RALEIGH (August 15, 2024) – Republican state legislators want to spend hundreds of millions more of our tax dollars on vouchers for students to attend private schools. Bills passed separately this spring by both the state House and Senate would boost funding for vouchers to $625 million next year and $825 million a year by… READ MORE
RALEIGH (August 9, 2024) – In an announcement that surprised absolutely no one, the UNC Board of Governors named interim chancellor and former Board of Governors member Lee Roberts today as the new Chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill. Roberts has served as interim chancellor since January, pledging to run the campus in “a nonpartisan way.” The… READ MORE
By Leslie Boney GREENSBORO (July 24, 2024) – A surprisingly large experiment is ramping up surprisingly quietly in Guilford County. If it’s successful, it could change the way we think about public investment in early childhood education, and the implications of that investment for our future workforce and social structure. Over 12 years from 2017-2029,… READ MORE
By Leslie Boney GREENSBORO (July 24, 2024) – It’s two weeks after the birth of her son, Jacob, and Emily Clemmer is worried. Jacob hasn’t taken to breastfeeding and she doesn’t know why. She also has a list of other questions about being a new mom that nobody’s been able to answer. Today she’ll get… READ MORE
By Andrea Poole RALEIGH (July 24, 2024) – Most students in North Carolina rely on financial aid to make paying for college more manageable, and financial aid works best when families know about it early and can apply for it easily. At the state level, we’ve taken important steps to make it easier for families… READ MORE
By Leslie Boney GREENSBORO (July 31, 2024) – It will be hard for any community to match the private investment that has gone into creating Guilford County’s “Ready for School, Ready for Life” initiative. But observers and participants in the program and across the nation are looking closely at the program’s principles, design and products…. READ MORE
By Leslie Boney GREENSBORO (July 31, 2024) – The Ready for School, Ready for Life initiative in Guilford County has brought together private foundations, nonprofits, the health department, educators, physicians, parents, and more than 100 community groups in a remarkable commitment to improve early childhood services in the county. But employers also play a critical… READ MORE
RALEIGH (July 11, 2024) – Amid an intense discussion of education options in North Carolina, the NC School Boards Association launched a campaign this week with a simple message: Public education does the public good. It’s a clever play on words – public schools do thousands of good things in their communities. And in a… READ MORE
By Mary Ann Wolf Executive Director Public School Forum of NC RALEIGH (July 3, 2024) – This year, my youngest child, Andrew, graduated from high school. And, yes, I am feeling all of the pride and all of the empty-nest fears that go with that. However, the part of the graduation celebrations that struck me… READ MORE
By Eric Johnson HARKERS ISLAND (July 3, 2024) – North Carolina is one of the fastest-growing states in the country, and that’s been true for a while now. Since 2020, we’ve attracted newcomers at the rate of about 99,000 a year — the equivalent of adding an Asheville every year, according to the number crunchers… READ MORE