An acclaimed Raleigh principal is now North Carolina s Principal of the Year T. Keung Hui, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
May 21 CARY The leader of Raleigh s oldest public high school is now the top principal in the state.
Elena Ashburn, the principal of Broughton High School near downtown Raleigh, was named the 2021 Wells Fargo North Carolina Principal of the Year on Friday. Ashburn becomes the first Wake County principal to win the honor since the state began the program in 1984.
Ashburn was praised at Friday s ceremony at the Umstead Hotel in Cary for her leadership during the past year of the coronavirus pandemic. Ashburn said that the state and nation are at a pivotal time right now in public education.