Catawba Valley News & Weather reported that Catawba County Schools filed a 23-page informational brief with the State Board on the county’s three-district merger plan, saying it takes no side while listing crowded elementary schools and $98.9 million in repair needs.
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In a brief filed Oct. 5, the Hickory City Schools Board of Education asks the State Board of Education to reject Catawba County’s three-district merger plan, citing an unresolved boundary question, lost state funding and no independent study of student outcomes.
CATAWBA COUNTY — Catawba County Board of Education Chairman Tim Settlemyre and Vice Chair April…
Hickory High School automotive teacher Terry Drum is among the national winners of the 2026 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence.
Superintendent Jennifer Griffin told the Hickory City Schools board on Sept. 28 that the district has seen a decrease of about 100 students, and that the change will figure in next year’s budget.
The League of Women Voters of Catawba Valley says every candidate for county commissioner and the Catawba County Schools board is scheduled for public forums Oct. 1 and Oct. 8 at the main library in Newton.
A federal rule that can end student loans for low-earning college programs will not, on the numbers now public, cut off loans for students at Challenger Early College, the school Catawba County, Hickory and Newton-Conover share.
The North Carolina School Boards Association’s Silver Bell Award recognizes boards whose members all worked toward 12 hours of training in a school year. Catawba County Schools says its board received the award Monday night.
The Catawba County Board of Education removed proposed Policy 9.2500, which would limit school flag displays to the U.S., North Carolina, military, POW/MIA and school flags, from its Monday night agenda without a vote. No reason or new date was given at the meeting.
MAIDEN — Brian Hefner has resigned as principal of Maiden High School, effective Thursday, Sept.…