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Michelle Burton, a career educator and former president of the Durham Association of Educators, was born in Chicago to a family with strong union ties – her grandfather was in the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters, the nation’s first all-Black union – and leadership in racial and social justice. Burton,
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The good news: Classified staff at Durham Public Schools won’t have to return any money to the district for what some administration officials have termed an “overpayment.” The Board of Education on Thursday night voted to move $4.5 million from the local fund account to cover paychecks for
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The Durham Public Schools Board of Education already had a closed session toward the end of its agenda for tonight’s monthly meeting. But earlier this week, DPS officials added a new closed session ahead of the regular meeting, scheduled from 5 to 6:30 p.m. while the Durham
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The most dramatic topic of Thursday’s Durham Public Schools Board of Education meeting may be the recent classified pay situation, but the consent agenda also includes some items of interest for DPS families, including repairs and renovations proposed with North Carolina Education Lottery funds and a proposal to hire
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Classified employees working for Durham Public Schools will keep their increased pay rate through January, according to Bettina Umstead, chair of the DPS Board of Education. So they won’t have pay clawed back by the district for October through December, and they keep that rate through January. It remains
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It’s not entirely clear whether Durham Public Schools officials expect any school bus driver or mechanic call-outs tomorrow. But a message from the district on Sunday evening advised parents to check their Edulog parent portal for real-time bus information. Dozens of drivers called out last week after classified staff
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The Durham Public Schools Board of Education is set to meet in closed session on Monday at 8 a.m. to review the compensation schedule calculation issue that has left classified district employees worried about retracted raises and possible clawbacks. The meeting is closed so the board can discuss personnel
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A rocky week for Durham Public Schools student transportation is wrapping up, with the district reporting that 60 out of 150 school bus drivers called out on Friday. But it’s still up in the air what next week might hold in store. “We have no directive currently regarding Monday’
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Parents of Durham Public Schools students can expect continued shortages of bus drivers on Friday, and the district is asking once again for parents to manage drop off and pick up. At least 50 bus drivers have called out this week in the aftermath of the district’s decision to
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Durham Public Schools is expected to remain short dozens of school bus drivers on Thursday. Parents who dealt with a two-hour morning delay on Wednesday due to cold weather found themselves needing to pick up their children after school because about 50 school bus drivers called out. It’s not
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Durham students in the coming years will make new inroads into the City of Medicine. An early college program for Durham high school students considering careers in healthcare is getting a boost through a $29.5 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies. The money will fund a partnership between Durham Public
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Don’t be in too much of a hurry to take to South Durham’s roads on Wednesday morning, with temperatures dipping down into the teens: Our public school students are operating on a two-hour delay. For the second time in as many weeks, weather is prompting Durham Public Schools