson, James L. Godfrey, Oliver K. Cornwell The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 5, 1955, p. 1
  60. Rep. Umstead introduces a bill to let the Chapel Hill school district vote its own school building bonds Rep. John W. Umstead introduced an enabling act under which the county commissioners would call a bond election for school buildings in the Chapel Hill school district whenever 15 per cent of the district's voters petitioned for one. He said a new census showed the district's schools would need more room if no money came from a state or countywide bond issue. County officials said they had not been consulted, and observers read it as a way for Chapel Hill to act if the rest of the county would not vote bonds. People: G. Paul Carr The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 12, 1955, p. 1
  61. County commissioners inspect the Chapel Hill schools, including the site for a Lincoln High addition The county commissioners toured the schools of the Chapel Hill district to see their condition before acting on the Chapel Hill school board's budget requests. At Lincoln High School they looked over the site of a proposed addition with principal C. A. McDougle. The board had made a similar tour of the county schools some weeks earlier. People: Charles A. McDougle, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Edwin Sidney Lanier, Sim Efland, Dwight Ray The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 19, 1955, p. 3
  62. Chapel Hill's Citizens' Committee for Better Schools asks for a 20-cent school supplement tax Carrying a petition with more than 1,100 legible names, against 1,588 registered voters in the district, the Chapel Hill Citizens' Committee for Better Schools asked the county commissioners to levy a school supplement tax of 20 cents per $100 in the Chapel Hill school district so its schools could run above the state standard. No one spoke against it, and chairman R. J. M. Hobbs said the board would take it under consideration; in July the board set the supplement at 15 cents. People: Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner), Collier Cobb Jr., Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Charles S. Hubbard The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 9, 1955, p. 1
  63. County commissioners clash with the Chapel Hill school board over a Lincoln School gymtorium At a budget hearing commissioner Edwin S. Lanier, a former Chapel Hill mayor, opposed the Chapel Hill board's request for $100,000 to build a gymtorium at Lincoln, the town's Black high school, and to raise the district school supplement from 12 to 20 cents, urging a year's delay until the integration question was clearer, while board chairman Carl Smith and Superintendent C. W. Davis insisted the gymtorium came first. In a statement the next day Lanier said he did not favor the Supreme Court's order to combine Black and white schools and would not vote to raise taxes for new school buildings while the system's future was uncertain. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier, Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner), Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 30, 1955, p. 1
  64. County commissioners hold the 62-cent tax rate and find money for the Lincoln gymtorium The commissioners tentatively approved a 1955-56 budget of $869,720.50 at an unchanged 62-cent rate, denied all salary raises until a job classification system was adopted, set the Chapel Hill district supplement at 15 cents, and voted $34,000 in bonds, issued without a public vote and split evenly between the county and Chapel Hill school units. The Chapel Hill share brought the long-delayed gymtorium addition at Lincoln within reach of a call for bids, with commissioner Edwin S. Lanier, who days earlier had fought it, leading the fight for Chapel Hill's request. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Dwight Ray, Sim Efland, Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner) The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 7, 1955, p. 1
  65. Chapel Hill schools agree to take about 425 county pupils for 1955-56 without tuition After a three-hour joint meeting of the county and Chapel Hill school boards on August 17 failed to settle who should pay for some 425 Carrboro and White Cross children attending Chapel Hill schools outside the special tax district, the Chapel Hill board agreed to take them for the coming year without tuition. The county board called a meeting of the two districts' committeemen to seek a vote of the people. People: G. Paul Carr The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 25, 1955, p. 1
  66. Chapel Hill school board pledges to comply with Brown "to the best of our ability" Under chairman Carl Smith, the Chapel Hill school board unanimously resolved to comply with the Supreme Court's integration ruling to the best of its ability while operating its schools under the state's school laws, keeping existing assignment practices for 1955-56. Chapel Hill News Leader (DigitalNC): Racial Stand Is Taken In School Board Policy, August 18, 1955, p. 6
  67. Commissioners pass a $34,000 school bond order with no one objecting No one appeared at the public hearing on $34,000 in school building bonds, and the commissioners went ahead with the order, which needed no popular vote. The money was to go with other funds toward a new facility for the Chapel Hill unit and additions to county school buildings. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Sam M. Gattis III The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 22, 1955, p. 1
  68. County commissioners ask both school boards to plan for a school bond election Chairman R. J. M. Hobbs called the county and Chapel Hill school boards before the commissioners and asked them to study the county's school needs with a view to calling an election on a large bond issue. Chapel Hill chairman Carl Smith agreed at once and put his district's need at about a million dollars over five years; the county board, reluctant, agreed only to meet the Chapel Hill board on November 7. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner), Charles W. Stanford The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 6, 1955, p. 1
  69. Carrboro parents fill the school auditorium to debate joining the Chapel Hill school district A special meeting called by the Carrboro PTA drew parents from the Carrboro and White Cross districts for a long debate on merging the Carrboro school district with the Chapel Hill administrative unit. Speakers split over whether merger or staying with the county would bring Carrboro its long-awaited new school building sooner; County Commissioner Dwight Ray said the county had already bought 14 acres for a school site. People: Dwight Ray The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 3, 1955, p. 1
  70. County commissioners call a March 1956 vote on $2 million in school bonds After the county and Chapel Hill school boards laid out building needs they had never agreed to put into a joint request, the commissioners voted unanimously to let the people decide on March 20, 1956 whether to issue $2 million in school bonds. The money was to be split by tax valuation: $860,730 for the county schools outside Carrboro, $311,202 for Carrboro and $828,068 for the Chapel Hill unit. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier, Dwight Ray, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 10, 1955, p. 1
  71. The State Board of Education allots Orange County $204,230 from the second state school bond fund Orange County's share of the second $25 million of state school building bonds was set at $204,230.42, about $8,900 more than its share of the first $25 million, which had gone about two-thirds to the county schools and one-third to the Chapel Hill unit. Officials did not expect the money to change the $2 million county bond vote set for March. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 8, 1955, p. 1
  72. The Negro Men's Civic Club asks for a Black member on the Chapel Hill school board As the board took up a successor to chairman Carl Smith, who had resigned effective July 1, the club presented a petition with several hundred signatures asking it to name either the pastor of St. Paul's A.M.E. Church or C. F. Williams of the Negro schools advisory committee to serve until the spring election. The board instead named druggist William L. Sloan to the seat. People: Carl Smith (Chapel Hill businessman and county commissioner) The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 19, 1956, p. 8
  73. Preston R. Weaver applies to move his son from Northside School to the white Chapel Hill Elementary School Weaver, owner of Weaver's Shoe Shop on West Franklin Street, had written the Chapel Hill school board asking how his son, who had finished the third grade at Northside, could enroll at Chapel Hill Elementary; the board sent him its change-of-school application and rules with almost no comment, and he was filling out the form on July 16. One of the Black parents who had sued the board over unequal school facilities, Weaver said he was acting on his own and not for any person or group. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 19, 1956, p. 4
  74. The county and Chapel Hill school boards meet the Carrboro school committee over school taxes In what the News called the first such joint meeting in many years, the two boards and the Carrboro District School Committee took up the unequal burden of about 400 Carrboro and White Cross pupils attending Chapel Hill schools without paying its 15-cent supplementary tax. The Carrboro committee, chaired by Carl Ellington, agreed to sound out its district on voting a supplementary tax or joining the Chapel Hill special school district, but wanted work started on a new 36-classroom Carrboro school first and suggested a vote in spring 1958. People: G. Paul Carr The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 2, 1956, p. 1
  75. Carrboro PTA sets aside a merger with the Chapel Hill schools and works for a school supplement tax The Carrboro Parent-Teacher Association accepted its executive committee's report shelving a drive to merge the Carrboro and Chapel Hill school attendance areas and calling instead for an election on a supplementary school tax in the Carrboro area. The meeting also voted to help pay a music teacher for all pupils, and the Rev. Henry B. Stokes said he hoped the schools would never have to close. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 4, 1956, p. 6
  76. Carrboro's school committee asks for a 15-cent school tax vote The Carrboro District School Committee formally asked for a referendum, about June 1957, on a supplementary school tax of 15 cents per $100 to improve instruction at Carrboro School, with about a third of the yield to go to the Chapel Hill schools for Carrboro-area pupils who attended there. On December 10 the county Board of Education received the request but said it would first weigh a county-wide supplement and asked the White Cross committee to meet with it. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 6, 1956, p. 6
  77. Frances Hargraves teaches Chapel Hill's new special education classes at Northside School The Chapel Hill schools had begun special education classes, one at Chapel Hill Elementary School and one taught by Frances Hargraves at Northside School. The Junior Service League paid a $200 scholarship for her training. The Chapel Hill Weekly: Children Get New Attitude in Special Education Classes (March 5, 1957)
  78. The county school board turns down a Carrboro-only school tax vote The Orange County Board of Education refused to call a supplementary school tax election in the Carrboro district alone, telling the Carrboro committee its only sound choices were a county-wide supplement or joining the Chapel Hill city unit. Because the Carrboro committee would not back a county-wide 15-cent tax, the board called no election at all, and talks were still deadlocked in mid-May. People: G. Paul Carr, Charles W. Stanford The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 4, 1957, p. 1
  79. Chapel Hill school board keeps segregated pupil assignments for 1957-58 The Chapel Hill school board announced a resolution assigning pupils for 1957-58 to the schools they had attended the year before, which kept the town's schools racially segregated. Parents could ask for a transfer during a ten-day period, June 1 to 10, and Northside pupils promoted to the seventh grade were assigned to Lincoln High. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 30, 1957, p. 10
  80. Carrboro PTA committee asks for a vote on joining the Chapel Hill school district A Carrboro Parent-Teacher Association committee chaired by J. Walter Clark reported that the Carrboro school would gain in money and administration by leaving the county system for the Chapel Hill district, and urged the county school board to let Carrboro voters decide by October 1, 1957. A poll of PTA members had favored joining. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 6, 1957, p. 8
  81. Preston Weaver applies to move his son to Chapel Hill Elementary School Preston Weaver, a Black shoe repairman in Chapel Hill and the father of nine, formally applied to the Chapel Hill school board to have his son, who had finished the fourth grade at Northside School, admitted to the fifth grade at Chapel Hill Elementary School, then open only to white pupils. The board was investigating the application at the end of June. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 27, 1957, p. 1
  82. Commissioners authorize moving graves from the Estes Hills school tract Sitting as a board of equalization, the county commissioners passed a resolution letting the Chapel Hill school board move the graves in an abandoned cemetery on its Estes Hills school tract under the county health officer's supervision. The school board's notice said the remains, on land once owned by the heirs of Wiley J. Henderson, would be moved and reburied elsewhere after December 31, 1957. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 28, 1957, p. 4
  83. Chapel Hill Elementary pupils play carols with professional musicians at the school Christmas program At the Chapel Hill Elementary School Christmas programs on December 17, 1957, directed musically by Adeline McCall, supervisor of music in the Chapel Hill schools, children playing psalteries, violins and bells accompanied the carols with two harpists, violinist Dorothy Alden and flutist Dorothy Hickok. The programs also staged the play Alias Santa Claus. The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 20, 1957, p. 1 (Christmas program photograph)
  84. Carrboro citizens petition for a vote on joining the Chapel Hill school district A Carrboro citizens' delegation handed the county Board of Education a petition with 341 signatures asking it to have the commissioners call an election on putting the Carrboro school attendance area into the Chapel Hill special school tax district. The Carrboro district school committee, whose majority wanted a separate Carrboro tax district instead, was split, and after a tense meeting the next night board members leaned toward calling the vote. People: Charles W. Stanford The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 6, 1958, p. 1
  85. The White Cross school committee asks for a vote on joining the Chapel Hill unit Meeting with the county Board of Education in Hillsborough, the White Cross district school committee voted unanimously to ask for an election on whether the White Cross district should join the Chapel Hill city administrative unit and its special tax district. Committee members did not predict that a majority of White Cross voters would favor the change. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 13, 1958, p. 1
  86. The county school board asks for a vote on joining Carrboro and White Cross to the Chapel Hill district Without dissent the Orange County Board of Education asked the county commissioners to call an election in the Carrboro and White Cross school attendance areas on joining the Chapel Hill special school tax district. The Chapel Hill school board had already endorsed the vote by polling its members, and a delegation from Carrboro's Citizens Committee for Schools pressed for an early date. People: G. Paul Carr, Charles W. Stanford The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 6, 1958, p. 1
  87. County commissioners call the May 20 Carrboro-White Cross school merger election On their third try at a legal description of the area, the commissioners adopted the resolution calling a May 20 election on enlarging the Chapel Hill city school unit to take in the Carrboro and White Cross school districts at the Chapel Hill school tax rate. They ordered a new registration of voters and set polling places in Carrboro and White Cross. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Dwight Ray The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 10, 1958, p. 1
  88. Carrboro and White Cross voters reject joining the Chapel Hill school district In a special election that drew 1,494 of the 1,634 newly registered voters, the Carrboro and White Cross school areas voted 916 to 565 against enlarging the Chapel Hill city school unit to take them in at the Chapel Hill school tax rate. Carrboro voted 723 to 490 against; the News pointed to fear of losing Carrboro's identity, old ill will toward Chapel Hill and, in White Cross, the tax. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 22, 1958, p. 1
  89. Chapel Hill accepts the county's terms for Carrboro and White Cross pupils at $30 tuition The Chapel Hill school board approved terms the county board had proposed on June 4, ending a long deadlock after the failed merger vote: the white high school pupils and all the Black pupils of the Carrboro and White Cross areas could stay in Chapel Hill schools for 1958-59 at $30 tuition each. The Chapel Hill board's mass assignment kept existing assignments and so kept its schools segregated, and the News noted that many families, a large share of them Black, now faced tuition bills of several hundred dollars. People: G. Paul Carr The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 12, 1958, p. 1
  90. Carrboro parents, Black and white, ask the county board to release their children to Chapel Hill schools A delegation of Carrboro-area parents who had backed the failed merger met the county school board in a stormy two-hour session and asked it to release any Carrboro child of any race to the Chapel Hill schools. Spokesman John W. Clark Jr. said the best schools were across the district line, and Black parents in the group raised the question of Black children attending the Carrboro schools, where the county had no Black school. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 5, 1958, p. 1
  91. Commissioners call a second Carrboro school merger election for August 5 At the request of both the county and Chapel Hill school boards, the county commissioners called a new election, limited to the Carrboro school area, on joining the Chapel Hill city school unit and its special school tax. The same question had failed on May 20 across Carrboro and White Cross, 916 to 565; after a long silence Henry Walker moved the call and Donald McDade seconded it. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 3, 1958, p. 1
  92. County commissioners refuse the Chapel Hill school district a five-cent tax increase The commissioners turned down the Chapel Hill school board's request to raise its supplementary school tax by five cents to the legal limit of 20 cents, money meant for a junior high principal and a librarian. The News judged that the commissioners did not want to hurt the August 5 Carrboro merger vote. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 17, 1958, p. 1
  93. Carrboro voters approve merging their school district with the Chapel Hill unit On August 5, 1958 the Carrboro school district voted 713 to 303 to merge with the Chapel Hill city school unit and levy a 15-cent school tax, after a spring vote had failed. The county board sold the old Carrboro School to R. B. Todd for $30,000 in September 1959. DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 84
  94. The county school board denies Stanley Vickers a place at the white Carrboro school The Orange County Board of Education turned down the Vickers family's application, the only one it had received from Black parents, for their son to attend the new Carrboro school. The board cited ambiguity in the form, which also named Chapel Hill Elementary, and the parents' absence from the hearing, and said that after the August 5 merger vote the boy could attend Chapel Hill schools without tuition. People: Stanley Vickers The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 14, 1958, p. 1
  95. White Cross residents petition for a new vote on joining the Chapel Hill school district At a meeting called by the White Cross School PTA, residents gave county school board chairman Charles W. Stanford petitions signed by at least 220 people asking for a new election on merging the White Cross area into the Chapel Hill school district and for tuition-free places in Chapel Hill schools meanwhile. Voters had rejected the merger by more than two to one on May 20. People: Charles W. Stanford The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 28, 1958, p. 1
  96. The Chapel Hill school board lets White Cross pupils attend without tuition The Chapel Hill school board voted to waive tuition for the coming year for about 75 white and Black pupils from the White Cross attendance area, on condition that White Cross hold another referendum and vote to join the Chapel Hill special tax district as soon as one could be called. People: Charles W. Stanford The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 4, 1958, p. 1
  97. Chapel Hill school board keeps the children of visiting professors and out-of-state students The Chapel Hill school board decided that children of visiting professors and out-of-state University students would not have to leave the town's schools, despite Attorney General Malcolm Seawell's opinion that children of nonresident parents could not legally enroll. Seawell's ruling followed the enrollment in North Carolina of Virginia pupils from schools closed to avoid integration in Norfolk, Charlottesville and Front Royal; four children in Chapel Hill for treatment at N. C. Memorial Hospital were still barred under his advice. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 25, 1958, p. 10
  98. Carrboro's schools join the Chapel Hill city unit The merger Carrboro voters approved in August 1958 took effect with the 1959-60 school year, taking 462 pupils out of the Orange County system; in 1958-59 Carrboro Elementary had stayed under the county board while high school pupils and Black elementary pupils could attend Chapel Hill schools free. DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 140
  99. Chapel Hill district voters elect the Rev. J. R. Manley to the city school board In the election for three seats on the Chapel Hill City Board of Education, the Rev. J. R. Manley, a Black minister and pastor of the First Baptist Church, led the field of seven with 1,125 votes, and incumbents Henry Brandis Jr. and Grey Culbreth won the other two seats. The vote covered the Chapel Hill administrative unit and the Carrboro school attendance area. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 7, 1959, p. 1
  100. Chapel Hill school board refuses Stanley Vickers a transfer to all-white Carrboro Elementary and adopts a first-grade proximity policy The Chapel Hill City Board of Education denied ten-year-old Stanley Vickers a transfer from all-Black Northside Elementary to the nearer all-white Carrboro Elementary School, and at the same meeting adopted a policy of limited integration at the first-grade level starting with the 1960-61 year. UNC law dean Henry Brandis, who had twice moved to approve the transfer, resigned from the board in protest and called the action both morally and legally indefensible. People: Stanley Vickers, Henry P. Brandis Jr. The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 6, 1959, p. 1 · Also: Justia: Vickers v. Chapel Hill City Board of Education, 196 F. Supp. 97
  101. The county school board deeds the new Carrboro Elementary School to the Chapel Hill board for a dollar Carrying out the agreement made before the 1958 vote that put Carrboro's school in the Chapel Hill district, the Orange County Board of Education approved a $1 deed to the Chapel Hill Board of Education for the Carrboro elementary school, whose site had been pieced together from four tracts. At the same meeting it moved to auction the old Carrboro school, which the Chapel Hill board had declined, so the Town of Carrboro could buy it. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 6, 1959, p. 1
  102. White Cross voters turn down a merger with the Chapel Hill schools a second time White Cross voters defeated a merger of their school into the Chapel Hill city district, 116 to 110, a year after Carrboro had joined it; a first vote, held with Carrboro's on May 20, 1958, had failed 193 to 75. A third vote failed on April 19, 1960, and the county closed the school in 1961. The county board sold the White Cross property to Edmiston Realty Company for $14,900 in 1967. The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 13, 1959, p. 1 (continued p. 7) · Also: DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 21, 1960, p. 3
  103. Brandis returns for the Vickers hearing, then leaves the Chapel Hill school board Brandis withdrew his August 3 resignation so he could sit at the board's hearing on Stanley Vickers's transfer request on August 31. He resigned again after that meeting, and the board named a committee to find his successor. People: Stanley Vickers The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 31, 1959, p. 1
  104. White Cross's Black pupils begin the long bus ride to Central School in Hillsboro With White Cross left outside the Chapel Hill schools after the August merger vote failed, and tuition now required to attend there, 70 Black pupils from the White Cross area, grades 1 through 12, opened the term at Central School in Hillsboro, 15 miles or more from home. White pupils from the area in grades 7 and 8 were bused to Hillsboro High, and at least two families picked up transfer application forms. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 3, 1959, p. 1
  105. J. Walter Clark Jr. of Carrboro is elected to the Chapel Hill school board in Henry Brandis's seat The board chose J. Walter Clark Jr., past chairman of the Carrboro School Advisory Committee, to fill the place Henry P. Brandis Jr. gave up after the board again refused Stanley Vickers a transfer. Under board policy he was to serve until the next district election; he was sworn in on October 5. People: Henry P. Brandis Jr. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 17, 1959, p. 8
  106. Chapel Hill school board asks the town to annex the Estes Hills, Northside and Lincoln school areas The board voted to join property owners seeking annexation of the Estes Hills School area and, on the Rev. J. R. Manley's motion, to seek annexation of the Northside and Lincoln school properties, whose neighborhoods had asked to join Chapel Hill. In November the aldermen called a hearing on the 42-acre Northside area, which the News said held land of interest for a federal low-rent housing project. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 8, 1959, p. 10
  107. Chapel Hill school board moves high school baccalaureate services out of the churches After Rabbi Efraim Rosenzweig asked the board to restudy services he found doctrinal in tone, it adopted its policy committee's suggestion that, because of the student body's mixed makeup, baccalaureates be held on school premises or in public auditoriums, stay optional, and be planned by the principal and superintendent. The rabbi and the Rev. Vance Barron both welcomed the change. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 8, 1959, p. 8
  108. Chapel Hill-Carrboro ministers endorse the school board's first-grade desegregation policy Speaking for the Ministerial Association of Chapel Hill-Carrboro, vice president the Rev. Loren Mead of the Church of the Holy Family told the school board the ministers backed its policy to look with favor on first-grade reassignment requests in 1960 and offered to help prepare public opinion, citing the association's interracial summer Bible school. Board chairman J. Kempton Jones said the board would consult them if it named a committee. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 8, 1959, p. 8
  109. Chapel Hill school board lets a $133,000 contract for an eight-classroom Glenwood School wing The Chapel Hill school board let a $133,000 contract to O. G. Thompson of Burlington, builder of the first Glenwood buildings, for an eight-classroom wing, leaving a covered walkway and other items to be added from next year's funds. It hoped to have the wing ready for the fall term. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 28, 1960, p. 9
  110. Chapel Hill residents organize the Vickers Appeal Fund Supporters in Chapel Hill organized the Vickers Appeal Fund to back Stanley Vickers's federal desegregation suit against the Chapel Hill school board. The News saw its main purpose as giving legal weight to the suit's claim that the community supported desegregation. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 25, 1960, p. 9
  111. Citizens groups press the Chapel Hill school board to adopt the Quaker plan In a two-hour public hearing, the Chapel Hill Friends, twenty ministers, the League of Women Voters, Community Church members and the board's own Citizens Advisory Committee urged the school board to assign first graders by geographic district rather than leave Black families to apply for transfer. The board sent the plan to its redistricting committee, and the News judged a change unlikely. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 4, 1960, p. 10
  112. The Vickers family files its federal suit against the Chapel Hill City Board of Education Suing through his parents, Stanley Vickers asked the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina to declare his right to attend the public schools without racial discrimination. After the board turned down his June 1960 application to Chapel Hill Junior High, the complaint was amended to seek that school, and the case was tried on October 5, 1960. Caselaw Access Project: Vickers v. Chapel Hill City Board of Education, 196 F. Supp. 97 (M.D.N.C. 1961)
  113. Federal court refuses to throw out the Vickers school suit but drops the board members as defendants Ruling on the Chapel Hill school board's motions, Judge Edwin Stanley declined to dismiss Stanley Vickers's desegregation suit, though he said class actions had not been upheld in the circuit, and he dismissed the suit against the six board members as individuals. He gave the board until May 5 to answer, which meant the boy would not enter all-white Carrboro Elementary that year. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 7, 1960, p. 10
  114. White Cross voters reject joining the Chapel Hill school district a third time Voters in the White Cross school area turned down merger with the Chapel Hill district for the third time, about three to two, with 301 votes against and 507 of 538 registered voters taking part. The area stayed in the county system, so its pupils could attend Chapel Hill schools only by paying tuition, without bus service. People: G. Paul Carr The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 21, 1960, p. 3
  115. The League of Women Voters publishes a study of pupil assignment in the Chapel Hill schools The Chapel Hill League of Women Voters printed 1,500 copies of Facts on Pupil Assignment in the Chapel Hill School District, a year-long study, and gave them to churches, the Community Council and school board members. The seven-page booklet set out the Supreme Court school rulings, the state pupil assignment acts, the board's policy and the plans offered by local groups, with a summary of desegregation so far in Chapel Hill. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 19, 1960, p. 6
  116. The Chapel Hill school board keeps its pupil assignment policy and rejects the Quaker Plan By a four-to-two vote the Chapel Hill school board kept its policy letting first graders seek reassignment to the nearest school, which in practice kept the schools segregated unless Black parents applied for transfers. It rejected a minority report by board member the Rev. J. R. Manley urging the Quaker Plan of geographic first-grade assignment, which Manley said placed an undue burden on Black parents; Charles Milner voted with him. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 26, 1960, p. 14
  117. Chapel Hill school board admits its first Black pupils to a white school, three first graders at Estes Hills Elementary Acting under its new proximity policy, the board voted unanimously to grant three of twelve Black reassignment applications for the 1960-61 first grade at previously all-white Estes Hills Elementary School. Applications to transfer to the white junior high school, including Stanley Vickers's, were refused. People: Stanley Vickers Civil Rights Movement Archive: Civil Rights U.S.A., Public Schools Southern States 1962 (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights)
  118. The Chapel Hill school board turns down five Black pupils' appeals for the white junior high At a formal hearing the Chapel Hill school board rejected the appeals of five Black pupils assigned to Lincoln who sought transfer to the white Chapel Hill Junior High School, mostly because it was nearer their homes. The board had granted three first-grade transfers to Estes Hills a month earlier, and the News expected the denials to end up in federal court. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 28, 1960, p. 12
  119. The Vickers suit is amended to seek a place at Chapel Hill Junior High NAACP lawyer Conrad O. Pearson filed a supplemental complaint in Stanley Vickers's federal desegregation suit, saying the Carrboro pupil, now a rising seventh grader, had been assigned to all-Black Lincoln Junior High because of his race and asking for his transfer to Chapel Hill Junior High. On August 17 the Chapel Hill school board moved to strike much of it as an improper class action. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 18, 1960, p. 1
  120. Three Black first graders enter Estes Hills Elementary School On the opening day of the Chapel Hill schools three Black first graders enrolled at Estes Hills Elementary School under the first-grade assignment policy the board had adopted a year before; the News called them the first of their race to enroll in the local system on a desegregated basis. The paper reported that the day passed quietly, with no protest. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 8, 1960, p. 1
  121. Black parents from White Cross ask the Chapel Hill schools to take their children A delegation of Black parents from the White Cross attendance area asked the Chapel Hill school board to let their children attend Northside School in Chapel Hill without the $50 out-of-district tuition. Their spokeswoman said that under the two boards' joint policy some of the children had ridden more than 100 miles a day by bus to Central School in Hillsboro since the year before. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 15, 1960, p. 7
  122. County commissioners call a $1.5 million school bond vote for February Acting on requests from both the county and Chapel Hill school boards, the county commissioners unanimously resolved to hold a $1.5 million school construction bond election in February 1961, as the county-wide Citizens School Finance Study Committee had urged. The exact date was left to the bond attorneys. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 10, 1960, p. 4
  123. Northside School's PTA opposes a new site for a Black elementary school At a special meeting the Northside School Parent-Teacher Association voted overwhelmingly against the Chapel Hill school board's plan to build a new Black elementary school on South Merritt Mill Road across from Lincoln High School, saying it would prolong segregation, and asked that the school be built at the Northside site instead. Dr. Richard Peters, whose citizens group had proposed an eight- to ten-room wing at Northside, attended by invitation. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 1, 1960, p. 12
  124. Final arguments are heard in Stanley Vickers's suit against the Chapel Hill schools Judge Edwin Stanley heard final arguments in federal court in Durham on the two-year-old case seeking Vickers's transfer from Lincoln Junior High to the white Chapel Hill Junior High. School board attorney J. Q. LeGrand called the case weak and said the board had followed the Pupil Assignment Act; New York attorney Derrick Bell argued that geography played little part in the board's assignments. People: Stanley Vickers The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 22, 1960, p. 3
  125. The Chapel Hill school board puts a Smith Level school and a new junior high at the top of its building list By a 4-3 vote, with chairman J. Kempton Jones breaking the tie, the board adopted J. Walter Clark's plan: first, a new elementary school on the Smith Level Road site, removal of substandard classrooms at Northside and a better Northside cafeteria; second, an all-new junior high on a new site, perhaps part of the Estes Hills tract. About 50 people of both races watched. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 9, 1961, p. 8
  126. The Chapel Hill school board hires John D. Latimer and Associates to design a new junior high The board named the Durham firm of John D. Latimer and Associates, chosen from 45 firms by a seven-member committee, to design the proposed junior high school, subject to the outcome of the March 18 bond vote. It also backed widening Merritt Mill Road past Lincoln High School. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 9, 1961, p. 6
  127. Orange County voters approve the $1.5 million school bond issue Orange County voters approved the $1.5 million school building bond issue by almost two to one, 2,836 to 1,513, with about 28 per cent of the 15,498 registered voters casting ballots. All 13 rural precincts voted against it and eight of the nine town boxes for it; Chapel Hill's five precincts voted 2,057 to 263 in favor, while Carrboro voted 253 to 198 against. The bonds provided $840,000 for the Chapel Hill schools and $660,000 for the county system, including a new consolidated high school in northern Orange. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 23, 1961, p. 2
  128. Carrboro Elementary adopts the ungraded primary plan The Chapel Hill school board approved replacing the first three grades at Carrboro Elementary School, beginning in the fall of 1961, with nine levels through which each child would move at his own pace. The News called it the first elementary school in Orange County to adopt the plan. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 4, 1961, p. 9
  129. After closing White Cross School, the county board lets its pupils go to Alamance and Chapel Hill schools At a stormy meeting the Orange County Board of Education released 25 White Cross area pupils to attend Eli Whitney School in Alamance County and ten to the Chapel Hill schools, if parents furnished transportation, and asked the state to fold the White Cross district into the Hillsboro district. It took under advisement petitions for a fourth vote on joining part of the area to the Chapel Hill school district. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 1, 1961, p. 8
  130. The Chapel Hill school board puts its new junior high on the Estes Hills School grounds The board chose part of the 36-acre Estes Hills School site north of town for a new $700,000 junior high school for about 750 pupils, as the state's Division of School Planning and architect John D. Latimer had advised, with construction expected to begin in the fall. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 1, 1961, p. 6
  131. Architect Herman H. Babb dies after collapsing at a Chapel Hill school board meeting Chapel Hill architect Herman H. Babb was stricken with a cerebral attack while going over plans for a new school building his firm was designing at the school board's Friday night meeting, and he died three hours later. He left his wife and three young children. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 13, 1961, p. 12
  132. The Chapel Hill school board admits a Black eighth grader to the white junior high and fixes first-grade districts At a special meeting that ran past midnight, the board voted four to one to transfer a 14-year-old Black eighth grader from Lincoln Junior High to Chapel Hill Junior High, the school nearest his home, and turned down two other Black pupils' requests as not for the good of the child. It also fixed the first-grade attendance areas under its new geographic plan, which would place about 40 Black first graders in mostly white schools and about 14 white children at Northside. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 13, 1961, p. 3
  133. Federal court rules Chapel Hill denied Stanley Vickers a junior high transfer because of his race Chief Judge Edwin M. Stanley of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina held that the Chapel Hill City Board of Education had refused Vickers reassignment to all-white Chapel Hill Junior High School on account of race and that he was entitled to be admitted there for the 1961-62 school year. The suit had been filed on February 2, 1960 and tried on October 5, 1960. People: Stanley Vickers Justia: Vickers v. Chapel Hill City Board of Education, 196 F. Supp. 97 (M.D.N.C. 1961)
  134. Chapel Hill school board recommends a Pearsall Plan tuition grant Finding it neither reasonable nor practical to reassign a Carrboro parent's two daughters to a school attended only by their own race, the board recommended that the state pay their tuition at a private Durham school. The News called it North Carolina's first formal application under the 1956 tuition-grant provision. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 28, 1961, p. 3
  135. Chapel Hill schools begin a state experiment for exceptionally talented pupils With two of the 20 teachers the state allotted for its new program, the school board assigned teachers to give accelerated arithmetic and reading to selected fourth, fifth and sixth graders at the Glenwood, Estes Hills and Carrboro schools. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 5, 1961, p. 21
  136. Chapel Hill's Citizens' Committee begins a study of the high school curriculum The Citizens' Committee, which advised the Chapel Hill school board, began a preliminary study of the high school curriculum at both Chapel Hill High and Lincoln High, starting with a letter survey of recent graduates; possible later topics included extracurricular activities and classroom television. Ralph Howard chaired the subcommittee and Herbert Reichert the full committee, and a first report was due in May 1962. Chapel Hill High School student newspaper, December 8, 1961, p. 1
  137. Chapel Hill school board cuts teacher supplements to end a budget deficit Facing a deficit of about $26,000 after learning it had no power to borrow, the Chapel Hill School Board cut each teacher's local salary supplement by $200, released pregnant teachers without replacing them and made other savings; the county commissioners quickly approved the amended budget when chairman J. Kempton Jones presented it. About 135 teachers lost part of their supplements. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 8, 1962, p. 4
  138. A citywide PTA meeting takes up the Chapel Hill schools' budget shortfall A citywide PTA meeting on the city schools' finances heard county commissioners' chairman Don Stanford, Donald Hayman of the Institute of Government and school board member Fred Ellis explain a budget that had fallen $26,000 short, leading the board to leave three junior high posts unfilled and cut each teacher's local supplement by $200. The junior high student council pledged money toward keeping teachers, and citizens proposed gifts through the Art Guild or the PTA Council to restore the supplements. Chapel Hill High School student newspaper, February 16, 1962, p. 4
  139. Carrboro Lions Club ends the Chapel Hill schools' use of Lions Park Saying the school system had not kept up the field or paid for its use, the Carrboro Lions Club cancelled its five-year-old $1-a-year lease of Lions Park for Chapel Hill school football and baseball. The school board accepted the cancellation but would not sign a new agreement costing about $1,200 a year for lack of money, so its teams faced playing every game away from home. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 8, 1962, p. 12
  140. Chapel Hill school board names its new elementary school for Frank Porter Graham Meeting in executive session, the Chapel Hill School Board named the new 12-classroom school going up on the southwest bypass near Smith Level Road for Frank Porter Graham, former president of the Consolidated University; chairman J. Kempton Jones announced it after Graham, then a United Nations mediator, agreed by telephone. A News editorial had urged the name after, it said, some white residents objected to naming for their neighborhood a school they expected to serve mostly Black pupils. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 8, 1962, p. 12
  141. Joseph Johnston resigns as Chapel Hill school superintendent Joseph Johnston resigned after five years as superintendent of the Chapel Hill schools, keeping his reasons to himself. The News credited him with the ungraded primary, new ways of teaching mathematics and physics, elementary foreign language classes and more support for slow learners. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 29, 1962, p. 15
  142. Chapel Hill school board votes to auction its downtown school land At a special meeting the Chapel Hill school board declared its ten acres on West Franklin Street undesirable for school purposes, voted to offer the land at public auction and asked that all of it be rezoned for business. The board meant to use the money to move the high school and junior high to a larger site. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 3, 1962, p. 4
  143. Chapel Hill school board names Woodrow Edmonds first principal of Frank Porter Graham School Meeting in executive session, the board chose Woodrow W. Edmonds, a North Carolina College graduate and former New Hanover County principal, as the first principal of the 360-pupil Frank Porter Graham Elementary School then being built. It also named Sarah West, a Glenwood teacher since 1953, principal of Glenwood during Ben Battle's leave. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 17, 1962, p. 3
  144. Chapel Hill school board assigns all six elementary grades by residence Extending the first-grade plan of 1961, the board assigned pupils in grades one through six to the school serving the attendance area where they lived, under five elementary areas. Parents could ask for reassignment, and the board said it would grant requests when a child would be in a school where most pupils were of the other race or that had mainly served the other race. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 19, 1962, p. 20
  145. Chapel Hill school board grants 116 reassignments, sending eight Black pupils to Chapel Hill Junior High The board granted 116 of the 190 reassignment requests filed under its new plan, most of them moving white pupils assigned to Northside and Frank Porter Graham to Carrboro and some Black pupils in mainly white areas to Northside and Frank Porter Graham. It let eight Black children attend Chapel Hill Junior High because they lived closer to it than to Lincoln, denied 28 requests and redrew the Carrboro attendance-area lines. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 16, 1962, p. 8
  146. Chapel Hill school board denies the reassignment appeals of Black pupils represented by Floyd McKissick The board turned down the appeals of 14 pupils who had been refused transfers under its new plan. Appeals for Black pupils whose parents were represented by NAACP attorney Floyd McKissick were denied unanimously, as were those of white pupils at the south end of Smith Level Road, and federal court action for at least five of the Black children was threatened. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 20, 1962, p. 18
  147. The Chapel Hill school board votes to add teaching about communism The Chapel Hill Board of Education voted to add instruction about communism to the public school curriculum after Superintendent Howard Thompson reported on the State Department of Public Instruction's recommendations. The board planned an in-service course for teachers first and meant to bring the subject into English, art and other fields as well as social studies. Chapel Hill High School student newspaper, January 17, 1963, p. 1
  148. Seven Black pupils refused transfers in 1962 are moved to mostly white Chapel Hill schools All seven Black pupils whom the Chapel Hill school board had refused the summer before to reassign to predominantly white schools were granted the transfers, ending NAACP attorney Floyd McKissick's appeal before it was perfected. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 14, 1963, p. 1
  149. The Chapel Hill school board adopts a pupil assignment policy that makes no mention of race The board's 1963-64 policy assigned pupils by where they lived, available classroom space and reasonably equal class sizes, which the News described as basic freedom of choice subject to space, without any reference to race. Under the year's geographic plan about 40 Black pupils were attending mostly white schools, fewer than the year before. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 14, 1963, p. 16
  150. A planning study projects Chapel Hill school growth to 1980 John Scott of the Research Triangle Planning Commission told the Chapel Hill School Board that district enrollment could reach 8,000 pupils by 1980, more than double the current number, and cited a 1960 township population of 25,000. The study, made for the Chapel Hill Planning Board and the Chapel Hill City Board of Education jointly, was issued as Schools, 1970-1980 (June 1963), and the School Board examined the finished projection on July 24, 1963. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 16, 1963, p. 2 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 28, 1963, p. 1; The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 25, 1963, p. 3
  151. The Chapel Hill Fellowship for School Integration raises scholarships for a new preschool summer class After the Chapel Hill Board of Education added a preschool readiness class to its summer session for the first time, the interracial Fellowship for School Integration began a fund drive for scholarships covering all or part of the $45 tuition. The Fellowship, active since 1954, wanted Black and white children to meet before first grade. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 2, 1963, p. 4
  152. Chapel Hill school board voters elect Edwin Tenney Jr. and Ben Perry Edwin W. Tenney Jr., with 1,512 votes, and Ben Perry, with 1,393, won the two six-year seats among six first-time candidates; 3,314 of 6,246 registered voters cast ballots. They succeeded Dr. J. Kempton Jones and Mrs. Marvin Allen, members since the first board election in 1957. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 9, 1963, p. 4
  153. The Chapel Hill school board starts toward selling its downtown high school to build a new one The board authorized its members to look for a site for a new high school and named a committee to recommend an architect, planning to pay for it by auctioning the 10-acre downtown property that held the high school and junior high. It also asked the town to annex the Lincoln High School property south of Carrboro so the school could get sidewalks and street lights. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 8, 1963, p. 3
  154. UNC trustees turn down the Chapel Hill school board's bid for a high school site on airport land The University trustees rejected the Chapel Hill school board's proposal to buy a site for a new senior high school on University airport property north of town, citing a policy against selling any of its land at that time. The board hoped to pay for a new high school by selling its 10-acre downtown West Franklin Street school tract. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 14, 1963, p. 8
  155. The Chapel Hill school board orders its downtown school property put up for auction again On Monday, December 9, the Chapel Hill school board ordered the 10-acre downtown school property on West Franklin Street advertised again for public auction, after chairman Grey Culbreth reported new interest from buyers who wanted it for business use. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 12, 1963, p. 6
  156. Gloria Williams asks the school board to readmit boycotting Lincoln High students At the Chapel Hill school board meeting, Mrs. Gloria Williams, speaking for parents of students who had joined the Chapel Hill Freedom Committee's boycott of Lincoln High School, asked that all of them be readmitted. The board upheld the expulsion of two senior leaders, Henry Sanford and James Brittain, after Superintendent Howard Thompson said he would resign if they returned. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 27, 1964, p. 2
  157. The Chapel Hill school board chooses an eight-room wing at Carrboro School over enlarging Frank Graham School The Chapel Hill school board decided at its February 24 meeting to add eight classrooms to Carrboro Elementary School, following the building's original plans, rather than 12 rooms at the three-year-old all-Black Frank Graham School on Smith Level Road. Most of the 50 patrons at a January 27 hearing had favored the Graham addition, which some citizens saw as a step toward integration, while The News backed the board's neighborhood-school reasoning. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 27, 1964, p. 13
  158. The Chapel Hill school board sells its downtown school property for $1 million The Chapel Hill School Board signed a $1 million contract selling its 10-acre mid-town school property on West Franklin Street to Durham builder Bobby Roberts for business development. The money was to go toward a new senior high school on a 120-acre site two miles north of town. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 18, 1964, p. 13
  159. Chapel Hill school board approves preliminary plans for a new senior high school The Chapel Hill School Board approved preliminary plans for a $1.3 million senior high school for 1,200 pupils on a 120-acre site two miles north of town, nearly a copy of Greensboro's Ben L. Smith High School. Construction was expected in the spring and occupancy by September 1966, when the old Franklin Street school property had to be vacated. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 3, 1964, p. 1
  160. Chapel Hill school board lets contracts for an eight-classroom addition to Carrboro Elementary The Chapel Hill School Board awarded $136,270 in contracts, led by general contractor Van Thomas of Siler City, for an eight-classroom, flat-roofed addition to the six-year-old Carrboro Elementary School, to be rushed for use before the end of the school year. The job also enlarged the school library. The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 3, 1964, p. 4
  161. Northside Elementary closes after the school system integrates The Caldwell Street school closed soon after the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools began mandatory integration in 1966, and the building was turned into office space. It was still holding classes in December 1966, when the Daily Tar Heel reported on a special education class in Northside School. The Daily Tar Heel: Cammie Bellamy, New school, old ground (July 16, 2013) · Also: From the Rock Wall: A Note on "Northside"; Open Orange: 350 Caldwell St. / Orange County Training School; The Daily Tar Heel, December 15, 1966, p. 1
  162. Orange County voters approve $3 million in school bonds for the county and Chapel Hill units In 1967 voters approved a $3,000,000 school building bond, with $1,000,000 for the Orange County schools and $2,000,000 for the Chapel Hill schools. It was the third school bond passed during Superintendent Carr's tenure. DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 137
  163. Chapel Hill voters elect Neill Rosser and Paul Gutherie Jr. to the city school board In the town election, Neill Rosser and Paul Gutherie Jr. won seats on the Chapel Hill City Board of Education. Incumbent Dr. Richard Peters lost, as did Mrs. William J. Koch, Francis DeFriess, Werner Hausler and C. A. Houck. People: Werner Hausler The Daily Tar Heel, May 4, 1967, p. 1
  164. Chapel Hill elects Silver, Billingsley, Holton and Weatherly to the school board Choosing four Chapel Hill school board members from nine candidates, voters elected Marvin Silver, Everett Billingsley, Samuel Holton and Norman Weatherly, the only incumbent in the race. Two six-year terms, one four-year term and one two-year term were open. The Daily Tar Heel, May 8, 1969, p. 1
  165. Superintendent Carr's final report recommends studying a merger of the county and Chapel Hill school units In his closing report to the State Superintendent in 1969, G. Paul Carr asked the board to have outside educators study combining the county and Chapel Hill units. He also urged a supplementary school tax, written board policies, kindergartens for all children, a return to six-grade elementary schools and special education at the high school. People: G. Paul Carr DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 142
  166. Chapel Hill school board bars private sales in the schools after a pupil sells an underground paper Responding to a seventh-grader's sales of the radical Protean Radish at Grey Culbreth Junior High, which had brought a three-day suspension on October 21, the Chapel Hill Board of Education ruled that only school-sponsored groups could sell or solicit in the schools, with exceptions needing its approval. The board left pupils free to form a club and referred that to Superintendent Wilmer Cody and principal W. W. Edmonds. The Daily Tar Heel, November 5, 1969, p. 1
  167. Chapel Hill school board reprimands a high school teacher after Black students' complaint At the November 3 board meeting, packed by about 110 people, Black Chapel Hill High students demanded the firing of a part-time Spanish teacher who, they said, had called a Black student a racial slur on October 22; he admitted losing his temper but denied the name-calling. After a Saturday hearing at Carrboro Auditorium the board reprimanded him and put him on probation for belligerent, insulting and profane language but kept him on. The Daily Tar Heel, November 9, 1969, p. 1
  168. About 500 Black parents and students take their grievances to the school board at First Baptist Church Joined by about 50 white residents, Black parents and students packed First Baptist Church on Wednesday night to tell the Chapel Hill school board of unequal treatment and harassment at Chapel Hill High and to ask amnesty for the students facing charges. Chairman Roy Lindahl refused amnesty but delayed the warrants, and the next night the board held them back pending investigation while ordering strong discipline; about 350 students stayed out in a partial boycott. People: Howard N. Lee The Daily Tar Heel, November 14, 1969, p. 1
  169. The Chapel Hill school board answers Black students' demands and the boycott of Chapel Hill High ends Meeting in special session on Sunday, the board promised a biracial grievance committee of parents, teachers and students and renewed efforts to hire Black teachers and secretaries, but refused all-Black homerooms and assemblies and said all the Lincoln High trophies were already on display. Its replies went to students and parents on Monday as Black students ended the boycott begun after the November 11 disturbance. People: Howard N. Lee The Daily Tar Heel, November 18, 1969, p. 1
  170. The N.C. Civil Liberties Union challenges the Chapel Hill school board's ban on selling newspapers Law professors Dan Pollitt of UNC and Hal Lieberman of North Carolina Central University, for the N.C. Civil Liberties Union, asked the Chapel Hill school board to let a Grey Culbreth Junior High pupil's Free Press club sell newspapers, the Protean Radish among them, beside a refreshment stand on school grounds. The board sent their memorandum of court cases to its lawyer, and Superintendent Wilmer Cody said no decision would come before April 6. The Daily Tar Heel, March 11, 1970, p. 1
  171. Students, parents and teachers march on the Chapel Hill school board over teacher dismissals About 125 students, parents and teachers walked several blocks in a driving rain to the Chapel Hill school board's June 5 meeting and broke in to protest the ending of four teachers' contracts; after 20 minutes the board voted to adjourn and all but one member walked out. The administration had ended 12 teachers' contracts that year; the four who appealed had refused a hearing that barred their lawyers and community representatives. The Daily Tar Heel, June 11, 1970, p. 2
  172. A father sues the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools over a pupil's suspension for selling the Protean Radish The father of an 11-year-old suspended from Grey Culbreth Junior High in October 1969 for selling the radical paper the Protean Radish filed a $50,000 suit in U.S. Middle District Court asking that the school's rule against selling papers be declared unconstitutional and the boy's record cleared. The defendants were superintendent Wilmer Cody, principal Woodrow W. Edmonds and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education. The Daily Tar Heel, September 15, 1970, p. 14
  173. Firebombs burn the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools' administration building and hit the Institute of Pharmacy Late on the night of the Cates verdict, firebombs thrown through windows started fires at the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools administration building and the Institute of Pharmacy. Firemen fought the school offices fire for an hour and a half after it broke through the roof; damage there was finally put at $117,000, while the Institute had minor damage. The Daily Tar Heel, April 6, 1971, p. 1
  174. Insurer cancels fire coverage for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools after the firebombings After the late-March fires that did $117,000 damage to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools administration building, the April 13 firebombing of a Chapel Hill High School classroom and a suspected arson that did $1,600 damage at Lincoln School, the Maryland Casualty Insurance Company canceled the school system's fire insurance. The Daily Tar Heel, April 27, 1971, p. 1
  175. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools win a $268,000 federal grant for remedial reading The Chapel Hill-Carrboro city schools received a one-year $268,000 grant under the federal Emergency School Assistance Act for remedial reading in all their elementary and junior high schools, paying for 24 new positions, including ten reading teachers and seven elementary guidance counselors, and the Wisconsin Reading Design. Children reading below grade level were to get an hour of reading instruction a day; a high school part of the January application was cut. The Daily Tar Heel, June 28, 1973, p. 3
  176. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board plans its $1.27 million share of the state school bonds Ahead of the November 6 statewide school bond vote, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education decided how it would spend its expected $1,266,844 share: $501,845 for a high school auditorium, classrooms and rooms at Seawell, Ephesus Road, Frank Porter Graham and Phillips schools, renovated adult classrooms at Lincoln Center, and warehouse and office space. The Daily Tar Heel, October 22, 1973, p. 1
  177. Voters re-elect Edwin Caldwell and Norman Weatherly and elect Marie Peachee Wicker to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board Incumbents Edwin Caldwell, the board's only Black member and director of Orange County Comprehensive Health Services, and UNC parasitology professor Norman Weatherly won the two six-year seats on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education over IBM technician Ray Prime. Former Recreation Commission chairman Marie Peachee Wicker beat research specialist Roger Evans for the two-year seat. The Daily Tar Heel, November 7, 1973, p. 1
  178. Ridgefield parents press the school board to act on racism in the schools Black parents from the Ridgefield townhouse community told a Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board meeting that racism persisted in the schools, citing incidents at Ephesus Road Elementary, including Black children singled out for receiving free lunches, and demanded action. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), February 1974, p. 8
  179. NOW and Lollipop Power take a study of sex bias in textbooks to the Chapel Hill schools Members of the National Organization for Women and the feminist press Lollipop Power, led by Miriam Slifkin, presented the superintendent of schools with the findings of a NOW task force that had searched the textbooks used in Chapel Hill schools for sexual bias. By NOW's account a workshop for guidance counselors on biased textbooks followed several months later. People: Miriam Slifkin The Daily Tar Heel, September 19, 1975, p. 2
  180. Phyllis Sockwell and James Riddle unseat both incumbents on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board Challengers Phyllis Sockwell (5,096 votes) and James Riddle (3,799) defeated incumbents Peachee Wicker and Samuel Holton for the two open seats on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education. Board members pointed to a public split over closed board meetings, which Wicker had opposed and Holton defended. People: Samuel M. Holton The Daily Tar Heel, November 6, 1975, p. 2
  181. Oscar Compton wins a second term on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education Farmer Oscar Compton was re-elected to a second six-year term on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education, defeating John David Wagner 2,031 to 1,716 in the Democratic primary, the closest race in the county. With no Republican running, the primary settled the seat. The Daily Tar Heel, August 27, 1976, p. 3
  182. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools add adult bus drivers and monitors after a spring bus accident After a school bus accident in the spring of 1976, the school system changed its bus operation, adding adult drivers and bus monitors and requiring twelve hours of behind-the-wheel training. By October only six of the thirty-six routes had adult drivers, students drove the rest, and the shortage forced cuts in activity bus trips. Chapel Hill High School student newspaper, October 18, 1976, p. 3
  183. Durham Technical Institute holds night classes at Chapel Hill High and Lincoln Center Durham Technical Institute, working with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, held Tuesday and Thursday night classes at Chapel Hill High School and Lincoln Center: an adult high school diploma program, a high school equivalency (GED) program, and vocational and interest courses such as auto mechanics, woodworking, sewing, cake decorating, typing, shorthand and real estate. The school paper reported high enrollment. Chapel Hill High School student newspaper, November 18, 1976, p. 1
  184. The PTA Thrift Shop turns $61,479 in profits over to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools The PTA Thrift Shop on Franklin Street, which had been operating for 20 years with 12 paid workers and donations from bins around both towns, gave all of its $61,479 profit for the year to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools. The Daily Tar Heel, March 17, 1978, p. 9
  185. Type-B influenza sweeps the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools A flu identified as the B type, first noticed at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center on January 14, spread within a week to all nine Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools and three private schools. It peaked on January 18, when 225 of 780 students at Guy B. Phillips Junior High were absent, then reached the University, where it waned by early February without becoming an epidemic. The Daily Tar Heel, January 26, 1977, p. 3
  186. Ted Parrish wins a seat on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board Ted Parrish, a key organizer of the Pine Knolls Tutorial Program, won one of three open seats on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education, one of four Black candidates elected locally that day. Black Ink (Black Student Movement, UNC), November 22, 1977, p. 2
  187. Phyllis Sockwell and Ed Caldwell lead the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board voting Board chairman Phyllis Sockwell (5,198 votes) and vice chairman Ed Caldwell (4,284) led the nine-candidate school board race. Former teacher Barbara Thornton and Campus Y director Edith Elliott won first terms, and Jim Riddle, finishing fifth, took the two years left in William Strickland's term. Appointed member Marge Hill lost. The Daily Tar Heel, November 7, 1979, p. 2
  188. Federal cuts halve reduced-price school lunch participation in Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools After federal cuts to the school lunch program in fall 1981, the number of Chapel Hill-Carrboro pupils in the reduced-price lunch program fell from 150 to 75, and overall participation dropped 29 percent in the first days of school; the system cut to one server per line. The Daily Tar Heel, November 6, 1981, p. 1
  189. Verla Insko, Ann Wileman and Ted Parrish win Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board seats In the November 3, 1981, election for three seats on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education, Verla Insko led with 3,487 votes, followed by Ann Wileman with 3,334 and Ted Parrish with 2,921, ahead of Wallace Hill, Ron Strom, Julio George, Harold Black and Louis Serotkin. The Daily Tar Heel, November 4, 1981, p. 2
  190. UNC and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools trade a music professor and a music teacher During the 1982-83 school year UNC music professor Edward Bostley taught music to elementary school children while Pat Beyle, a music teacher at Estes Hills and Brentwood elementary schools, lectured to future music teachers at the University on Tuesdays and Thursdays, in a voluntary exchange between UNC and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. The Daily Tar Heel, March 29, 1983, p. 1
  191. Voters elect Baker, Horn, Wiggins and Lotchin to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board On November 8, 1983, Chapel Hill and Carrboro voters elected Dorothy Sue Baker (4,653 votes), president of the PTA council, former Chapel Hill High math teacher Carolyn Horn, incumbent Edith Elliott Wiggins and Phyllis Lotchin to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education; Fred Battle finished fifth. Chairman Edwin Caldwell Jr. and two other members did not run, and only 24.5 percent of registered voters took part. People: Fred Battle The Daily Tar Heel, November 9, 1983, p. 3
  192. Fred Battle serves on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board Fred Battle served on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools board of education from 1985 to 1989. The Daily Tar Heel, March 1, 2006, p. 4
  193. Snow and record cold close the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools One to two inches of snow fell on Chapel Hill and Carrboro early on Sunday, January 20, and the next morning the temperature at Raleigh-Durham Airport fell to 9 below zero, the coldest the area had recorded; the old record was 2 below, set on February 14, 1899. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools closed on the 21st, the two towns' police counted 28 to 30 weather-related wrecks, and icy roads and balky buses cut some Chapel Hill Transit service, while the University kept classes going. The Daily Tar Heel, January 22, 1985, p. 3
  194. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools begin calling home about absent pupils After an Ephesus Road Elementary School pupil disappeared on her way to school and was found dead, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school system asked parents at all its schools to telephone when their children would be absent and began reaching at home or at work the parents of any absent pupil who had not called, said Henrietta Huffines, assistant to the superintendent; the system was also considering answering machines. The Daily Tar Heel, February 5, 1985, p. 1
  195. The PTA Thrift Shops clear $250,202 for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools The PTA Thrift Shops in Carrboro and Kroger Plaza made $250,202 in profit after operating expenses in the year ending June 30, 1985, to be divided among nine Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools for library books, playground equipment, computers and other things state and county funds did not cover. The Daily Tar Heel, September 11, 1985, p. 3
  196. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board receives a four-year plan for learning disability services An advisory committee gave the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education the second phase of its learning disability report, proposing 27.5 new positions over four years, beginning with nine at $240,000; the board said it would be studied, not voted on. The Daily Tar Heel, February 26, 1986, p. 5
  197. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board ends paired principals at its junior high schools At a meeting that ran past midnight, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education ended the four-year-old system of co-principals at its two junior high schools as of July 1, naming Woody Edmonds sole principal of Grey Culbreth Junior High and moving Jenny Kitzmiller to head Guy B. Phillips Junior High. The two co-principals at Phillips were to lose their posts in June. The Daily Tar Heel, April 15, 1986, p. 2
  198. Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools spend $3,145 per pupil The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools spent $3,145 per student in 1985-86, about $900 below the national average, and planned a $1.8 million project for new buildings at Estes Hills and Glenwood elementary schools paid for with sales tax and property tax money. The Daily Tar Heel, October 15, 1986, p. 3
  199. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board adopts a $20.7 million budget Two months into the fiscal year the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board voted 5-0 to adopt a $20.7 million budget for 1986-87, $1.9 million more than the year before, for about 5,450 pupils, 5 percent more than the 5,177 of the previous year. The county gave $450,000 for capital needs against $750,000 to $1 million requested, $150,000 of it for temporary classrooms at Carrboro and Seawell elementary schools, and the commissioners had raised the district's supplemental school tax 2.3 cents in July. The Daily Tar Heel, September 25, 1986, p. 4
  200. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board takes up a student search policy The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board introduced a policy letting school officials search a student or the student's belongings or car on reasonable suspicion, with parents to be told of every search, and lockers open to search at any time; final approval was set for November 3. The Daily Tar Heel, October 21, 1986, p. 4
  201. Superintendent Gerry House asks the school board to take on the racial gap in test scores Chapel Hill-Carrboro superintendent Gerry House asked the school board to work out ways to close the gap between Black and white students' scores on the California Achievement Test; Black students usually scored about 50 percentile points lower, and while scores rose with grade level the gap had widened. Board chair Sue Baker suggested classes of 15 in kindergarten through third grade, Fred Battle said the gap should not be blamed on family income, and staff were to bring recommendations in the spring. People: Fred Battle The Daily Tar Heel, October 21, 1986, p. 4
  202. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board asks for a sales tax exemption The Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board adopted a resolution asking Orange County's legislators to exempt public school systems from sales tax, and voted unanimously to take up a change in its teacher personnel file policy to follow the attorney general's reading of state law. The Daily Tar Heel, December 2, 1986, p. 3
  203. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board creates a personnel director post The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education voted unanimously to re-create the job of personnel director, with a technician and secretary, to reorganize the personnel office and relieve the assistant superintendent for support services, who had announced her resignation. Superintendent Gerry House said the change put personnel on a par with the system's other support programs. The Daily Tar Heel, February 13, 1987, p. 3
  204. About 150 people back middle schools at a Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board hearing About 150 people at a public hearing of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education spoke overwhelmingly for turning the system's two junior high schools into middle schools for grades six through eight, with ninth graders moving to the high school. Teachers asked for careful planning and training, and the board set its vote for Feb. 16; at the same meeting it voted unanimously to keep observing Black History Month each year. The Daily Tar Heel, February 4, 1987, p. 3
  205. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board votes to turn its junior highs into middle schools The six members of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education voted unanimously to begin converting the system's junior high schools into middle schools after a six-month study: elementary schools would take kindergarten through fifth grade, middle schools sixth through eighth, and the ninth grade would move to the high school. Assistant superintendent Michael Radz put facilities for the middle-school plan at $19.5 million against $16 million for the existing grades and expected the middle schools in three to five years. The Daily Tar Heel, February 25, 1987, p. 4
  206. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board votes that students may not smoke during the school day Taking up Superintendent Gerry House's proposal to ban smoking and other tobacco use on school property, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education voted 6 to 1 that students should not be allowed to smoke during the school day and set its final decision on a full ban for April 6. Phyllis Lotchin voted no, saying the rule could not be enforced; members split over whether teachers should still smoke in set areas. People: Fred Battle The Daily Tar Heel, March 18, 1987, p. 4
  207. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board bans student smoking at Chapel Hill High The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education voted 5 to 2 to ban students from smoking or using other tobacco during the school day and at school events from fall 1987, ending the outdoor smoking then allowed on the high school grounds; teachers were not included. Four Chapel Hill High students protested that the rule was hypocritical and could not be enforced. People: Fred Battle The Daily Tar Heel, April 15, 1987, p. 2
  208. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board votes to bring its corporal punishment policy under a new state law The Chapel Hill-Carrboro city school board voted 6-0 to change its discipline policy to meet a new state law on corporal punishment: parents were to be told, other students could not be present, and assistant principals as well as principals could give it. The change needed a second vote on Oct. 19. The board also accepted a 15-passenger van bought for Chapel Hill High School by its booster club. People: Fred Battle The Daily Tar Heel, October 7, 1987, p. 3
  209. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board votes that children with AIDS should not be kept out of class The city school board voted unanimously that children who tested positive for AIDS should not be barred from school, leaving each case to a committee of the child's physician, teacher, principal, nurse and others, under guidelines close to those the N.C. Division of Health Services recommended in January 1986. Officials knew of no infected child in the system, and the policy needed a second vote on Nov. 16 to take effect. The Daily Tar Heel, November 4, 1987, p. 3
  210. Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education adopts a policy for employees with communicable diseases such as AIDS The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education adopted a health and safety policy that allowed the school system to reassign an employee with a chronic communicable disease, such as hepatitis B or AIDS, to a position limiting contact with students and other employees. The Daily Tar Heel, November 18, 1987, p. 2
  211. Hilliard Caldwell tells a Chapel Hill forum that local schools still fail Black students Speaking as home school coordinator for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools at a Human Rights Week forum, Caldwell said the community spent millions on education without adequate results and that few Black students reached the honor rolls. His cousin Ed Caldwell, a school board member, spoke as well. The Daily Tar Heel, November 17, 1987, p. 1
  212. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board moves Carrboro Elementary sixth-graders to Culbreth Junior High To relieve crowding at Carrboro Elementary School, which held about 605 pupils in a building meant for 482, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education voted 7-0 to move the school's sixth grade to Grey Culbreth Junior High School by August 1988. Several parents spoke against the move; Superintendent Gerry House had recommended it as consistent with the system's planned shift to middle schools, at an estimated cost of $250,000 to $300,000. The Daily Tar Heel, February 3, 1988, p. 4
  213. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board bans smoking by all employees on school grounds The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education banned smoking by all school employees on school grounds, to take effect in September 1990, ending the designated smoking areas. Chairman Theodore Parrish cited the dangers of passive smoke; Mary Bushnell voted no, and the teachers' association co-president Larry Wakeford objected that teachers had not been consulted. People: Fred Battle The Daily Tar Heel, September 23, 1988, p. 5
  214. Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools' Student Assistance Program wins a state award The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools' Student Assistance Program, an early intervention program at Phillips and Culbreth junior highs and Chapel Hill High that drew 183 referrals in grades seven to 12 the year before, was chosen for the governor's yearly award for excellence among state school programs, to be presented in January. The Daily Tar Heel, October 18, 1988, p. 3
  215. Inspection finds asbestos in every Chapel Hill-Carrboro school An inspection required of every school system under federal law found asbestos-containing material in all of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools, though officials said none posed an immediate danger; ceiling tiles at Guy B. Phillips Junior High were rated friable but tested well under the state's level of concern. A management plan from ELB and Associates, presented to the Board of Education, scheduled removal at some sites and sealing or upkeep at others, with full compliance due the next summer. The Daily Tar Heel, October 24, 1988, p. 7
  216. PTA Thrift Shops give a record $279,000 to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools The nonprofit PTA Thrift Shops at Kroger Plaza and on Jones Ferry Road in Carrboro gave $279,000 to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools in 1989, their largest donation yet, manager Betty Suggs said. The Daily Tar Heel, January 16, 1990, p. 7
  217. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board moves sixth graders to the junior highs and Phillips ninth graders to the high school To relieve crowding, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education voted to send rising sixth graders from Frank Porter Graham Elementary to Culbreth Junior High and those from Seawell and Estes Hills to Phillips Junior High, to move Phillips's ninth graders to Chapel Hill High the next fall while Culbreth's stayed, and to reassign the Colonial Heights and Ironwoods neighborhoods from Carrboro Elementary to Estes Hills and Seawell. Carolyn Horn was the only board member opposed. The Daily Tar Heel, February 22, 1989, p. 4
  218. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board closes the district to new transfer students To ease crowding, the board voted unanimously to accept no new out-of-district transfer students from the 1989-90 school year; students already approved, staff members' children and siblings could stay through 12th grade if space and racial balance allowed. Transfer students paid $1,605 tuition plus $104 from the county; an option sending them home after their current school was defeated 5-2. The Daily Tar Heel, March 29, 1989, p. 3
  219. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board backs the proposed county impact tax The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board voted unanimously to support the Orange County commissioners' proposed impact tax on new development, provided part of the money went to the schools. Superintendent Gerry House said new subdivisions brought more children; the board's proposed 1989-90 budget of $12,181,686, up 10.85 percent, included $1,325,000 for capital needs such as buses, sixth- and ninth-grade reassignment and asbestos removal at Phillips, Culbreth and Chapel Hill High. The Daily Tar Heel, April 19, 1989, p. 4
  220. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board doubles its money for at-risk students The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School Board allocated $40,000 for 1989-90 programs for at-risk students, twice the year before, after principals reported on the tutoring, parent-involvement and counseling programs of 1988-89. Eight of nine schools reported successful tutorial programs, while Ephesus Road and Estes Hills reported little gain in parent participation. The Daily Tar Heel, October 18, 1989, p. 4
  221. Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools form a Blue Ribbon Task Force after Black parents press on the achievement gap Black parents demanded more resources for disadvantaged students, and the district responded with a Blue Ribbon Task Force. The article judges that it changed little: the gap between Black and White test scores, tracked since the 1980s, narrowed only slightly. Willow Lung-Amam, "The Not-So-New South Suburbs," RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9, no. 2 (2023), p. 61
  222. Randee Haven-O'Donnell is named Soil and Water Conservation Teacher of the Year Haven-O'Donnell, who taught in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, was named Orange County and North Carolina Soil and Water Conservation Teacher of the Year. Town of Carrboro: Council Member Randee Haven-O'Donnell (Internet Archive capture)
  223. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board asks for school bus safety features but not seat belts The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education approved a list of safety features it wanted on new school buses, including backup alarms, roof hatches, public address systems and strobe lights, for the State Department of Public Instruction. Its transportation advisory committee could not agree on lap belts, and the board left them out. The Daily Tar Heel, February 21, 1990, p. 4
  224. A multicultural education task force reports racial tension in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools The 27-member task force that Superintendent Gerry House organized in 1989 told the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education that racism and cultural tension were real problems in the system, that staff did not relate well to a diverse student body, that minority parents often did not feel welcome, and that the curriculum needed to be revised. Co-chairwoman Margo Crawford said the tensions began in junior high and grew in high school; the group was to report again in June. The Daily Tar Heel, March 22, 1990, p. 3
  225. Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools install the TI-IN satellite teaching network at Lincoln Center The Texas Interactive Instructional Network, a satellite service of live teaching programs with call-in telephones, was installed at Lincoln Center, the school system's offices, in September for a $4,500 yearly fee; the Orange County Schools also had it. The state had spent $3 million since 1987 putting it in 172 North Carolina sites. The Daily Tar Heel, October 25, 1990, p. 3
  226. Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools record the state's third-lowest dropout rate A state Department of Public Instruction report released in January 1992 showed that only 1.49 percent of Chapel Hill-Carrboro high school students dropped out in the 1990-91 school year, the third-lowest rate among North Carolina's 134 school systems, against 5.6 percent statewide. The system credited its dropout prevention coordinators. The Daily Tar Heel, January 15, 1992, p. 2
  227. Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools adopt a plan to stress cultural diversity Administrators and teachers in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools approved a plan, drawn up over about 18 months by a task force co-chaired by Black Cultural Center director Margo Crawford, requiring each teacher and administrator to spend 30 hours on cultural awareness and pointing toward new textbooks, courses such as Afro-American studies and a calendar marking more holidays. Chapel Hill High's principal noted only 15 Black students in its 22 honors classes. The Daily Tar Heel, November 1, 1990, p. 2
  228. Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools survey Black parents on how the schools serve Black students At the request of board members Ted Parrish and Ruth Royster, the school system surveyed more than 300 Black parents by telephone. They rated the system's general quality 5.51 out of 7 but its education of Black students 4.29, and Royster doubted parents had told the surveyors all they felt. The Daily Tar Heel, October 22, 1990, p. 4
  229. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board approves building four new schools by 2000 In November 1990 the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board approved plans to build four new schools before 2000, and in February 1991 it asked the Chapel Hill Town Council to plan school sites, athletic fields, pools and other facilities for shared town and school use to save money. The Daily Tar Heel, February 25, 1991, p. 2
  230. The Village Companies Foundation gives a $5,000 challenge grant for a junior high teaching chair honoring Zora Rashkis The Village Companies Foundation issued a $5,000 challenge grant through the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public School Foundation to endow a junior high English teaching chair named for retired teacher Zora Rashkis, the second such chair for junior high teachers. People: Zora Rashkis The Daily Tar Heel, November 12, 1990, p. 3
  231. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board strikes public housing from its redistricting guidelines Reviewing a redistricting committee's four recommendations for a new student assignment plan, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education agreed to drop a guideline that would have spread students from public housing neighborhoods among the schools, after member Ted Parrish argued it would stigmatize those children, and it reworked the guideline on balancing families' income levels. Superintendent Gerry House had told the board in October that the schools no longer met the system's racial balance policy, and she noted that students from 13 of the 14 public housing developments in the two towns attended Phillips Junior High. The Daily Tar Heel, December 5, 1990, p. 3
  232. Chapel Hill-Carrboro teachers vote for a bonus over a lead teacher plan In a vote held the week of September 2, 1991, under the state's Senate Bill 2 school improvement program, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools teachers chose a one-time bonus of $300 to $550 over a lead teacher plan, 256 to 235 with one abstention. The district's $188,000 share went to the bonuses; a principal and the state teachers' association president said the vote left teachers divided. The Daily Tar Heel, September 9, 1991, p. 3
  233. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board adds 50 hours of community service to graduation requirements The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Board of Education approved requiring 50 hours of community service for graduation, starting with the next year's freshmen. The Daily Tar Heel, October 16, 1991, p. 8
  234. Superintendent Gerry House resigns to lead the Memphis city schools Gerry House announced in December 1991 that she was resigning as superintendent of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools to become superintendent of the Memphis City Schools on July 1, 1992. The school board named members Sue Baker, Ruth Royster and Ken Touw to a search subcommittee and planned an interim superintendent. The Daily Tar Heel, January 8, 1992, p. 3
  235. Orange County commissioners reject a development fee for technology in the new Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools In the spring of 1992 the Orange County Board of Commissioners considered raising $2 million for technology at two new Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools by levying a fee on new development, but rejected it. In February 1993, with the $52 million school bond covering buildings but not computers, Commissioner Verla Insko said the board would take up the fee again, and Commissioner Don Willhoit said the alternative was a property tax increase. The Daily Tar Heel, February 16, 1993, p. 5
  236. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board contracts to buy 40 acres in Carrboro for a new school The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education approved a contract to buy about 40 acres between Old Fayetteville Road and Hillsborough Road (old N.C. 86), near Barrington Hills, for a future middle or elementary school, paying the owners $30,000 to hold the land at a total price of $900,000 until a bond referendum later in 1992. In mid-February the board's attorney called it the favored site of six studied, and Carrboro aldermen began discussing what a school there would need. People: Jacquelyn Gist The Daily Tar Heel, February 3, 1992, p. 3
  237. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board keeps its superintendent search committee to board members The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education voted 6 to 1 to let only board members serve on the committee choosing a successor to Superintendent Gerry House, over the objections of the teachers association; Ken Touw cast the lone vote against. The board promised a survey of parents and employees, a public hearing on March 2 and public presentations by the finalists. The Daily Tar Heel, January 30, 1992, p. 3
  238. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board names James Ellerbee interim superintendent and widens its search committee The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education named James Ellerbee, Johnston County's superintendent for 11 years, interim superintendent from March 16, to work alongside departing Superintendent Gerry House until she left March 31. On a 6-1 vote, with Ted Parrish against, the board also changed the committee that would pick House's permanent successor to include all seven board members plus a PTA Council representative, two teachers, a principal, central office and non-teaching staff, Citizens Organized for Progress in Education and two school governance committee members. The Daily Tar Heel, March 9, 1992, p. 3
  239. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board and Carrboro aldermen discuss a new middle school near Carrboro Community Park The school board hosted the Carrboro aldermen to talk over a 740-student middle school planned between Hillsborough and Old Fayetteville roads near Carrboro Community Park if a $52 million school bond passed in November. Assistant superintendent Neil Pedersen proposed sharing sports and library space with the town and later building an elementary school on the same site; Alderman Hilliard Caldwell, who lived nearby, said residents would oppose a service road onto Hillsborough Road. People: Hilliard Caldwell, Ellie Kinnaird The Daily Tar Heel, April 16, 1992, p. 3
  240. Neil Pedersen becomes superintendent of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board chose assistant superintendent Neil Pedersen to succeed Gerry House, who had left to lead the Memphis schools, and he took office on June 30, 1992. He named passing the November school bond, closing the achievement gap for Black students and keeping site-based management among his goals. The Daily Tar Heel, July 9, 1992, p. 4
  241. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board suspends the California Achievement Test The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education voted 6 to 1 in September 1992 to drop the California Achievement Test for the 1992-93 school year in most grades, with members questioning how well it measured useful skills and citing large gaps between Black and white students' scores as a sign of bias. Third and sixth graders, whose grades had missed their Senate Bill 2 goals, still had to take it along with the new state end-of-grade tests. The Daily Tar Heel, September 28, 1992, p. 2
  242. Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools count 6,784 students as the state projects rapid growth With 6,784 students enrolled, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools received state projections of more than 7,000 the next year and more than 8,000 by 1996-97, with Orange County enrollment growing 26.6 percent in five years; officials cited the figures for the $52 million bond. The Daily Tar Heel, October 15, 1992, p. 3
  243. Orange County voters approve a $52 million school bond Orange County voters approved a $52 million school bond on November 3, 1992, to build a new middle school and a new high school for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools, a new middle school for the Orange County Schools, and technology upgrades. With 36 of 42 precincts reporting, 21,226 voted for it and 16,018 against, with the northern precincts opposed. The Daily Tar Heel, November 4, 1992, p. 1
  244. State report card ranks the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools first in North Carolina The state's 1992 Report Card on school systems, released Jan. 7, ranked the Chapel Hill-Carrboro district first in the state for the second year in a row. School board members said the test scores also showed the district was not serving its Black students as well as others. The Daily Tar Heel, January 13, 1993, p. 3
  245. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board pledges to act on its blue ribbon task force's plan for Black students The school board voted unanimously for a resolution committing the system to act on its blue ribbon task force's recommendations for Black students, among them textbook guidelines that include Black history and literature, a mentor program, more Black students in gifted programs, leadership classes for parents and an expanded Head Start. A resident told the board the plan lacked urgency, and members disagreed over how to pay for it. The Daily Tar Heel, March 16, 1993, p. 3
  246. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools name Charles Patteson principal of Chapel Hill High By May 20, 1993 the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools had chosen Charles A. Patteson of Pageland, S.C., from 70 applicants as principal of Chapel Hill High School, and named Culbreth principal Charles Stewart to open the new middle school. The Daily Tar Heel, May 20, 1993, p. 4
  247. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board approves condom distribution at Chapel Hill High On June 21, 1993 the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education voted 6-1 for an AIDS prevention plan that let Chapel Hill High School students get condoms from the school nurse or guidance counselors, with parents able to opt their children out. Doug Breeden cast the only vote against. The Daily Tar Heel, June 24, 1993, p. 3
  248. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board picks a Weaver Dairy Road site for a second high school By July 15, 1993 the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education had chosen a 72-acre site on Weaver Dairy Road, near the Chesley neighborhood and on a bus route, for a new high school to be paid for from the $52 million bond of November 1992. The school, planned for 1,000 to 1,500 students, still needed Town Council approval before construction the next summer. The Daily Tar Heel, July 15, 1993, p. 3
  249. Parents crowd a Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board meeting to protest the multicultural plan Parents filled a Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education meeting to object to the system's newly adopted multicultural education plan, chiefly its lessons on sexual orientation, which they said belonged at home. Town Council members Mark Chilton and Joe Herzenberg spoke for the plan, and the board agreed to review its mission statement, with Superintendent Neil Pedersen backing a revision committee that included members of the public. People: Mark Chilton The Daily Tar Heel, July 22, 1993, p. 3
  250. Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools post North Carolina's highest SAT average again The state's 1993 SAT report showed the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools with the highest average scores in North Carolina, 1,028 at Chapel Hill High School against a state average of 859 and a national average of 902, and the highest participation rate, with almost 88 percent of seniors taking the test. A school research coordinator said the system had led the state for at least 10 years. The Daily Tar Heel, August 27, 1993, p. 2
  251. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board adopts a school violence policy The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education passed a policy declaring that violence would not be tolerated and that students who were violent or carried weapons could be suspended or expelled, with assault, weapon possession, larceny, stalking and extortion to be handled by both school officials and police. The board acted after two guns were found at Guy B. Phillips Junior High the year before and kept $45,000 in its budget for violence prevention programs. The Daily Tar Heel, August 26, 1993, p. 2
  252. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board forms a committee on teaching sexual-orientation tolerance After public controversy over sexual orientation in its multicultural plan, the school board formed a Multicultural Action Plan Implementation Committee of parents, teachers, administrators and residents, led by board member Ken Touw, to recommend how to teach tolerance of differences in sexual orientation. The Daily Tar Heel, September 22, 1993, p. 3
  253. Parents pack a Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board meeting over gay and lesbian readings More than 100 parents and residents came to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education meeting at Lincoln Center on October 18 to speak about works by gay and lesbian authors on the reading list of a Chapel Hill High School multicultural literature project, which the principal had suspended two days earlier. Members of the watchdog group Putting Children First called for the board and superintendent to resign, and the next day Superintendent Neil Pedersen announced a review of how the list was compiled and used. The Daily Tar Heel, October 20, 1993, p. 3
  254. Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools start Volunteers and Partners for Education The new group recruited and trained retired people, professionals and UNC students as classroom volunteers and mentors, with help from the UNC School of Education and the Center for Teaching and Learning. The Daily Tar Heel, November 10, 1993, p. 3
  255. Chapel Hill-Carrboro voters elect Mark Royster, Mary Bushnell and LaVonda Burnette to the school board Banker Mark Royster, chairman of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on African-American student achievement, led eight candidates with 7,030 votes, board chairwoman Mary Bushnell was re-elected with 6,743, and LaVonda Burnette, a 22-year-old part-time UNC student and graduate of the district, won the third seat by 113 votes over Bea Hughes-Werner. The Daily Tar Heel called Burnette the first University student to run for the board; she noted afterward that she and Bushnell had backed the multicultural plan's sexual-orientation clause while two candidates who opposed it lost. The Daily Tar Heel, November 3, 1993, p. 3
  256. State denies the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools a violence-prevention grant The N.C. Board of Education left the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools out when it announced its Safe Schools Act grants on December 2, turning down the district's request for $131,000 for a violence-prevention program. Board chairwoman Mary Bushnell said the district would keep working with police, social services and mental health agencies, and member Sue Baker noted $45,000 already set aside for programs at the secondary schools. The Daily Tar Heel, December 6, 1993, p. 3
  257. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board accepts federal money for homeless students On December 6 the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education approved, on its consent agenda, a proposal by assistant superintendent Ann Hart to use a $3,000 federal Education for Homeless Children and Youth grant for the second year running, paying for after-school and summer day care, school supplies and transportation for homeless students from January 1994 through June 1995. A census three years earlier had found homeless children in the district, and the children's committee at the Inter-Faith Council shelter said the help let parents look for jobs and housing. The Daily Tar Heel, December 8, 1993, p. 3
  258. Multicultural plan committee rewrites its mission statement to stress respect over celebration The 37-member committee that the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board set up after parents objected to including sexual orientation in its multicultural education plan released a revised mission statement on December 6. Where the original said diversities were to be 'recognized and celebrated,' the new text said all individuals were to be 'recognized, accepted and respected,' and it kept a passage on reducing prejudice based on sexual orientation; chairman Ken Touw, a board member, said the original intent had been misunderstood. The Daily Tar Heel, December 9, 1993, p. 3
  259. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board unanimously asks LaVonda Burnette to resign At LaVonda Burnette's first meeting as a member, on December 27, 1993, the other six members of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education decided unanimously to ask her to resign for damaging the board's credibility by misrepresenting her education; NAACP counsel Alan McSurely said she would not resign. People: Alan McSurely The Daily Tar Heel, January 10, 1994, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, January 10, 1994, p. 2; The Daily Tar Heel, January 25, 1994, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, January 11, 1994, p. 1
  260. State report card puts Chapel Hill-Carrboro students above state averages A N.C. Department of Public Instruction report released January 5 showed Chapel Hill-Carrboro students scoring above the state average in every area of the new end-of-grade tests except sixth-grade writing, with a combined SAT average of 1,028 against 834 statewide. School spokeswoman Kim Hoke said the district still wanted more students reading at grade level. The Daily Tar Heel, January 10, 1994, p. 2
  261. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board asks legislators for a way to recall its members Before a standing-room-only crowd at Estes Hills Elementary School, the Board of Education turned down member LaVonda Burnette's offer to resign on July 1, 1995, and asked the county's legislators for a law letting voters recall school board members. The board, which had asked her to resign for misrepresenting her education, also told its attorney to begin an investigation, took her off the personnel policy committee and kept her from a national conference. The Daily Tar Heel, January 11, 1994, p. 1
  262. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board adopts its plan to give out condoms at Chapel Hill High The board unanimously approved the implementation plan, under which a student could get three free condoms after talking with the school nurse or a counselor and parents could opt their children out; the parents' group Putting Children First, which urged abstinence, said it might sue. The Daily Tar Heel, January 25, 1994, p. 1
  263. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board funds more security and violence prevention at Chapel Hill High On January 24 the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education gave Chapel Hill High School $19,000 for security, faculty training and peer mediation, including $9,000 to extend the hours of its guards and $4,300 for another guard, and granted Culbreth and Phillips middle schools $13,000 each for psychiatric services and Dispute Settlement Center training. Principal Charles Patteson said the high school community of about 2,200 people was like a small town with its own problems. The Daily Tar Heel, February 2, 1994, p. 3
  264. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board approves a free SAT course at Chapel Hill High On February 7 the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education approved a free SAT preparation class at Chapel Hill High School for students with financial need or academic disadvantages, such as those learning English as a second language, to be taught by a regular teacher; the school's after-school SAT class cost $120. Board member Mary Bushnell said the district had long been concerned about students who struggled with standardized tests. The Daily Tar Heel, February 11, 1994, p. 3
  265. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board proposes guidelines for choosing classroom readings On February 7 the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education put forward four questions for teachers choosing supplemental readings: fit with the district's, school's and course's goals, suitability for the students' age and maturity, the diversity of values reflected, and a variety of viewpoints, with a vote on adopting them as policy set for March. Board member Mary Bushnell said the district had found it had no policy when parents protested David Bruton's lesbian and gay literature unit at Chapel Hill High the previous fall; the unit had been suspended. The Daily Tar Heel, February 8, 1994, p. 3
  266. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board tentatively names its new middle school for Charles A. and Lucile McDougle At a public hearing the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education tentatively named the district's first new school in 20 years the Charles A. and Lucile McDougle Middle School, for two Black educators with about 70 years of service between them: Charles McDougle was the only principal of Lincoln High School and Lucile McDougle taught 33 years in the district. A committee had narrowed about 100 suggestions to six, among them Pauli Murray and R.D. Smith, and the board expected to adopt the name March 21. People: Charles A. McDougle The Daily Tar Heel, March 15, 1994, p. 3
  267. Ruth Royster announces she will leave the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board Ruth Royster, a Carrboro resident on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education since 1987, announced at the board's March 21 meeting that she would resign before finishing her second term because she was moving to Connecticut. Chairman Ken Touw said the board had no set way to fill a vacancy and would appoint someone to serve until the November 1995 election; Royster said her work had centered on early childhood and minority education. The Daily Tar Heel, March 23, 1994, p. 1
  268. Two families sue the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board over its community service requirement In April 1994 two families with sons at Chapel Hill High School, represented by the Institute for Justice, sued the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education over its rule that every student complete 50 hours of community service to graduate, arguing that it amounted to involuntary servitude and exceeded the board's authority. In October Superintendent Neil Pedersen said the board might widen what counted as service, and the American Alliance for Rights and Responsibilities sought to intervene for three Chapel Hill High students who backed the requirement. The Daily Tar Heel, October 20, 1994, p. 3
  269. NAACP leads opposition at the school board's hearing on a recall bill At a May 16 hearing the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education called on its proposed bill to let voters recall school board members, eight of nine speakers opposed it, and the local NAACP was the only organized opposition, asking for more signatures, limited grounds and other changes. On May 2 the board had raised the petition requirement to 10 percent of registered voters, about 4,250 signatures, and voted to send the bill to the General Assembly; supporters of member LaVonda Burnette said it was aimed at her. People: Alan McSurely The Daily Tar Heel, May 19, 1994, p. 1
  270. School board formally charges LaVonda Burnette and sets a removal hearing On June 6 the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education presented member LaVonda Burnette with 10 charges that she had lied about her educational status before and after taking office, and set a July 7 hearing to decide whether they were true and amounted to 'immoral or disreputable conduct' requiring removal. The hearing followed State Superintendent Bob Etheridge's letters of April 26 and May 23 directing the board to hold one. The Daily Tar Heel, June 9, 1994, p. 3
  271. Residents back adding sexual orientation to the city schools' multicultural plan At a June 20 public hearing in Lincoln Center held by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools' Multicultural Action Team, 16 of 22 speakers supported keeping sexual orientation in the revised mission statement of the system's multicultural action plan, which asked students to accept and respect differences rather than celebrate them. Gay residents and parents of gay children spoke of harassment in school; opponents called the materials propaganda. The Daily Tar Heel, June 23, 1994, p. 4
  272. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board adds sexual orientation to its multicultural action plan On August 4 the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education unanimously approved additions to its multicultural action plan that took in sexual orientation, after a June 20 public hearing and a nine-month debate. The plan, retitled to stress the promotion of respect for diversity, called for teacher training, advance notice to parents with a right to opt out of outside speakers on human sexuality, and a trained counselor for concerns about sexual orientation; the Daily Tar Heel called the system the first in the state with a multicultural action plan. The Daily Tar Heel, August 24, 1994, p. 12
  273. School board names Elizabeth Carter to fill Ruth Royster's seat The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education unanimously chose Elizabeth Carter, a UNC Hospitals secretary, from 19 applicants to fill the seat Ruth Royster left when she moved to Connecticut with 15 months left in her term; she was to be sworn in September 1. Carter, a Chapel Hill native who attended segregated schools until high school and served on the Blue Ribbon Task Force on the achievement of Black students, said she would be a voice for the Black community. The Daily Tar Heel, August 24, 1994, p. 11
  274. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board forms a redistricting committee for its new high and elementary schools The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education voted unanimously on September 22 to set up a committee to redraw attendance lines for seven elementary schools, three middle schools and two high schools ahead of the planned 1996 opening of a new high school on Weaver Dairy Road and a new elementary school. Chaired by board member Mark Royster, it was to include board members, principals, 18 parents, three non-Black minority parents, four teachers and three Chapel Hill High students. The Daily Tar Heel, September 23, 1994, p. 3
  275. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board accepts LaVonda Burnette's resignation and orders new ballots The board voted 6-0 to accept the resignation LaVonda Burnette had delivered to Superintendent Neil Pedersen on October 14, ending the recall election set for November 8, and voted unanimously to have the ballots reprinted without the recall at an estimated $4,500. The Daily Tar Heel, October 24, 1994, p. 3
  276. The first state school violence report counts incidents in Orange County's two school systems The first N.C. Report on School Violence, compiled by the Department of Public Instruction for 1993-94 and reported in October, counted 100 violent incidents in Orange County schools, about 1.3 per 1,000 students in the Orange County Schools and 1.1 in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, higher rates than Durham County's 0.6 and Wake's 0.3. Chapel Hill-Carrboro Superintendent Neil Pedersen and spokeswoman Kim Hoke said the small numbers and the district's practice of reporting every weapon, even toys, made the comparison uncertain. The Daily Tar Heel, October 11, 1994, p. 3
  277. LaVonda Burnette resigns from the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education On Oct. 14, less than a month before a recall election set for November, school board member LaVonda Burnette handed Superintendent Neil Pedersen a letter resigning her seat effective Oct. 15, ending 11 months of controversy that began in December 1993 when it was learned she was not a UNC student, as she had described herself in her campaign. Her letter cited the strain of the controversy and her work for underserved children, including chairing the committee that named the new C. A. and Lucile McDougle Middle School; the board was to decide on Nov. 3 how to fill the seat. The Daily Tar Heel, October 17, 1994, p. 1
  278. Bea Hughes-Werner joins the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education On November 3 the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education voted unanimously to appoint Bea Hughes-Werner, who had finished 113 votes behind LaVonda Burnette in the 1993 election, to the seat Burnette left when she resigned in October, to serve until December 1995. Hughes-Werner, president of the Phillips Middle School PTA and a member of the Blue Ribbon Task Force, named at-risk students, land for new schools and lobbying for school money as her priorities. The Daily Tar Heel, November 4, 1994, p. 1 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, November 11, 1994, p. 2
  279. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board approves Taco Bell lunches at Chapel Hill High The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education approved a pilot plan for Taco Bell to supply equipment, recipes and training so the Chapel Hill High cafeteria could serve its food, in exchange for 16 percent of the profits. Officials said only about 17 percent of students ate school lunch in a building made for about 1,650 that held 2,200. The Daily Tar Heel, November 18, 1994, p. 3
  280. The school board cuts the plans for Chapel Hill's second high school after a high bid With the construction bid about $3.8 million over its $22 million budget, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education decided to drop the auditorium, rehearsal rooms, one side of the gym seating, the outdoor stadium and track and other features from the new high school on Weaver Dairy Road and to keep negotiating with the contractor. Chairman Ken Touw said the cuts would seriously affect students. The Daily Tar Heel, November 22, 1994, p. 3
  281. Valerie Foushee is elected to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board Foushee was elected to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro city schools board in 1997 and served until 2004, pressing for equity in the schools. It was the first of the local offices she held over 25 years in local and state government. U.S. House of Representatives: About Congresswoman Valerie Foushee
  282. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board adopts its school assignment and reassignment policy Policy 4150 set the rules the district followed when it redrew attendance lines. As revised on April 2, 2009, its priorities for reassignment were walk zones, full use of buildings and equity, meaning balanced family income and achievement among schools and short travel times. Willow Lung-Amam, "The Not-So-New South Suburbs," RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9, no. 2 (2023), p. 72
  283. Orange County and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools put the McDougle branch library under contract A contract between Orange County and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Board of Education made the public library in the McDougle schools a branch of the Orange County Public Library, with a county-employed branch librarian. The schools provided space and utilities, the county paid for furnishings, insurance, janitorial service and staff stipends, and branch hours were not to overlap school hours. Alexandra B. Leinaweaver, "After Ten Years: A Portrait of a Joint School/Public Library" (UNC SILS master's paper, 2005), Appendix C
  284. Mel and Zora Rashkis Elementary School is dedicated Hundreds of students, parents and residents attended the dedication of the district's newest elementary school, which opened that August. The school board named it for Mel and Zora Rashkis for their work with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools since they moved to the area in 1962. People: Mel Rashkis The Daily Tar Heel, November 3, 2003, p. 6 (District dedicates its newest school)
  285. Burma Art Therapy Project begins in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools The Art Therapy Institute began a school-based art therapy program for adolescent refugees from Burma in partnership with Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and the refugee community in Orange County. A later UNC evaluation estimated that about 400 Burmese families lived in the county. UNC Carolina Digital Repository: Evaluation of the Burma Art Therapy Project for Adolescent Refugees from Burma in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
  286. Asian Americans are the largest racial minority in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools and in Chapel Hill By 2012 Asian Americans outnumbered every other minority group in the school district and in the town of Chapel Hill. In 2012-13 they were 15 percent of district students and 31 percent at Seawell Elementary, where many Chinese immigrant families had settled. Willow Lung-Amam, "The Not-So-New South Suburbs," RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9, no. 2 (2023), p. 62
  287. The Asian American Parent Advisory Council declines to back the Section 74A parents The council, a parent group formed to represent Asian American families in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools, said in a letter to the Chapel Hill News that it did not see the redistricting as a racial matter and would not join the opposition. Its vice chair said she also hoped to counter a growing belief that Asian American parents were racist. Willow Lung-Amam, "The Not-So-New South Suburbs," RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9, no. 2 (2023), p. 68
  288. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board decides to build a new Northside Elementary on the old school's site The board announced a new elementary school on the grounds of the Northside school that had closed in 1966, to carry the Northside name. Black families in the Northside neighborhood, whose children had been bused to other schools for decades, welcomed it as a return of their school. Willow Lung-Amam, "The Not-So-New South Suburbs," RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9, no. 2 (2023), p. 63
  289. School Board converts Frank Porter Graham Elementary into a Spanish dual-language magnet school After a district report named serving students with limited English and closing the achievement gap as the main purposes of dual language, and after forums that included sessions for Spanish-speaking and Karen and Burmese families, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board approved converting Frank Porter Graham Elementary into a Spanish-English magnet school. It reopened as the district's first dual-language magnet on August 26, 2013, with more than 500 students. CHCCS News: District announces Dual Language meetings and deadlines
  290. The school board votes 5-2 for the attendance plan that fills the new Northside Elementary After two months of public hearings on four draft plans, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools board chose Plan 2.1, which spread at-risk students most evenly among the elementary schools and reassigned about 1,045 children. Most came from the two schools nearest Northside, including crowded Seawell Elementary, and the whole Section 74A area north of town was moved. Willow Lung-Amam, "The Not-So-New South Suburbs," RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9, no. 2 (2023), p. 66
  291. A new Northside Elementary opened on the old Training School grounds The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools opened a new Northside Elementary on the former Orange County Training School site. In 2012 neighbors had rallied to make sure the new school kept the Northside name. From the Rock Wall: Orange County Training School
  292. Joal Broun is sworn in to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board The district said Broun, a former Carrboro alderman then directing the state's lobbying compliance division, was sworn in to fill the seat left by Michelle Brownstein's resignation. She had also served on the Orange Water and Sewer Authority board and the Orange County Dispute Settlement Center. Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools News: Meet Joal Broun, Newest CHCCS Board Member
  293. Joal Broun is elected chair of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board The board elected Broun chair by unanimous vote after chair Margaret Samuels resigned during a recall push over the Glenwood Elementary dual language magnet decision. Mary Ann Wolf took the vice chair seat Broun had held. Chapelboro: CHCCS Elects New Chair, Vice Chair Following Resignation
  294. Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools launches Food for Students meal distribution CHCCS, the Town of Chapel Hill, PORCH and volunteers began handing out free meals to students as schools closed, starting from about 20 sites. By December 21, 2020 the program had distributed more than 900,000 meals from 37 sites. Chapelboro: CHCCS' Food For Students Distributes More Than 900,000 Meals
  295. Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools close under a statewide order Governor Roy Cooper closed all North Carolina public schools for at least two weeks from Monday, March 16, 2020, shutting both Orange County districts. CHCCS then began online classes for grades 6-12 and sent learning packets home for grades K-5 at the end of March while serving meals to students. EdNC: All North Carolina schools to close to prevent the spread of COVID-19
  296. Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools extends online-only classes into 2021 The CHCCS board unanimously accepted interim Superintendent Jim Causby's recommendation to keep classes virtual through at least January 15, 2021. On December 18, 2020 the board kept remote learning in place through at least February. Chapelboro: Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Extends Online Learning Through January 2021
  297. Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools students return for hybrid classes The CHCCS board voted unanimously on March 4, 2021 to begin hybrid in-person instruction on March 22, nearly a month before the April 19 start it had approved in February. Students attended in cohorts two days a week, and roughly half could remain fully remote. People: Joal Hall Broun Chapelboro: CHCCS To Offer In-Person Instruction in March Following New State Guidance
  298. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board honors Stanley Vickers and his family on the 60th anniversary of his court victory The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools board passed a resolution recognizing the Vickers family's work to integrate the schools. Vickers, then in his 70s, attended and recalled eating lunch and going to gym alone as one of the first Black students at the junior high. INDY Week: Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board Honors Stanley Vickers and His Family's Work to Integrate Area Schools (August 18, 2021)

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