RALEIGH (September 6, 2024) – When they return to Raleigh on Monday, state legislators have an opportunity – an opportunity to finish their job. Less than two months before Election Day – and with a billion-dollar surplus in hand – they can: Show they appreciate North Carolina teachers – who left classrooms at an alarming… READ MORE
Dr. Robert P. Taylor Superintendent Wake County Public School System CARY (August 28, 2024) – The start of a new school year is always a time of excitement and promise. This year, as we welcome traditional calendar schools and students back to join our year-round schools already in session, there is even more reason than… READ MORE
WINSTON-SALEM (August 29, 2024) – There is nothing so fundamental as for children to walk into their school safely every day. A day after a school-resource officer took a 9mm handgun and live ammunition from a student at Carver High School last week, Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough Jr. repeated an earlier call for middle… READ MORE
RALEIGH (August 22, 2024) – There’s no reason North Carolina’s community colleges should be staring at budget deficits when the state is sitting on a billion-dollar surplus. Yet they are. And it’s community-college students – the ones working to better their place in the world – who will pay the price. That’s not right. “The… READ MORE
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