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The search is on for a new Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools superintendent as Nyah Hamlett prepares to resign at the end of June. Her contract was not set to expire until 2027.
Applications are due on April 14 and a draft timeline has set hopes of a final announcement by May 30.
“For over 20 years, I’ve made decisions in the best interest of thousands of children,” Hamlett, who is taking a job in Maryland, recently said in an emotional speech to the board. “It’s now time to make an unapologetic decision in the best interest of the three children that I gave birth to.”
“Since January of 2021, I’ve taken the Michelle Obama ‘when they go low, we go high’ approach to the false narratives, misogynoir and personal attacks, the threats to the safety of my family, and blatant attempts to undermine my leadership and my character,” Hamlett said.
Any successful candidate will certainly have done their homework by learning more about this specific CHCCS board and its equity priorities, as well as the, uh, circumstances that seem to have pushed Hamlett out.
We’ll have updates on this story through the spring. Have a good Wednesday.
—Chase
Correction: Yesterday’s Daily incorrectly attributed a story about Manifest Music Festival to Sarah Edwards. The article was written for INDY by Grace Yannotta.
Durham
The city of Durham is getting $4.5 million from a nationwide settlement with opioid makers. The first $1 million will go toward medication-assisted treatment, mobile treatment units, and a safe syringe program, INDY’s Justin Laidlaw reports.
Wake
Under President Trump, the U.S. Department of Education has canceled a grant program that recruited teachers to high-need schools and offered them tuition assistance and other support, calling the program “divisive.” INDY’s Chloe Courtney Bohl talks to one of the 133 Wake County teachers hired through the program last year.
Orange
A neighborly dispute over feeding vultures in Hillsborough has put a spotlight on wildlife feeding, our partners at The Assembly report.
North Carolina
Judge Jefferson Griffin is opposing a request that a colleague on the Court of Appeals who donated $5,000 to his legal defense fund recuse himself from hearing Griffin’s challenge to 60,000 ballots in the state Supreme Court race, NC Newsline reports.
Senate leader Phil Berger wants to repeal a requirement set by the legislature mandating that Duke Energy significantly curtail carbon dioxide emissions by 2030. Opponents say the proposal would let Duke Energy off the hook, WUNC reports.
Today’s weather
Sunny with a high of 82 degrees.
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