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As Thursday’s Board of Education meeting started, one sensed a community – teachers, staff, parents, and the politicians sitting on the board – ready to move on and start rebuilding after weeks of turmoil. Superintendent Pascal Mubenga and former Chief Financial Officer Paul LeSieur were gone after apparently bungling the reconfiguration
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Durham Public Schools families on Friday evening received word that district schools may be closed once again on Monday. Schools were closed Friday after administrators said bus mechanics called out from work, making it impossible to inspect and clear buses for transportation. “The reason school was canceled today and may
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Good news (for many): Durham Public Schools classified workers keep their higher paychecks for at least one more month. Bad news (for some): The Board of Education tabled further discussion about the future of those checks until Feb. 22. Good news (for most): DPS announced an interim superintendent to take
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Superintendent Pascal Mubenga has resigned after seven years with Durham Public Schools, in the wake of turmoil spawned by confusion and frustration over classified worker pay. Bettina Umstead, chair of the Board of Education, announced Mubenga’s resignation after a closed-door special meeting. Deputy Superintendent Nicholas King is assuming the
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Millicent Rogers, currently the incumbent representative for Consolidated District B on the Durham Public Schools Board of Education, grew up in Durham and holds the philosophy that all families matter in this town where she grew up. Her grandmother, Reathie Mae Rogers, was president of the McDougald Terrace Residents Association
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The Durham Public Schools Foundation appreciated the Board of Education’s decision to hire an external comptroller, break off its relationship with compensation study provider HIL Consultants, and approval of steps toward a “meet and confer” policy with the Durham Association of Educators. But DPSF isn’t happy about the
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Durham Public Schools families in seven schools – a new set, no repeats from last week – are scrambling to deal with closures on Monday. “We anticipate staffing challenges tomorrow, Monday, Feb. 5, that will prevent us from conducting our school day,” said Crystal Kimpson Roberts, DPS director of strategic communications, in
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After nearly five hours – a big chunk of that spent in closed session (again) – the Durham Public Schools Board of Education couldn’t reach consensus on any option to pay classified staff for February, let alone the rest of the school year. So, in the end, members voted on a
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I’m sharing links to coverage at other local outlets to try to present a more comprehensive picture of what’s been going on with the Durham Public Schools classified worker pay situation. For a journalist working part-time on a startup news site, I admit this feels counterintuitive. But here’
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The Durham Public Schools administration is bringing two scenarios for the Board of Education to consider at a special meeting on Friday: * Pay classified workers based only on their state experience, with a minimum 4% increase to their pay over 2022-23 compensation levels, as recommended in a study conducted last
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The Durham Association of Educators, dissatisfied with the rate of cooperation from the Durham Public Schools administration, is scheduling a protest Wednesday and currently expects 11 schools to be so short on teachers and staff. The district announced Tuesday night that all those affected schools will be closed Jan. 31.
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The classified pay situation in Durham Public Schools might be the topic of a Board of Education special meeting planned for Friday at 3 p.m. It’s scheduled at the administration building on Cleveland Street in downtown Durham. In an email to district families Tuesday night ahead of planned