Seth Prevette, finance director for the Wilkes County schools, said told the Wilkes school board during its April 8 meeting that multiple factors are having a cumulative adverse impact on
Wilkes School Superintendent Mark Byrd noted the March 7 death of Rebecca Johnson Mastin, who retired effective this past July 1 after a 30-year career in the Wilkes County Schools,
The majority of Wilkes County school board members appear to favor joining the growing number of school districts defying a 2004 state law that limits how early the school year