Matt Goad, Durham Herald-Sun

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Durham Herald-Sun

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Past articles by Matt:

Durham Co. budget raises taxes, tackles racial equity, HIV, keeping people out of jail

The Durham County budget raises taxes 2.3 percent, but a last minute move to add another $250,000 for Durham Public Schools failed The board adds positions to tackle HIV, an expanded downtown library and racial equity. → Read More

Durham Co. budget raises taxes, tackles racial equity, HIV, keeping people out of jail

The Durham County budget raises taxes 2.3 percent, but a last minute move to add another $250,000 for Durham Public Schools failed The board adds positions to tackle HIV, an expanded downtown library and racial equity. → Read More

In Chapel Hill, elementary school kids take on Shakespeare and ‘Oz’

Starting with no budget Savada Gilmore, a teaching assistant at Estes Hills Elementary in Chapel Hill, has elementary school children performing Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” and songs from “The Wizard of Oz.” → Read More

In Chapel Hill, elementary school kids take on Shakespeare and ‘Oz’

Starting with no budget Savada Gilmore, a teaching assistant at Estes Hills Elementary in Chapel Hill, has elementary school children performing Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” and songs from “The Wizard of Oz.” → Read More

Experts urge Carrboro to protect quiet, very dark Duke Forest land in Orange County

Botanists and wildlife experts urged the Carrboro Board of Aldermen to consider a development’s possible impact on Meadow Flats in Duke Forest in Orange County. A public hearing on a rezoning is in September. → Read More

Group suspends effort to recall Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board members

A group that said it would try to recall three Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board members has suspended the effort. The chairwoman targeted in the effort has already resigned. → Read More

Would Chapel Hill home addition mar late UNC botanist’s historic neighborhood?

The Chapel Hill Historic Commission has been unable to decide whether to approve a proposed addition to a home on the estate property of the late UNC botany professor Williams Coker. → Read More

Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board members respond to parent group’s recall effort

Chapel Hill Carrboro school board members targeted for possible recall elections have responded to that effort. Parents upset by events leading to a vote on making Glenwood Elementary a Mandarin dual language magnet school filed the initial paperwork this week. → Read More

Black student suspension rates in Chapel Hill-Carrboro, Orange schools ‘heartbreaking’

Leaders of the Orange County Schools and the Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools talked about racial disparities and the challenge of charter schools. → Read More

Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board moves closer to Mandarin language magnet school vote

The Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools Board of Education must decide if a planned Mandarin Language magnet school at Glenwood Elementary will also have a traditional track. → Read More

Orange County Schools targets intolerance. Why one board member changed his mind

The Orange County Schools equity policy addresses racial disparities and inequality based on national origin, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age and socioeconomic status. → Read More

Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board talks transparency after Mandarin magnet-school vote

Two Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools Board of Education members, James barret and Pet Heinrich, miss chance to weigh on conflict of interest accusations over Mandarin Dual Language vote at Glenwood Elementary. → Read More

How Triangle schools are trying to reduce black and Latino student suspensions

The Orange County Schools will pay a Massachusetts consult to develop a student code of conduct that includes restorative justice practices as an alternative to suspensions. → Read More

Mandarin language debate dividing Chapel Hill elementary school. What could happen next.

Parents in Glenwod Elementary School’s Mandarin-language tract urged the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education not to delay making the school a Mandarin dual-language magnet program. → Read More

Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board member defends Mandarin vote and says he won’t resign

James Barrett, one of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board members who has come under fire for his actions surrounding a controversial vote on the future of Glenwood Elementary School, says he will not resign. → Read More

Film, speaker say charters, traditional public schools in ‘parasitic relationship’

A forum and film showing at Durham Technical Community College criticized charter schools for taking money from traditional public schools. → Read More

Once rotting from neglect, Colonial Inn in Hillsborough could be back in business soon

The Hillsborough Town Board of Commissioners approved a rezoning and permit to revive the Colonial Inn, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. The hotel and restaurant had fallen into disrepair. → Read More

Families on waiting list to get into this Orange County school

Orange County Schools has its first dual language immersion program at New Hope Elementary School between Chapel Hill and Hillsborough where students get half their instruction in Spanish and half in English. → Read More

Hearing loss made a boy cry. Now he’s going to bat for cochlear implant awareness

A cochlear implant at Johns Hopkins restored Jacob Landis’ hearing. Now he’s touring minor league ballparks to raise awareness and money for the procedure. He spoke to the Southwest Durham Rotary Club. → Read More

20 veterans kill themselves every day. Suicide prevention now VA’s No. 1 priority.

20.6 veterans kill themselves every day and suicide prevention is now the VA’s No 1 priority. The Durham VA Health Care System and the Durham County Public Health Department held a forum on mental health. → Read More