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new board candidate works for a competitor, a charter school
Published: Thursday, March 26th, 2026 @ 2:36 pm
By: John Steed
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North Carolina students returning for the spring semester are facing a disconnected classroom environment, following a Jan. 1 state deadline that required all public school boards to enact strict bans on the use of smartphones and laptops during instructional time.
Published: Sunday, January 25th, 2026 @ 6:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The event hosted by Harvard Divinity School's Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging will allow participants to 'process the departure' of Claudine Gay
Published: Friday, February 16th, 2024 @ 12:33 pm
By: Daily Wire
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In an end run around a new law that seeks to streamline the process for approving new charter schools, the Democrat-controlled North Carolina Board of Education OK’ed a new policy on Sept. 7 that allows the board to control funding for new charters.
Published: Sunday, December 10th, 2023 @ 10:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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NC Schools Must now follow “Parents Bill of Rights.” Here’s how things will change that’s the title of an article in yesterday’s Raleigh News and Observer that describes how the recently passed legislation will impact the classroom and our schools.
Published: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 2:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A pro-charter schools group in North Carolina is calling out Gov. Roy Cooper for factual errors in his veto message of a new charter schools bill.
Published: Thursday, October 19th, 2023 @ 10:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Remember the good ol' days when you could Tebow in a public-school stadium without fear of losing your job? With football season getting started, The Babylon Bee is here to save the day with a list of other ways besides Tebowing to honor God during a football game.
Published: Saturday, October 14th, 2023 @ 10:24 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Tools4Schools provides state-of-the-art, brand new school supplies to Wake County Public School teachers free of charge
Published: Sunday, October 1st, 2023 @ 7:51 am
By: Governor's Office
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As children across North Carolina head back to school this month, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reminds families that vaccinations are an important part of back-to-school success and overall health and well-being.
Published: Tuesday, August 15th, 2023 @ 1:29 am
By: ENC NOW
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Yesterday the State Senate approved major charter school legislation. HB 618, passed by the Senate on a straight party-line vote, transfers the right to authorize charter schools from the State Board of Education to the newly-created, Charter School Review Board.
Published: Thursday, July 27th, 2023 @ 1:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The factors that go into grading public schools in North Carolina would change under a set of recommendations proposed by an advisory panel in the Department of Public Instruction.
Published: Tuesday, July 18th, 2023 @ 11:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Facing increasing criticism over her handling of school closures around the country during the COVID-19 pandemic, United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten defended herself by saying her actual intention was to open schools in the Opposite World.
Published: Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 @ 5:36 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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East Carolina University leadership in the Miller School of Entrepreneurship and the office of Research, Economic Development and Engagement developed a student entrepreneurship program called RISE29 out of conversations started at Golden LEAF’s Community-Based Grants Initiative meetings in 2018.
Published: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 @ 9:30 pm
By: ENC NOW
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The U.S. Supreme Court will review Friday the case of a charter school in North Carolina labeled a "state actor." School choice supporters believe that type of label could lead to more regulations for charter schools nationwide.
Published: Tuesday, January 24th, 2023 @ 11:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A month after Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won a resounding reelection victory and declared that the state is “where woke goes to die,” the state’s second-largest school system signed a contract with an infamous peddler of “woke” partisanship to children.
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 @ 12:31 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The University of Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic, along with the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty and the Islam and Religious Liberty Action Team of the Religious Freedom Institute, filed an amicus brief in support of Charter Day School in Brunswick County, North Carolina
Published: Sunday, November 20th, 2022 @ 8:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Actor Matthew McConaughey visited Congress shortly after the horrific school shooting in his home town of Uvalde, Texas, and he shared what he learned in a no-holds-barred op-ed that blistered both parties.
Published: Friday, November 11th, 2022 @ 11:42 am
By: Daily Wire
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The pandemic has impacted Wake County Public Schools (WCPSS) in a variety of ways. Achievement gaps have hardened and learning loss has caused many at-risk groups to fall even farther behind.
Published: Thursday, October 6th, 2022 @ 8:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, Politico reported that comedian Dave Chappelle’s old high school, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Georgetown, quietly canceled a fundraiser featuring “The Closer” comedian after students complained about jokes he made regarding transgender individuals.
Published: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022 @ 11:25 am
By: Daily Wire
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As children across North Carolina head back to school this month, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reminds families that vaccinations are an important part of back-to-school success and overall health and well-being.
Published: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 @ 1:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A second-year Yale Law School student who was accused of racism after writing a party invitation has explained why he refused to apologize simply to make the matter go away.
Published: Monday, June 27th, 2022 @ 4:57 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Relatives of Joe Garcia, the husband of Irma Garcia, one of the two teachers murdered in the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, say that he died of a broken heart.
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2022 @ 11:12 am
By: Daily Wire
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Pizza Hut, through its Pizza Hut Foundation, is presenting training pamphlets for teachers that make statements such as “Racism exists within and beyond schools and communities of learning,” “The myth of a racial hierarchy remains a dominant part of America’s culture,”
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2022 @ 9:49 am
By: Daily Wire
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Appearing on Fox News on Wednesday night after the election results in Virginia on Tuesday revealed that parents’ anger at public school policies had driven much of the mammoth win for the Republican Party
Published: Wednesday, December 29th, 2021 @ 11:11 am
By: Daily Wire
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Golden LEAF awards 215 scholarships each year to help rural high school or community college transfer students attend a North Carolina college or university. The scholarship provides funding for undergraduate students for up to four years of study at a participating North Carolina college/university
Published: Tuesday, December 14th, 2021 @ 11:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe was asked by a local journalist to define Critical Race Theory in light of concerns raised by parents in Virginia school districts. He failed, instead suggesting that parents who oppose teaching elements of CRT as part of K-12 curriculum are racist.
Published: Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 @ 10:12 am
By: Daily Wire
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A retired UNC law school constitutional expert says forced removal of Supreme Court justices from consideration of a case would be “particularly dangerous.”
Published: Friday, November 19th, 2021 @ 7:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Public school teachers in North Carolina receive an average annual salary of $53,392 for the current school year, according to the latest figures from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction.
Published: Tuesday, April 13th, 2021 @ 8:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Charter school leaders in North Carolina are urging incoming U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to continue federal support and protection for charters moving forward.
Published: Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 @ 8:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A majority of North Carolina public school students failed to pass end-of-course tests in fall 2020, according to new data from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction.
Published: Sunday, March 7th, 2021 @ 9:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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I commend the Charter Schools Advisory Board (CSAB) for unanimously recommending to the State Board of Education (SBE) that our two statewide virtual public charter schools be permitted to temporarily expand enrollment.
Published: Friday, August 14th, 2020 @ 11:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In the course of covering Gov. Roy Cooper’s nightmare back to school plans, Civitas has been surveying and collecting responses from parents about the possibility of their children returning to school on a part-time basis
Published: Wednesday, July 8th, 2020 @ 1:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Starting today, families impacted by school closings due to COVID-19 are beginning to receive additional food benefits as part of the new Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) program announced by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and the North Carolina Department of
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2020 @ 10:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Vidant Health and the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University are calling on all of eastern North Carolina to do their part to flatten the curve.
Published: Monday, March 23rd, 2020 @ 11:06 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The John Locke Foundation is kicking off National School Choice Week with a talk from Robert Luddy, the creator of several charter and private schools in North Carolina.
Published: Monday, January 27th, 2020 @ 3:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A free foot clinic organized and staffed by ECU’s Brody School of Medicine students for Greenville’s homeless population has grown to provide additional services and better access to care for participants and more experience for students.
Published: Thursday, October 31st, 2019 @ 4:55 pm
By: ECU News Services
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East Carolina University’s School of Communication has welcomed two faculty members from Poland this semester as part of a partnership formed almost a decade ago.
Published: Friday, October 25th, 2019 @ 6:52 am
By: ECU News Services
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Erik Root, an executive with the Roger Bacon Academy charter school management organization, raises doubts about the claim oft-repeated claims that public charter schools harm their district school competition.
Published: Friday, September 20th, 2019 @ 8:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As teachers, parents and students are preparing for the start of the 2019–2020 school year, public health officials with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services are reminding North Carolinians to ensure their children are current on their vaccinations
Published: Friday, August 9th, 2019 @ 1:37 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gun control advocate and Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg said in an interview published Tuesday that he has been the target of seven “assassination attempts” in the last year and warned that killing him would essentially make him a martyr, only galvanizing his cause.
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2019 @ 3:31 pm
By: Daily Wire
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