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The principal and an assistant principal at Terry Sanford High School in Fayetteville are under investigation.
Gilbert Baez, WRAL Fayetteville reporter
Roughly 200 students from four high schools joined a youth summit on Thursday in a partnership between Cumberland County Schools and Fayetteville State University.
Jeremy Osborne admits he cussed at a school bus driver, but his aunt says that's no excuse for what she believes was an assault.
Cassie Brunson says her nephew, an 8th grader at Anne Chesnutt Middle School, came home with a dislocated collarbone on Thursday afternoon.
Aaron Thomas, WRAL reporter
E. E. Smith High School is currently located at 1800 Seabrook Road in Fayetteville. School leaders are looking to put a new school on a new piece of land almost twice the size, at the intersection of Honeycutt Road and Parham Boulevard.
Eric Miller, WRAL reporter
Superintendent Dr. Marvin Connelly blames the "pay compression" for school bus drivers - the small gap between new hires and long-time service - on a state requirement that newly hired bus drivers be paid $15 per hour.
Currently, new bus drivers hired by the district get paid $15 an hour, while current drivers get $15.93. Drivers who have been with the school district for years said that's a problem.
How much school bus drivers in our area get paid is leading to a protest. It starts at 5 a.m. in Cumberland County, and some families will be need to find another way to get their kids to school.
Cumberland County school bus drivers are sick of not being paid enough. This morning they'll begin a "sick out" in protest of their current pay.
Gilbert Baez and Nia Harden, WRAL reporters
A Fayetteville woman was charged with trespassing on a school bus.
Cumberland County School leaders are concerned about an increase in confrontations between parents and school bus drivers.
A woman was charged with trespassing on a school bus in Cumberland County. Cumberland County deputies charged Alexis Nideyah Beard on Friday morning.
Students at Gray's Creek Elementary and Alderman Road Elementary schools in Cumberland County have been drinking bottled water for three years due to safety concerns after thousands of wells in the area were tainted with "forever chemicals" from a Chemours plant.
Administrators at Cape Fear High School are working to ease the fear of parents and students after a 16-year-old student with special needs broke into the high school's internet page and threatened to "shutdown" the Jan. 13 home basketball game.
Fayetteville police arrested a 16-year-old for making online threats on social media to shoot-up Cape Fear High School in Cumberland County. The threats reportedly included a manifesto and hit list.
This is the second year Cumberland County Schools has taken part in the national Bikes for Kids program, co-founded by former Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon.
It was an exciting day for 80 third-graders at Westarea Elementary School in Fayetteville. The students took part in an essay writing contest in hopes of winning one of five donated bikes.
There were 23 students, en route to Pine Forest High School, and a driver on board the bus when it rolled over near the intersection of Slocomb Road and Ramsey Street outside of Fayetteville.
Brett Knese and Lora Lavigne, WRAL reporters
A student 'did the right thing' in reporting a concern to teachers. It ended up not being a threat at Seventy-First High School.
Cumberland County Sheriff Ennis Wright told WRAL News that a student's report of a suspicious person on campus at Seventy-First High School turned out to be unfounded Friday morning.
Gilbert Baez, WRAL Fayetteville reporter & Matt Talhelm, WRAL reporter
Dr. Marvin Connelly, Jr., superintendent for Cumberland County Schools, said the district is short 85 classroom teachers and short 115 non-certified staff members, like bus drivers, counselors, social workers, lunch workers and school psychologists.
Where has the summer gone? Hundreds of thousands of students return to traditional calendar schools Monday in districts across North Carolina.
WRAL News
The clock is winding down for thousands of students in central North Carolina to head back to school Monday.
