The state retirement system and top legislative leaders are asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to dismiss the Wilson County school board's appeal in a pension-spiking dispute.
Published: Friday, January 26th, 2024 @ 11:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Principal gave excused absences for anti-Israel protest, inflating turnout by enticing those who wanted to skip class.
Published: Monday, January 15th, 2024 @ 12:42 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Satanic Temple plans to launch its first after-school program in Tennessee at an elementary school just outside of Memphis come January, a development that sparked widespread controversy within the community.
Published: Tuesday, January 9th, 2024 @ 2:15 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Wilson County school board is asking the state Supreme Court to review a $400,000 penalty linked to the state's law against pension spiking.
Published: Saturday, December 30th, 2023 @ 11:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A Maryland teacher is on leave while the school system investigates her for a string of anti-Semitic social media posts that included creating a list of wealthy Jews in her county, claiming they horde wealth while contributing nothing to society, and calling for “class war.”
Published: Thursday, December 21st, 2023 @ 9:53 am
By: Daily Wire
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A “DEI teacher” and “team leader” at the Montgomery County, Maryland, public schools outside of D.C. has defended Hamas and pushed a frenzy of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories in recent weeks.
Published: Monday, November 27th, 2023 @ 10:49 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Kirk Cameron called out Scholastic Books for glamorizing gender transitioning and pushing “sexually explicit” material in books, calling the publisher a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” that’s taken over schools and libraries.
Published: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 11:50 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Innovative new MBA pathway provides leadership experiences for students, companies
Published: Saturday, November 18th, 2023 @ 10:42 am
By: ECU News Services
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The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law backs plaintiffs challenging the funding arrangement of Greenville's now-dismantled red-light camera enforcement program.
Published: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 1:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State test scores show slight improvement over last year’s scores but still trail prepandemic levels
Published: Friday, October 13th, 2023 @ 5:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper is doubling down on his declared “state of emergency” over K-12 public education funding in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, July 30th, 2023 @ 10:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Greenville and the Pitt County school board defended the city's red-light camera enforcement program in court filings Wednesday at the N.C. Supreme Court.
Published: Thursday, July 27th, 2023 @ 8:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In the wake of the shooting at a private religious school in Nashville, Tennessee, that left three children and three adults dead, some leaders of religious schools in North Carolina feel uneasy about the safety of their own schools.
Published: Tuesday, July 4th, 2023 @ 6:35 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Parents of two students expelled from the Charlotte Latin private school are asking the N.C. Court of Appeals to revive their lawsuit against the school. The parents complain about a "political" shift at the school in 2021.
Published: Monday, June 26th, 2023 @ 7:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Two recent news stories about educational institutions in our state illustrate the truth of that statement.
Published: Thursday, June 1st, 2023 @ 9:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Refusing to look inward, opponents of school choice insist the only thing needed to improve public schools is more money
Published: Wednesday, May 31st, 2023 @ 5:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week, the Wake County Board of Education approved a revision to its library policies that would require materials to not be “pervasively vulgar” and make “age” and “grade” appropriateness a higher concern.
Published: Monday, May 29th, 2023 @ 9:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Parents fighting diversity, equity, and inclusion priorities at a Charlotte private school are asking the N.C. Supreme Court to take their case.
Published: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 @ 4:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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School staff, mental health professionals and the community can learn how to expand support for K-12 students and families experiencing mental and behavioral health issues in a webinar from 10 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, March 15.
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2023 @ 1:59 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Public school employees who commit sexual offenses against students would face harsher penalties under a bill passed Feb. 21 by the North Carolina House K-12 Education Committee.
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 9:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A Hamline University professor who was fired after showing images of Muhammad in her art class is now reportedly filing a lawsuit against the school.
Published: Thursday, January 26th, 2023 @ 11:23 am
By: Daily Wire
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"Not one member of the school board... has reached out to check on how she is doing, lend any type of support or even apologize."
Published: Sunday, December 18th, 2022 @ 4:19 am
By: Daily Wire
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$9M grant supports creation of educator preparation program in educational justice
Published: Tuesday, October 18th, 2022 @ 9:29 am
By: ECU News Services
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For parents and some school board candidates in North Carolina, the big question asked is, “Where do the state standards end and the district’s curricula begin?”
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2022 @ 2:52 am
By: Donald Shreve
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At the center of the debate surrounding the new state budget, public school advocates claim it falls hundreds of millions of dollars short of a court-ordered mandate to increase funding to improve public education.
Published: Thursday, July 21st, 2022 @ 12:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and the Academic Development Institute released the 2022 North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey this week
Published: Friday, June 17th, 2022 @ 6:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It’s budget season for North Carolina’s local governments, and some officials are taking the opportunity to propose tax increases yet again.
Published: Friday, May 13th, 2022 @ 12:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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