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Not even two weeks into the new school year, at least nine Wake County public schools have already been forced to dismiss students early or close entirely because of HVAC issues.
Published: Sunday, November 26th, 2023 @ 9:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Research on the pandemic’s effect on student enrichment shows that just forty-five percent of North Carolina’s K-12 students passed state reading, math, and science exams.
Published: Monday, October 23rd, 2023 @ 10:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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WCPSS Spends 75% of Covid Dollars on Salaries and Benefits, Little to Nothing on Tutoring
Published: Tuesday, October 17th, 2023 @ 6:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A consensus has been emerging that tutoring is the best way to remedy learning loss
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 12:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Wake County Schools implemented a student assignment program years ago to provide a more diverse educational environment and expend educational opportunity for more students.
Published: Tuesday, November 15th, 2022 @ 2:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Early in September, a 13-year-old middle schooler committed suicide while on campus. Wendell Middle School released the students due to a “medical crisis,” and all the students went home. All except Austin Pendergrass who died that day.
Published: Monday, September 26th, 2022 @ 8:19 am
By: Lib Campbell
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Beginning with 11 students in 1997, the homeschool curriculum Classical Conversations now has over 140,000 students enrolled across 50 countries.
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 8:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Both options have enrollment that compares with some of the state's largest districts.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 9:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Earlier this week Keung Hui of the News and Observer tweeted that Wake County Public Schools is still recommending that all students and staff wear masks in schools
Published: Tuesday, August 9th, 2022 @ 3:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina schools received over $6 billion in funding to remedy the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on students and schools.
Published: Wednesday, July 27th, 2022 @ 2:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the biggest casualties of the pandemic has been the opportunity for our children to learn. Closed schools, the difficulty of pivoting to new learning platforms and upended schedules all contributed to a general sense that kids were falling behind academically.
Published: Tuesday, July 19th, 2022 @ 8:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Cards for learning 'colors' all have LGBT themes, including a pregnant man.
Published: Saturday, June 4th, 2022 @ 3:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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That nod to the famous line from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist may be what some Wake County commissioners are thinking after learning that Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) Superintendent Cathy Moore is asking Wake County Commissioners for approximately $600 million
Published: Monday, April 25th, 2022 @ 2:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Now that personnel data for local public schools has been posted by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, we have data on how the pandemic may have impacted staffing levels in local school districts.
Published: Sunday, March 27th, 2022 @ 8:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed the Free the Smiles Act. The bipartisan measure would have blocked mandatory mask policies in N.C. schools.
Published: Sunday, February 27th, 2022 @ 8:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s state constitution, in Article IX, section 1 (“Education Encouraged”), reads: “Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools, libraries, and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”
Published: Thursday, February 10th, 2022 @ 10:24 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Critical race theory is the idea that the United States is a fundamentally racist country and that all of our institutions including the law, culture, business, the economy are all designed to maintain white supremacy.
Published: Monday, November 29th, 2021 @ 10:21 am
By: Diane Rufino
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North Carolina’s self-described teachers’ union still has clout with many Democratic lawmakers in the legislature, but its influence — and popularity — with teachers and everyday North Carolinians appears to be waning.
Published: Sunday, November 21st, 2021 @ 3:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Public school districts in North Carolina have received about $5.3 billion in COVID-related relief from the federal government.
Published: Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 @ 4:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson in March announced the launch of a task force to address growing concern grew among public school parents about political and cultural indoctrination in the classroom
Published: Sunday, August 1st, 2021 @ 8:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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NC High School Athletics Association mounts massive effort to block their dismantling
Published: Saturday, July 31st, 2021 @ 1:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lt. Governor and State Superintendent Support Legislation
Published: Sunday, May 23rd, 2021 @ 6:37 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Epidemiologists and infectious disease experts have consistently maintained that the risk of spread of the COVID-19 virus among young children is low.
Published: Monday, April 19th, 2021 @ 7:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Mental health experts who are also parents with students in Wake County Public Schools are sounding an alarm over a rising mental health crisis due to a lack of full-time classroom instruction.
Published: Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 @ 8:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Education Corps recruiting 200 members to serve in public schools across the state
Published: Thursday, November 26th, 2020 @ 12:24 am
By: Governor's Office
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed.
Published: Friday, August 7th, 2020 @ 2:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Every North Carolina student, from kindergarteners to post-graduates, will have new health and safety rules to follow this fall.
Published: Sunday, August 2nd, 2020 @ 12:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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To limit the spread of coronavirus, public schools have been closed across North Carolina and the nation.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 @ 11:36 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Roy Cooper today honored Black History Month by recognizing African American education leaders from across the state for their many accomplishments that have helped move North Carolina forward and left a positive impact on students.
Published: Saturday, February 15th, 2020 @ 2:57 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The January meeting of the N.C. State Board of Education ran late into the evening, but it concluded with a tense discussion between the board and State Superintendent Mark Johnson.
Published: Friday, January 10th, 2020 @ 9:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses what we think are some interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s a week in review:
Published: Saturday, December 14th, 2019 @ 7:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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