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• Challenging the paradigm: Environmental educators plant seeds of change

  

  NEWS IN PRINT

  Jake Frankel | 04/17/2013

  Even as corporations spend billions of dollars on advertising and lobbying to encourage maximum consumption, local environmental educators are working hard to shape a more sustainable worldview — one mind at a time. (Pictured: Sarah Duffer; photo by Max Cooper)

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• Those good ol' days

  LETTERS

  Joe Dawson | 03/12/2013

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• Financial aid: Commissioners consider new Asheville schools

  

  NEWS

  Jake Frankel | 03/06/2013

  Asheville City School officials pitched the Buncombe County commissioners on building two new schools March 5, but no decision was made on funding the roughly $65.8 million request.

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• Buncombe Commissioners preview: School choice

  

  NEWS

  Jake Frankel | 03/03/2013

  At their March 5 meeting, Buncombe County commissioners will consider a proposal by the Asheville City Schools system to build new homes for Isaac Dickson Elementary and Asheville Middle schools.

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• VIDEO: Take a look at Asheville Middle School and the new building design

  

  NEWS

  Jake Frankel | 03/01/2013

  In these videos, Asheville Middle School Teacher Terry Wright gives viewers a sense of some of the problems with the facility and architects display some of their plans for a new building to replace it.

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• VIDEO: Tour Isaac Dickson and take a look at the new building design

  

  NEWS

  Jake Frankel | 02/28/2013

  In these videos, Isaac Dickson Principal Brad Johnson gives viewers a sense of some of the problems with the facility and architects display some of their plans for a new building to replace it.

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• Building knowledge: Asheville pushes for new schools

  

  NEWS IN PRINT

  Jake Frankel | 02/27/2013

  Education officials, teachers and even some students are pushing to build cutting-edge new homes for Isaac Dickson Elementary and Asheville Middle School. The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners will consider the proposals soon, some of them questioning the need for high-tech designs when budgets are already stretched thin. Even supporters don’t know where the estimated $60 million cost might come from.

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• A Tale of Two Schools

  

  NEWS IN PRINT

  Jake Frankel | 02/27/2013

  In their push for new state-of-the-art homes for Issac Dickson Elementary and Asheville Middle School, officials say the existing facilities suffer from leaky roofs and windows, unwieldy corridors, mold, insufficient storage, inadequate lighting and antiquated heating and cooling systems.

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• Growing a STEM: Buncombe Commissioners approve new high school

  

  NEWS

  Jake Frankel | 02/20/2013

  The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners unanimously gave a nod of approval to the county school system to create a new high school that will focus on science, technology, engineering and math.

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• Ice Storm Warning for WNC, schools and bus service closed

  NEWS

  David Forbes | 01/25/2013

  The whole region is under an ice storm warning today, as the National Weather Service cautions residents about a "wintry mix" of ice and snow through this afternoon.

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