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We requested data from the school district to better understand commuting times and distances of teachers and staff in our school district

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District is the second largest employer in Orange County, after UNC-Chapel Hill.

Here's what we learned

Notable:

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro 2022-23 Teacher of the Year commutes from Virginia
'It's a struggle': CHCCS teachers choose between expensive housing or long commutes (The Daily Tar Heel)

We're launching the Chapel Hill Inclusion Project and we need your help

We’re launching a project to understand and catalogue the extent of exclusionary neighborhoods in Chapel Hill – i.e., neighborhoods that only allow the most expensive types of homes – in hopes of helping the Town and current homeowners build more welcoming neighborhoods.

Learn more and sign up

How we’re answering the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools survey on the school bus shortage

If you have a kid in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, you received an ominous automated phone call, text, and email yesterday encouraging you to fill out a survey about school bus transportation.

We believe that the Chapel Hill and Carrboro school bus issues speak to the wider need for safe streets and greenways. We think the school district should work with the Town of Chapel Hill and NCDOT to provide safe and convenient pathways for students to use to bike to school over longer distances.

This could include....

We requested data from the school district to better understand commuting times and distances of teachers and staff in our school district

We're launching the Chapel Hill Inclusion Project and we need your help

How we’re answering the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools survey on the school bus shortage

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