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Included in Buncombe County Schools’ 2021-22 budget request was $78,154 for a 340% wage increase for board members. BCS Superintendent Tony Baldwin told the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners during the May 10 budget meeting the raise will be the board’s first since the late 1980s.
Baldwin did not say why board members’ stipends have not gone up in three decades. School board chair Ann Franklin said the board’s pay hadn’t even been evaluated since the 80s.
“Why now? Well I’m not a board member, but I’m a superintendent that is working through COVID. Needless to say, stresses have come,” Baldwin said. “Certainly, I think, (the raise) would highlight the importance and responsibility that comes to those board members.”
Southern Alamance High Schoolâs Yearbook Documented What Happened This School Year. Parents Are Furious.
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Your high school yearbook is for memorializing what life was like in your last years of childhood. The football games, the school plays, and the photos of brace-faced freshman and shawl-and-tux-clad seniors.
Oftentimes, yearbooks will also preserve national phenomena in the extra pages in the book, which is what Southern Alamance High School did in its 2020-2021 edition. Now, pages documenting a summer of protests around the world and in their county have parents calling for action against the yearbook team, the advisor, and the school administration.