Column: 6 Books To Help Thrive During the New School Year
Summer is over for Cumberland County students. Reading is a good way to help them focus on the new school year and ease back into it.
Column: Education as a Bridge to the Future
Celebrating 2 educators whose journeys began in different corners of Latin America but whose commitment to children found a shared home in Fayetteville.
Back-to-School: Everything Cumberland Families Should Know Before the First Bell
From updated cellphone rules to new school leaders and attendance expectations, here’s what parents should know before the 2026-27 school year begins.
Column: Plowing to the End of the Row
Columnist Claire Mullen on how a catchphrase from her elementary school principal rings true today as she rallies her family with new-school-year enthusiasm.
Eric Bracy’s North Star
After navigating school closures, budget pressures, and a new strategic plan, the superintendent discusses his first year leading Cumberland County Schools.
Column: CityView’s August Magazine Gets You Back-to-School Ready
The new issue includes an interview with Superintendent Eric Bracy, a back-to-school guide, and columnists on classroom nostalgia, teachers, parenting, and books.
Column: Pay the Dadgum Teachers
Public funding for public education—required by our state constitution—hasn’t kept pace with our needs in the past two decades.
More Back to School issue Coverage
2025 ‘of the Year’ finalists
Cumberland County Schools’ Principal and Assistant Principal of the Year finalists share what it means to be considered among the best in the public school system.
The new kid
As families come and go along the military highway, it’s very commonplace for the halls of our schools to be graced with lots of unfamiliar faces at the beginning of each year, and if you’re like me and have ever been the “new kid,” you know that it ain’t exactly easy.
Best of the bunch
Cumberland County Schools’ ‘Of the Year’ honorees talk student engagement, staying refreshed
Gotcha’ Back School Kickoff
This summer, 400 students from kindergarten through high school will receive a backpack stuffed with items they need to start school on the right foot.
Rich in community
Kimmi Nettles, scholarship manager at Cumberland Community Foundation, a nonprofit that funds a variety of community betterment projects, knows firsthand how intimidating navigating the college financial system can be. In the process of going to college, she said she was never aware of scholarship opportunities — now, she’s aiming to change that in Cumberland County.
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