RALEIGH — It’s been two years since Margaret Spellings took office as the president of the University of North Carolina system, overseeing its 17 campuses. As she moves into her third year, she’s focusing on […]
RALEIGH – Republican state lawmakers on Thursday announced a proposal to address concerns over lowering the K through 3 classroom sizes by phasing in the smaller classes and providing more money for schools to hire […]
RALEIGH — Business leaders and policymakers, Democrats and Republicans, gathered in downtown Raleigh on Monday to hammer out some common ground on education. All agreed that early childhood development played a critical part in the […]
The Innovative School District (ISD) reached a major milestone when the Public Schools of Robeson County School Board recently voted unanimously to transfer Southside Ashpole Elementary in Rowland, N.C., into the ISD. Getting to that […]
RALEIGH — The North Carolina Teaching Fellows Commission announced it selected five partner institutions this week based on legislative criteria and an applications process passed into law by the state legislature. The commission, and the […]
In an age of increasing emphasis on science and technology, many ask the question: “Why study history?” It’s as if the discipline should be relegated to the “dustbin of history,” even when political pundits, for […]
Lawmakers in Washington haven’t accomplished a whole lot this year and as Congress returned from their August recess earlier this month they still had many important issues to tackle, from tax reform, to immigration, […]
KINSTON — Across North Carolina, more than 1.5 million students in K-12 are heading back to the classroom. This means teachers are preparing lesson plans, parents are buying school supplies, football practices have begun and […]
A Wake County Superior Court three judge panel justly pronounced in July that the State Board of Education (SBE), a body of part-time volunteer appointees, is subservient on policy matters to the people’s elected General […]
One of Gov. Roy Cooper’s main thrusts to wrestle power back from Republicans in Raleigh is to bemoan that not enough money is being spent on education. In fact, it was a central theme in […]
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