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March 8, 2026

PowerSchool

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2025 Year in Review: Year of change, tumult in public education

December 26, 2025 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — In 2025, North Carolina’s K-12 education saw a new state superintendent, decreases in teacher attrition, small decreases in school crime and the naming of various educators of the year. The year kicked off […]

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State extends parts of PowerSchool contract

July 10, 2025 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — At a called meeting of the North Carolina State Board of Education on June 23, the board voted unanimously to approve a short-term contract extension with PowerSchool, the student data system used by the state that suffered a global data breach near the end of […]

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Plea agreement ties 19-year-old to PowerSchool data breach

May 30, 2025 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — A 19-year-old has pleaded guilty to cybercrimes, including the December 2024 data breach of PowerSchool, a student and teacher information database system with 55 million users worldwide. Matthew D. Lane, a resident of […]

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20 NC districts emailed by “threat actors” related to PowerSchool data breach

May 9, 2025 A.P. Dillon

Emails from “threat actors” were received by 20 North Carolina school districts on May 7 per the N.C. Department of Public Instruction. The emails are linked to a data breach involving the statewide school information […]

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NC schools among impacted by PowerSchool breach

January 23, 2025 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — PowerSchool, the data system used in North Carolina to track student information and grades, reported a data breach that occurred near the end of December. PowerSchool is used by 55 million students spanning 90 countries […]

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Claims about changes to fields in state’s K-12 data system are untrue

February 22, 2022 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — Claims that North Carolina’s student data and grading system is allowing students to change their gender and name without parental permission are unfounded, according to information from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction. […]

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