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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Public Ed Works shares this through a collaboration with our friends at the Public School Forum of North Carolina. Please note the statistics below on how many private ...

RALEIGH (May 10, 2024) – A new statewide campaign from a nonprofit group aims to build support for state legislators to significantly raise teacher pay in North Carolina. “North Carolinians value ...

RALEIGH (May 8, 2024) – The good news: North Carolina is improving its pitiful starting pay for public school teachers. The bad news: North Carolina has still slipped compared to other ...

RALEIGH (May 2, 2024) – In a state where 10,000+ teachers – 11.5% – left its public schools in 2023,1 Gov. Roy Cooper proposed a budget last week to rebuild ...

RALEIGH (April 25, 2024) – The NC General Assembly is back this week for its so-called “short” session to make adjustments for the second year of the state budget. And boy, ...