In less than two weeks students will return to their virtual classrooms for the start of the 2020 school year. To help shed some light on what learning will look like here in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County, last week Superintendent Angela Hairston participated in a virtual town hall where she discussed ‘Plan C’ and answered questions from the community.
Education
Livingstone offers incentives to local students to avoid college deferral
With the start of fall classes just weeks away, a Wake Forest University professor is examining challenges families faced with remote learning.
The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools (WS/FCS) Board of Education voted to continue remote learning for all students for at least the first nine weeks of the 2020-21 school year.
Public schools will reopen this fall with several restrictions, but students across the state will have the option to continue remote learning. During a press conference on Tuesday, July 14, Gov. Roy Cooper announced that K-12 public schools across the state will open under Plan B, which calls for schools to limit the capacity in school facilities and on transportation vehicles and includes a mask requirement.
Earlier this week Superintendent Dr. Angela P. Hairston provided more information on what schools could look like at the start of the 2020-21 school year.
Winston-Salem’s newest public charter school, B.L.U.E. – G.R.E.E.N. Academy, announced to current parents on Friday, that it will not reopen in the fall at 3683-B Old Lexington Rd. The school will close and relinquish the charter on June 30, the last day of the fiscal year.
Each year the Alpha Pi Lambda chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. in Winston-Salem provides scholarships valued at $1,000 each to deserving African American and minority males in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School system through its Youth Life Skills Institute, Inc. Foundation.
Winston-Salem Street School celebrates Class of 2020
State leaders have unveiled guidelines to reopen public schools in the fall, but a final decision isn’t expected to be made until later this month.
