On Monday, April 28, Action Greensboro unveiled its “2025 Pre-K to 12 Public Education Report,” which is meant to be “a comprehensive, data-driven assessment of the current state of education in Guilford County.”

 The report highlights the major challenges currently facing the county’s public school system while offering what Action Greensboro calls “a clear-eyed roadmap for improving outcomes for every child, regardless of zip code.”

This wide-ranging report released this week looks at things like early childhood access, academic performance, school funding, teacher workforce trends, enrollment shifts and student support services…

The North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association hosted sheriffs, top staff from sheriff’s offices, as well as other state and federal officials from across North Carolina this week at their annual Spring Meeting in New Hanover County where they talked about all things law enforcement.

Founded in 1922, the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association is a statewide not-for-profit professional and educational organization that was created to bring the state’s 100 sheriffs together at times during the year in order to strengthen the law enforcement profession in the state and to improve services their offices provide to the people of North Carolina…

The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office arrested an alleged killer over a month and a half ago; however, until Saturday, April 26, the identity of the victim remained a mystery.

This weekend, the Sheriff’s Office reported that its Major Crimes Investigative Unit had identified the victim of the homicide in Jamestown.

The victim was a 33-year-old Honduran man named Jose Margarito Alvarez-Espinal…

Everybody knows things are getting more costly these days, and one of those things that’s become very costly indeed for Guilford County government is providing translation services for the increasing number of non-English speakers who live in the county and use the county’s health services.

At the Thursday, May 1 meeting of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, the board is expected to approve a one-year extension of its contract with Pacific Interpreters, which will provide over-the-phone and remote video interpreting services for the Public Health Division of the Guilford County Department of Health and Human Services…

On Friday, April 25, and Saturday, April 26, organized protests in Greensboro – as well as in other cities across the world – are taking place in a global effort that’s calling for some eye-opening and lofty changes in the structure of the housing market in the US and worldwide. The stated effort of the group is “to reclaim homes, resist evictions, and demand an end to housing injustice.”

The group doing the organizing in Greensboro is the American Friends Service Committee – a Quaker organization that works on housing issues in Greensboro….