Durham Public Schools will host a job fair this Saturday, April 13th from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

  Looks like Durham will join Wake county and others in returning students back to classroom learning. Earlier this year the board voted to stay all virtual for the rest of the year but then came another bill proposal.  Last night the board voted 4-3  to return to the classroom on March 15. Read more […]

A partnership between Durham Public Schools, Durham County Government, the Durham Public Schools Foundation and local nonprofits and restaurants organized as “Durham FEAST,” will launch a new meal support program for children and families starting on Thursday, April 16, 2020. Families coming to school sites across Durham County will receive free children’s breakfasts and lunches […]

Today will be the final day that parents of children in the Durham Public Schools district can pick up meals for their children. DPS will distribute a week’s worth of meals to families Monday. Last week one of the DPS employees working at the distribution site tested positive for COVID-19. DPS will also send out […]

  Thousands of  year-round students head back to the classroom today in Durham and Cumberland counties. In Durham, five schools — Easley Elementary, Holt Elementary, Pearsontown Elementary, Rogers-Herr Middle School and The School for Creative Studies — will reopen for more than 3,000 year-round students. In Cumberland County, 16 school buses will be on the […]

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Durham public school officials held a special work session Monday ahead of a court hearing surrounding their repeatedly low-performing schools.