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Holmes Food Bank, Kimberley Park gardens featured in Obama book
Two local garden projects, the Betty and Jim Holmes Food Bank Garden and a community garden at Kimberley Park Elementary School, are mentioned in a new book by first lady Michelle Obama.
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Letters from children warm veterans' hearts
The letters all started anonymously enough.
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Art as a graduation requisite proposed
A proposal backed by state Sen. Pete Brunstetter, R-Forsyth, would add a new arts component to high school graduation requirements and potentially provide state money for more arts teachers around the state.
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Parkland's Class of 2012 is money
Parkland High School's senior class shattered a school record this year, raking in millions more in scholarship offers than the school had seen in previous years.
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Carter G. Woodson, nearly 15 years in, plans expansion
When the leaders of Carter G. Woodson School look back on the nearly 15 years since the school's founding, they don't see test scores or graduation rates.
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Carl Forsman named drama dean at UNC School of the Arts
UNC School of the Arts has a new drama dean.
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Go-carts, turkey fat, sledgehammers and hot dogs: school year winds down at Career Center
Customized go-carts slid around the corners Wednesday at the Career Center, chugging away on turkey fat.
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Jefferson Middle teacher named WSFC Teacher of the Year
She jumps on a desk and uses a wicked witch's voice to get attention.
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Two local high schools place in national Newsweek ranking
A pair of Winston-Salem area high schools made Newsweek's "America's Best High Schools 2012" list, which ranks 1,000 schools.
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Bill would let corporations direct taxes to private schools for low-income students
North Carolina lawmakers this week will introduce legislation that would let corporations send up to $40 million of their state taxes next year to a program that would give low-income children up to $4,000 to attend private or religious schools.
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Decision delayed on 2013-14 WS/FC school calendar
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school board members opted to hold off on a calendar decision Tuesday, giving more thought to a plan that shifts the school year starting in 2013.
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Local students visit D.C. for cooking competition
A local team of high school culinary students didn't come out on top this week at a healthy cooking competition in Washington, but they said they had a great trip and learned what it's like to whip up a meal when the pressure's on.
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Governor's School supporters pushing for renewed state funding
N.C. Governor's School supporters are making a push this week to restore state funding for the summer program, which was defunded last year but will go on this summer because of private funding.
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1,700 graduate from Wake Forest, including a sixth-generation Deacon
Curtis Vann admits it.
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Ad criticizing Muslim chaplain at WFU draws fire
An alumnus from Wake Forest University who took out an advertisement in Monday's Winston-Salem Journal criticizing Imam Khalid Griggs, a university chaplain, said he did so as a way of pushing his alma mater into playing host to a debate on Shariah law.
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School may start earlier, end earlier, in 2013-'14
Local school board members are considering a calendar shift that would start and end school earlier, with more time in between for fall, winter and spring breaks.
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Husband of congressional candidate suffers small stroke
John Motsinger, the husband of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school board member and 5th Congressional district candidate Elisabeth Motsinger, had a mild stroke last week, his wife said.
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Concussion study will focus on Reagan, not Reynolds, football team
A brain-injury study expected to include the Reynolds High School football team, which lost a player in 2008 to an on-field head injury, will include Reagan High School's team instead.
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Paisley magnet school move unlikely, making parents and alumni happy
A contemplated move for Paisley IB Magnet School has been all but scrapped, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools Superintendent Don Martin said this week.
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Traffic will be heavy near campus entrances for Wake Forest graduation Monday
Wake Forest University will be closed to through traffic for its commencement ceremony on Monday from 5:30 a.m. until about noon.
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Teachers get results
In the two-year life of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund's $175,000-per-teacher science and math grants program, only 10 teachers have won the money.
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School bond talks coming, decisions loom on Brunson, Paisley, RJR Stadium
The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school board will start negotiations soon with county commissioners on a school construction package that could run as high as $223.7 million.
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At UNC graduation, Bloomberg blasts N.C. marriage vote
New York Mayor and financial media mogul Michael Bloomberg told nearly 5,700 UNC Chapel Hill graduates Sunday they could glean some of the most useful lessons about life from a familiar source.
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Non-traditional Early College graduates first high school class in Forsyth County
Early College of Forsyth, a local school system program that offers college credit to high school students, graduated its first class Thursday.
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Evangelist slams Obama for stance
In another provocative comment aimed at President Barack Obama, the Rev. Franklin Graham on Thursday accused the president of having "shaken his fist" at God by changing his position on same-sex marriage.
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