With a rally expecting to draw thousands of educators from across the Piedmont next week, some area school districts are canceling classes for students based on teacher absence requests.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, Orange County Schools and Chatham County Schools each made updates to their respective calendars in the last week ahead of an expected rally on Friday, May 1 in Raleigh. The North Carolina Association of Educators is organizing a demonstration, titled as the “Kids Over Corporations Rally,” which is expected to draw thousands of North Carolina educators and supporters in the latest large-scale push to advocate for more state funding for public schools.
CHCCS alerted its families on Thursday, April 16 that it would convert May 1 from a normal day of instruction to a teacher workday with no class. Because of banked time from its normal school days and lack of other cancellations so far in the academic year, the district said it would not need to make up any instructional hours from the change…