Press Releases
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Governor Closes School Facilities for Remainder of 2019-20
Earlier this afternoon, Governor Roy Cooper closed all North Carolina public schools for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year. Don’t worry Haywood County Schools Family, “we got this.” Together, […]
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Temporary Hourly Pay Increase for Hourly Employees
The state recently provided supplemental funding to school systems to support additional expenditures related to activities associated with the closure of school during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many school systems across […]
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Pending Weather Notification: Food Distribution by Buses
This is a special potential weather notification. Winter weather could impact some food distribution by buses. Most weather models are predicting snow from around midnight until 11:00 a.m. in some […]
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Academic Update for Students, Parents, Staff, and Community
This academic update follows a lengthy webinar by the NC Department of Public Education (DPI) on Friday and Special Called Electronic Meetings with principals. High school principals met this morning. […]
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Employee Information: Transition to Long-Term Closure
We are so proud of the HCS family of employees. There are over 1,000 of us with different jobs, roles, and responsibilities. You are to be commended for all that […]
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HCS Spring Break Update
This is a follow up to an Emergency Electronic Meeting of the Haywood County School Board. The Emergency Electronic Meeting was held earlier this evening at 8:00 p.m. During the […]
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Teachers Directed to Work Remotely
Yesterday, Governor Cooper announced the closure of all schools through May 15, 2020. Prior to this directive, teachers had the choice of working on-site or remotely. Beginning, Wednesday, March 25, […]
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School Closed through May 15, 2020
Today, Monday, March 23, 2020, Governor Cooper announced the closure of all schools through May 15, 2020. We already have plans in place to provide remote education. In the coming […]
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Superintendent’s Message: Likely Extension of School Closure
This release was written at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday morning (3/21/20). Currently, there are no specific announcements from the governor that the school closing through March 29th will be extended. […]
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School System Transitions to Essential Services Operations
Today, we completed the establishment of ongoing educational support for students and the procedures for ongoing food delivery services for our 7,000 students in 15 schools. Faculty and staff, you […]