Union Academy Charter School
Union Academy Charter School held a special board meeting Thursday to explain how it’s handling security and background checks after a teacher died in a shootout that law officers say involved a stash-house robbery.
Tuesday evening, the K-12 charter school in Monroe held a memorial for Barney Harris, a highly regarded Spanish teacher, basketball and track coach who died last week.
The next day, school officials heard Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson say in a news conference that Harris had been shot multiple times while trying to rob a stash house associated with a Mexican drug cartel.
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Ken Stanley, a longtime teacher at Union Academy Charter School, died Saturday after contracting COVID-19.
Stanley was a middle school math teacher and coach at the K-12 school in Monroe. The school s communications director, Jennifer Smith, said Stanley had taught in person this fall, but the school had switched to remote learning in January, when he fell ill with COVID-19. She said to the best of her knowledge, it has not been determined how it was transmitted.
Head of School John Marshall said in a statement that Stanley was kind, tender and loved his students deeply. He was a model to others for being a dad, a parent, a teacher, a friend, and a loved one. He was an expert at connecting with people, said fellow teacher Beth Rushing.