Teacher's Desk | Eastern North Carolina Now
Delma Blinson tells it the way he sees it.
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A high school in Pennsylvania, McCaskey East High School, is in the news as a result of intentionally segregating students by race and gender.
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The largest amount of time was spent on awards and recognitions followed by a discussion of revisions in the student dress code.
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The State of North Carolina and every school system in the state, including Beaufort County, is going to be in for a rough financial ride next year, and every year until the economy improves. The prob
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This article is offered not as news but as documentation of how our school board violates the spirit of running our schools in a transparent manner.
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This edition of the Teacher's Desk is a reprint of an article by John Hood in the Carolina Journal. It is posted in its entirety here.
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Relative to other nations, the United States slipped further down the list in the latest results of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA).
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The Beaufort County Board of Education, meeting in its regular monthly meeting announced a change in its practice of releasing personnel information to the public.
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On top of all that Beaufort County is about out of money, and facing a crisis with its hospital. The 5 member liberal voting block on the County Commission has been spending more than it has taken in.
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he Beaufort County Board of Education came up on the wrong side of another legal issue this week.
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The Beaufort County Board of Education approved joining a legal consortium led by the NC School Boards Association to challenge or "clarify" recently adopted changes to NC's public records
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Suspended N. C. students can go unschooled. It was a story on the NC Supreme Court's rulings in two cases that came from Beaufort County.
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There were no (zero) upset citizens protesting the new sex ed. curriculum when the School Board adopted the program last week. Chalk one up for the new superintendent, Dr. Don Phipps.
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Meeting in its regular monthly meeting on September 21, 2010 the Beaufort County Board of Education gave approval for a rather unique "fundraiser" at John Cotton Tayloe School.
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George Will, writing in Sunday's (8-29-10) Washington Post highlights one of the most vexing problems our nation faces…the waste of human capital.
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Governor Perdue came to town Friday. It was embarrassing. Her handlers couldn't have done a much worse job, all the way around.
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Last Saturday the LA Times published student test data. Obviously that was not what made it revolutionary. But what they did was publish the data by teacher. And that if revolutionary.
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The Beaufort County Board of Education heard a report from its staff on the development of a revision in the Health curriculum required by recent state legislation.
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The Beaufort County Board of Education met in its regular monthly meeting Monday (7-26-10).
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We may just have an excellent superintendent. It's too soon to declare that so, but we need to give him every chance in the world to make us the best.
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Beaufort County Schools has posted a news release on its website showing that the school system did not meet "Adequate Yearly Progress" (AYP).
Published: Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 @ 10:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Either Mr. Warren is woefully uninformed, or he is being disingenuous with the Chocowinity Town Board.
Published: Friday, June 4th, 2010 @ 4:33 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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We have received several inquires about the reported resignation of a teacher at Washington High School. Specifically we have been asked why we have not reported on it.
Published: Friday, May 21st, 2010 @ 4:51 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Most people in Beaufort County do not know it, but the Beaufort County Board of Education has created a huge mess with the way it deals with personnel.
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North Carolina law, good judgement and common sense says that the public's business should be conducted in public.
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While other school systems are making plans to cut budgets, including layoffs of classroom teachers, Beaufort County's school board yesterday made plans to spend nearly all of its budget.
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At their regular monthly meeting on March 22 the Beaufort County Board of Education heard a report on the PreK program in Beaufort County.
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The Beaufort County Board of Education, meeting in its regular monthly meeting March 22, heard an update from the administration on the upcoming changes in the system's sex ed.
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This is the second of two articles on the School Board's review of its Drug Testing policy.
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The Beaufort County Board of Education, meeting in its regular monthly meeting, March 22, 2010, discussed revisions that have been recommended to its Drug Testing Policy 4280.
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Beaufort County Schools has made the New York Times. The Times is running a story on the extensive use of suspensions and expulsions in the nation's schools.
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Simply stated the issue is: To what extent must and should we accommodate those who do not speak English?
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Beaufort County Schools officials met with the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners in special session Thursday afternoon to review budget matters.
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The current controversy in North Carolina with the social studies curriculum was a focus of attention at Monday (2-22-10) night's School Board meeting.
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Charter schools are created for two reasons: To provide parents with a choice in which school their child will attend and secondly, to remove bureaucratic restrictions the state imposes on traditional
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