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National Board Certification provides teachers not only with increased status and respect but also in many states with actual monetary incentives. As the school year is winding down, this is a great time to begin investigating and working on National Board Certification. This profile can help you learn more about the basics and lead you [...]

So…here I am. I am terribly sorry that I have not posted in about four gazillion years. I will refrain from offering numerous lame excuses.
These past two or three weeks I have been consumed by fear, dread, anxiety, and various other traumatic emotions while I await my scores for NBPTS. Traditionally scores have been returned [...]

Ballentine Elementary teacher Bob Pierrie has begun the year of hard work that will result in his earning certification from the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards. Pierrie has begun downloading information from the NBPTS website and has begun to sign up to work with other WCPSS teachers seeking certification this year.

A Durban municipal resolution that would have seen schools throughout Durban protected by speed humps and truck height restrictions being implemented in the Bluff region will not be acted on in 2008.
This comes after council speaker James Nxumalo blocked the tabling of more notices of motion that were to be discussed at the December 4 [...]

After a request from the Lyon County Education Association not to re-enact a suspension of the early retirement incentive policy, in which teachers mainly may have up to three years of retirement credit purchased if they meet certain criteria, the Lyon County School District Board of Trustees delayed any action.
The payments are made to the [...]

Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools were on a two hour delay because of the weather, and schools are closed in Watauga, Alleghany and Ashe counties.
The Triad got a dusting of snow early this morning, and parts of the mountains of Northwest North Carolina got up to four inches.
Temperatures were above freezing in the Triad this morning and [...]

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stepped up the intensity and are eating super lean for a month or so and want to take it to the next level, then add some extra activities to your schedule several times a week. These could include anything where you get active [...]

GRAFTON — Kenneth Mikolon, a Taylor County man wanted on sex charges, was found by U.S. Marshals Tuesday in New Mexico, WBOY reported.
Mikolon was found at a campground near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Enforcement officials also discovered an assault rifle, a shot gun, four pistols and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in Mikolon’s [...]

Guilford County Schools will have to send about $5 million back to the state, as a result of mandatory state budget cutbacks and lower-than-expected enrollment growth.
About $2.8 million of that total is due to the decline in state revenue that has forced budget cuts at all state government offices. Between $2 million and $2.3 million [...]

GREENSBORO — Amid national economic crisis, the state taking money back and Green
sboro budget cutbacks, Guilford County’s budget appears to be somewhat safe.

Even so, a few programs in county departments have been cut because of the state’s r
equest to take money back in this budget year.
A plan to start intense drug rehabilitation services for the [...]