#NCED Updates: Coronavirus Edition – UPDATES

Posted on March 14, 2020 by

This installment of NCED Updates covers Coronavirus news impacting schools nationally and at the state level. Various NC education and national headlines are also included.

All updates to this article are preceded by “Update” in bold.

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Guilford County schools teacher arrested for sex acts with a student

Posted on March 14, 2020 by

A Guilford County Public Schools teaching assistant was arrested Thursday, March 12 on suspicion of performing sex acts with a juvenile student in 2019.

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Alamance County bus driver and high school student involved in sexual assault of middle schooler on a bus

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An Alamance -Burlington Public Schools bus driver who has also been a coach and a high school student are both facing multiple assault charges that allegedly took place on a school bus.

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The WCPSS plan to reassign your kid based on “Socioeconomic Index” scores

Posted on March 9, 2020 by

Since last Spring, I’ve written several times about the Wake County School Board’s plan to reassign students based on a combination of numbers that make up a “socioeconomic index” as a proxy for race.  I was asked to consolidate the information, hence this article.

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New Hanover Band teacher indicted, additional counts added

Posted on March 9, 2020 by

New Hanover Public Schools Band teacher Peter Frank has been indicted on over a dozen counts in connection with his arrest on 12 sex-related felonies involving students of the district.

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Wake County High School English teacher assigns a very “graphic” novel (Update: NOVEL PULLED)

Posted on March 8, 2020 by

On the reading list of an English III class at Apex Friendship High School in Wake County sits a book that holds a consistent place on the top ten list of most challenged books in the country. That book is the graphic novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel.

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Highlights of the Annual School Crime Report for 2018-19

Posted on March 8, 2020 by

The annual school crime report was published and these are the main highlights, which include an increase in sexual related assaults and assault on school staff.

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