Seventy-First High School Arabic Educator Named Foreign Language Teacher of The Year
Since joining Seventy-First High School in 2023, Arabic teacher Najoua Ben Ramak has built an Arabic program that students describe as welcoming, challenging, and rooted in cultural connection.
Column: County’s principal of the year challenges fellow educators to be their best for students every day
Always the educator, Erica Fenner-McAdoo left the 2023 Convocation and Cumberland County Schools Premier Professionals “red carpet” awards reception with a lesson and a challenge for the hundreds of principals, assistant principals, teachers and teacher assistants who gathered Tuesday at the Crown Complex ballroom.
Former Douglas Byrd Middle School teacher charged with sex offense
A former teacher at Douglas Byrd Middle School has been charged with a sex offense involving a student, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office. Brittan Phillips was arrested Monday on charges of felony sex offense with a student and felony crimes against nature, according to a news release.
Former Cumberland County substitute teacher charged with indecent liberties with student
A former substitute teacher with Cumberland County Schools was arrested Tuesday and charged with two counts of taking indecent liberties with a student and eight counts of felonious restraint.
Teacher at E. Melvin Honeycutt faces drug charges
A first-grade teacher at E. Melvin Honeycutt Elementary School is one of two people facing trafficking and other drug charges, the Fayetteville Police Department said. Antonisha Chambers, 34, and Bradford Gordon, 29, both of the 2500 block of Cumberland Creek Drive, are accused of trafficking methamphetamine, the Police Department said in a release.