Guilford County Schools

They made to an off-campus early voting site after UNCG and NCANT lost campus polling locations for this midterm election.

And finally, as well in Greensboro, Guilford County Schools announcing 20th day enrollment was nearly 2,000 students below its roughly 65,000 student projection.

Officials cited declining birth rates, housing conditions, and growing use of alternative schooling.

Because state allocations follow enrollment, the shortfall is expected to mean less funding and likely budget reductions coming into the next year.

It's what's happening right now.

Guilford County Schools and law enforcement are investigating an incident involving a school bus.

The district had not publicly disclosed a ton of information about this, but it appears that a student punched a driver on that bus and caused the bus driver to be concussed.

Temperatures began early this morning in the 40s out there, with dry and comfortable conditions expected throughout the remainder of this week.

This is, this is not, this is not the way this is supposed to go.

And if I was anybody associated with Grimsley, if I was Guilford County Schools, who has now come out and shared comments that we'll have for you, if I was any of those people, I would be pretty upset.

Especially given what some of the band members are quoted as saying that the police officers told them in, uh, that incident on Friday.

So we'll have that for you.

I'd rather see this.

But then if you've got all of that build up, all of that excitement, and you try to crush it on some high school kids that are out on a Friday night looking to not only do what they're being asked to do by the way, play, play as part of the, the Grimsley band, but you shut that down? I don't, I don't like any of it.

Now, Guilford County Schools went ahead and responded, and this does nothing for me.

But from their words, the direct quote is, "Guilford County Schools is aware of the decision by officials at Varina High School to direct law enforcement to escort the Grimsley High School band out of the stadium.

And today we have a special guest, Dr. Whitney Oakley.

She is the superintendent of Guilford County Schools.

which serves more than 66,000 K-12 students in that district, which is located around Greensboro, North Carolina.

And they have some very interesting projects ongoing called the Guilford Promise that we're going to talk about.

If it's books and fees, we go to our philanthropic partners.

So we all have shared ownership and the consistent communication relationship building is really what's made it progress.

As I understand it, in researching a little bit about your program, Guilford County Schools has partnerships with employers, I think like Toyota, HondaJet, Cone Health.

What have employers told you they need most from today's education systems? And how has that shaped your thinking about the pathways that they're building?