Schools

Willow Springs Elementary School is in the running in an online contest to win a $500,000 grant from Kohl's.

Two North Raleigh sites and one in Apex have made the Wake County school system's short list for a potential share of a $59 million pot to build new schools.

A Wake County school board committee charged with improving the performance of low-income students gave a warm response Thursday to an advocacy group's recommendations for easing the district's str...

Local high school graduates Thomas Barnett and Kishore Kalagnanam earned Progress Energy Merit Award Scholarships. Progress awards the scholarships to qualifying college-bound children of company e...

Christina Rudd teaches mathematics at Cary High School and was named the school's teacher of the year for 2010. Rudd has taught at Cary High for 12 years and has served as the school's junior varsi...

The new schools added to the list include Panther Creek High at No. 948, the only school in the top 1,000.

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A growing Triangle private school is set to open its first Raleigh campus by next summer.

The number of western Wake schools that met federal No Child Left Behind standards declined in 2009-10, according to preliminary results released last week by the N.C. Department of Public Instruct...

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Steve West teaches English as a second language at Panther Creek High School in Cary and was named the school's teacher of the year for 2010. He has been teaching at Panther Creek High for two years.

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For a listing of area schools, go to www.carynews.com/schools/directory/story/1577.html. Please send your schoo...

Teachers put faces with names and students put pencils to paper for the first time at Alston Ridge Elementary on Friday.

School officials executed a lease to increase its space to 175,000 square feet at Crossroads Corporate Park, located off Dillard Drive near Crossroads shopping center in Cary.

Wake County school board members will have to decide whether the best way to spend $59 million in school construction savings is on building two elementary schools.

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Carole Barber is the 2010 teacher of the year at Fuquay-Varina High School, an honor bestowed on her by the school's faculty.

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As a parent or student new to Cedar Fork Elementary, the first person you might see in the front office is Doreen Elliot. Even over the summer, the data manager greets new families and prepares kin...