Emily Walkenhorst

The documents provide educators with example topics and projects they can use to teach the standards, which different from prior standards in their emphasis of a more diverse array of perspectives on history and discrimination.

North Carolina Senate Education/Higher Education Committee has referred a handful of amended education bills to committees, including one that would limit school districts’ ability to assess indirect costs related to their school nutrition programs, which critics contend risks districts’ ability to …

The Wake County Board of Education has approved a new memorandum of understanding to sign with law enforcement agencies for staffing school resource officers at district schools.

North Carolina education officials’ plans to comply with a decades-long lawsuit over inequitable educational resources is sufficient to comply with court orders and should be implemented, North Carolina State Superior Judge W. David Lee wrote this week.

Up to 10,000 schoolchildren could be eligible for a $1,000 payment to their parents, one of many changes to an education bill recommended by the North Carolina General Assembly’s House Appropriations Committee.

A North Carolina charter school has closed, just days after suddenly canceling its summer program and as the State Bureau of Investigations is looking into its finances.

The new Wake Preparatory Academy charter school will now build in Franklin County, following a State Board of Education vote approving the new location.

The North Carolina State Board of Education has rescheduled a vote on a set of guidance documents for implementing the state’s new social studies standards, after some board members were concerned not all related documents would be passed at the same time.

The mask requirement isn’t likely to change soon.

The North Carolina State Board of Education discussed Wednesday a set of documents designed to help school districts and teachers form curriculum based on the state’s new social studies standards.

The Wake County Board of Education moved forward with a new attendance policy, named a new school, walked back plans to move future fall exams and heard from parents angry that their children must continue to wear face masks.

The latest agreement clarifies when law enforcement can intervene in cases of student misconduct and outlines increased communication with law enforcement and the community. It stops short of banning officer use of force against students, for which many opponents of the program have been asking.

About 178,000 North Carolina children, including tens of thousands who likely have individualized education plans like Kate’s, attend a public school in which a school psychologist isn’t available even part-time. That’s almost one in eight of the state’s nearly 1.5 million public school children.

Wake County Board of Education Chairman Keith Sutton will become the interim superintendent of Warren County Public Schools, beginning July 1.

The Wake County Public School System will conduct universal gifted-learning screenings for fourth graders next year, in addition to third graders.

North Carolina lawmakers have filed a bill to implement the multibillion-dollar action plan to increase students’ access to “sound basic” and “high quality” education.

The Durham Public Schools Board of Education drafted a resolution Thursday opposing North Carolina House Bill 324, which would limit how school teachers can address race and sex in class.

Superintendent Cathy Q. Moore would be able to call for remote learning in the event of bad weather or burst pipes, for example, under the proposed policy. Moore would not be able to order schools to pivot to remote learning on an ongoing basis, like in the event of a pandemic, without board approva…

Wake County Public School System certified employees who sign up as summer learning program instructors will make $45 per hour of more, under incentives approved by the county Board of Education on Tuesday.

North Carolina educators have just weeks to go before they begin their biggest-ever summer learning programs, serving potentially hundreds of thousands of students at risk of not moving up to the next grade level.