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UNC opts to raise tuition
As scores of angry students held a raucous protest, the UNC board of governors voted Friday to increase tuition across the system of 16 university campuses by an average of nearly 9 percent, or more than $400.
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East Forsyth High officer disciplined after coach's tirade against student
The Kernersville school police officer who tasered an East Forsyth High School student to break up a fight last month and later sat in on a coach's profanity-laced tirade against a different student has been suspended without pay for five days and removed from the school, the Kernersville Police Department said Friday.
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Energy costs push schools to save
Duke Energy's rate increases, which went into effect Feb. 1, will cost the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school system about $528,000 more a year in electricity costs, the system said this week.
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UNC panel supports increases in tuition
A UNC Board of Governors committee has recommended a proposal that would see college costs rise by more than $400 per student on average.
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School gardens a tool for learning, helping
The plots are small, but the soil is dark and the cause is good on a hillside at Forsyth Country Day School.
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Motsinger OK after car wreck
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school board member and congressional candidate Elisabeth Motsinger was in a car accident Tuesday night.
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UNC campuses scheduled for new fee, tuition increases
UNC students who pay in-state rates are facing a more than $400 tuition increase, despite President Barack Obama's warning that schools could lose funding if they don't find ways to keep costs down.
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TEDx conference set for Feb. 25 at Wake Forest
TEDx, an offshoot of the popular TED talks, is coming to Wake Forest University.
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Texting, social media prove problematic for teachers across the country
In a world that includes 24-hour access to communication — cellphones, text messaging, social media websites, email — the question of whether teachers should text their students is one of the most thorny and divisive facing educators, experts say.
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Students learn to 'read anywhere' – even on an exercise bike
In a trailer behind Ward Elementary School, students may be doing two of the best things they can for their future: reading and exercising.
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Student's recording brings threats
The case of an East Forsyth student whose family made public a conversation he recorded that contains cursing and threats from a teacher and the school's police officer has prompted a huge outpouring of comments and a vigorous debate over how the situation was handled.
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Excerpts of taped conversation at East Forsyth High School
These are excerpts of an audiotape of a conversation that student Dillon Tschrnko recorded in East Forsyth High School's cafeteria with softball coach Mike Muse and school resource officer James Deeney. They are discussing texts that Muse and Deeney sent to a female student who was friends with Tschrnko.
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East Forsyth coach, school resource officer recorded threatening, cursing at student
A popular East Forsyth High School coach and a school police officer were recorded confronting a 15-year-old student in a profanity-laden tirade that included threats to financially ruin the boy's family because he questioned how many texts the men sent to a 16-year-old female student.
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Local students to share the gavel in spring youth assembly
A pair of Triad seniors, one from Salem Academy and the other from Ledford High School in Thomasville, will serve as co-speakers of the House this March when young people across the state convene their version of North Carolina's General Assembly.
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Education brings freedom, activist tells students
Freedom doesn't count for much without an education, because "you can't be free in America" when you're broke, a civil rights activist, Marquette University professor and education reformer told local students recently.
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Dean's Lists, Graduates, etc.
Here are links to lists of 2011 graduates and dean’s, etc., lists for North Carolina Schools. More links will be added as the information becomes available.
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Forsyth Academy instructor named N.C. charter school teacher of the year
North Carolina's top charter school teacher this year teaches at Forsyth Academy in Winston-Salem, according to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction.
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Mayors face tough fight in gubernatorial race
When Gov. Bev Perdue announced last week that she would not run for a second term, waves rolled through the state Democratic Party, churning up names for her possible replacement.
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Wake Forest names new provost from NYU
The pull on his heartstrings brought Rogan Kersh back to Wake Forest University, but so did the opportunity to guide his alma mater to new academic terrain.
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Carter G. Woodson kids, others, head to mock trial competition
A little secret to lawyering: You don't always have to know what you're talking about, as long as you're confident.
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Guilford Tech, Forsyth Tech, DCCC and Randolph County community colleges partner on logistics center
Four community colleges in the Triad will manage the new N.C. Global Logistics Center, which will work with companies to help them move their materials around the world.
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Winston-Salem app developers at Surry Community College think iPhone apps are for babies
Blake Leftwich and fellow computer-game builders Mike Oder and Job Girvan noticed how parents would sometimes hand an iPhone to a baby or toddler while in the grocery line.
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South Stokes High School dismissing at noon because of water main break
Students at South Stokes High School in Walnut Cove will be getting out of school at noon today because of a nearby water main break, school officials said today.
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Trove of N.C. teacher evaluation data online, with more to come
Interpreting the data
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Wake trustees will vote on construction of two new dorms
Two new residence halls will be built on the north end of Wake Forest University's campus, pending approval from the board of trustees at its February meeting.
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