Schools see unequal punishment for students
By Mary Helen Moore | Aug. 28, 2015Shari Smith is a senior at Chapel Hill High School who rarely gets into trouble.
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Shari Smith is a senior at Chapel Hill High School who rarely gets into trouble.
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By Nick Niedzwiadek Senior Writer The state’s two-month overdue budget glacially neared completion Wednesday as the legislature reached an agreement on teacher pay. Teachers across the state will receive a one-time $750 bonus this year as opposed to the House’s original plan to give all teachers a 2 percent raise, according to documents provided by Sen.
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Omar Currie, a former third-grade teacher at Efland Cheeks Elementary School, didn't think he was doing something brave when he read a children's book that features a relationship between two men to his class.
Read More »Thousands of N.C. teacher assistants are uncertain of their job status come August as they await the state legislature’s final budget for the next two years.
Read More »Some students might use their internet connections mostly to check social media accounts, upload photos or watch viral videos.
Read More »Teachers, students and parents discussed race relations in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools at a Board of Education meeting Thursday. The board heard public comments concerning an Instagram photo posted by an East Chapel Hill High School student during a recent school trip to the Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania for a Civil War history class.
Read More »Possum Drop could return The North Carolina Possum Drop tradition — which had comedian John Oliver in fits of laughter during his visit to Durham in December — might be returning this year. A proposal making its way through the legislature would allow a live animal to be part of the Brasstown Possum Drop.
Read More »North Carolina public schools might no longer be able to teach about the effectiveness and safety of emergency contraceptive methods like Plan B if an N.C. General Assembly proposal becomes law.
Read More »As the last graduates of the N.C. Teaching Fellows program are handed their diplomas in May, a bill currently in the state Senate might help fill the void left by the popular college scholarship.
Read More »Students have the chance to intimately discuss sexuality with high school students from across the country today — all without leaving Chapel Hill.
Read More »Allison Stewart, a dual language teacher at Frank Porter Graham Elementary in Chapel Hill, turned to social media during this week’s snow days.
Read More »A Wake County elementary school is facing opposition from conservative groups for teaching two books that they say contain age-inappropriate material on the Black Panthers, police brutality and illegal immigration.
Read More »Crossing party lines and professions, UNC’s James B. Hunt Jr. Institute engages legislators and teachers in an education policy dialogue.
Read More »Education policy was a major portion of President Barack Obama's 2015-16 national budget proposal, though analysts acknowledge that many parts of the plan are unlikely to make it through a GOP-controlled Congress.
Read More »The long-awaited N.C. public school performance report cards — now featuring letter grades — were released Thursday at a state Board of Education meeting, showing that schools with higher poverty rates tended to receive lower letter grades.
Read More »Gov. Pat McCrory touted a sweeping agenda — including education proposals, job creation, revamping dirty buildings and protecting puppies — during his State of the State on Wednesday.
Read More »Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is moving toward more comprehensive and data-driven school counseling programs — an effort that has earned the district national recognition.
Read More »CARY — Years before he became governor, Pat McCrory was a student teacher at North Rowan High School preparing to stand in front of a class for the first time.
Read More »A 20-year-old lawsuit accusing the state of not providing an adequate education to North Carolina’s public school students returned to court last week.
Read More »As the last N.C. Teaching Fellows graduate this spring from UNC-CH, the N.C. General Assembly might consider whether the future of such a program will walk away with them.
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