By Andrew J. Perrin and A.T. Panter CHAPEL HILL (September 18, 2024) –General Education. Distribution Requirements. Such standards – required by nearly every institution of higher learning and prescribed by most accreditation bodies evoke dreary images of endless checkboxes. Frustrated students search for courses with open seats that fit their schedules, while overworked academic advisors… READ MORE
Public dollars belong in public schools
RALEIGH (September 13, 2024) – Public dollars belong in public schools. So in what perverse world is it OK to divert hundreds of millions of tax dollars to private schools while denying inflation-adjusted raises to public school teachers? Apparently, it’s the peculiar world of the North Carolina General Assembly. Legislators voted this week to devote… READ MORE
Does everyone feel welcome at UNC schools?
RALEIGH (September 13, 2024) – People go where they feel welcome. The question, after the UNC Board of Governors repealed the UNC System’s policy on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, is whether they will. The Board of Governors received a report this week on efforts at each UNC System campus to eliminate DEI offices since the… READ MORE
Legislators can finish the job
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
Wake superintendent: Looking forward and leveling up on teacher pay in North Carolina
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
Metal detector manpower
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
Derelict
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
Choice – at the expense of public schools
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
Surprise, surprise: Roberts named UNC-CH chancellor
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
READY, READY: Very big ideas for early childhood
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
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