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In NC, more migrant children coming to public schools

By Lindsey Brunson | September 25

They come up through Mexico, most from El Salvador and Honduras, alone and underage, fleeing the possibility of rape, assault and kidnapping. What will ...

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools redeveloping curriculum, focusing on achievement gap

By Rachel Herzog | September 23

With state data revealing that a large achievement gap among students still exists, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is working with a new partner to ...

New assessment adopted by CHCCS to identify student needs

By Elise McGlothian | September 23

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will now use a student assessment tool that will give teachers immediate feedback regarding a student’s grade-level ...

On new AP US History curriculum, a pushback

By Corey Risinger | September 18

High school students get testing anxiety — and, this fall, they’re not the only ones sweating with the implementation of a new Advanced Placement ...

Hungry students find help at TABLE

By Morgan Swift | September 18

Hundreds of Chapel Hill-Carrboro elementary school students do not have to worry about going hungry on the weekends, thanks to the nonprofit organization ...

Q&A on education in Gaza with Middle East expert Nadia Yaqub

By Caroline Lamb | September 16

The most recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict caused destruction, overcrowding and sheltering in schools, some of which are run by the United Nations Relief ...

Common Core could face end in NC

By Benji Schwartz | September 15

The Common Core, a set of national standards for measuring student achievement in K-12 English and math, is in limbo in North Carolina following state ...

Durham cuts ties with Teach For America

By Nick Niedzwiadek | September 10

Teach For America has been on UNC’s campus this week trying to recruit students to join its postgraduate teaching program — but Durham Public ...

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools balances budget — at a cost

By Rachel Herzog | September 7

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools achieved a balanced budget for the 2014-15 school year and an increase in teacher pay, but at a significant cost.

Chapel Hill High School teachers criticize school culture

By Claire Nielsen | August 25

When Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools started Monday, not everyone was excited to begin the new year.

Civitas Institute targets teachers’ group

By Tat'yana Berdan | August 24

Seven billboards along Interstate 40, Interstate 85 and other highly trafficked areas statewide are catching North Carolina teachers’ attention by asking ...

State teacher pay increases, but concerns still linger

By Sharon Nunn | August 19

As details surrounding the average 7 percent pay raise for North Carolina public school teachers become more concrete, mixed feelings persist.

PACE Academy works on compliance issues

By Zoe Schaver | August 18

PACE Academy will need its parents and students to be as invested as PACE’s Board of Directors in keeping the school open for the foreseeable future. ...

The principal of Northside Elementary, Cheryl Carnahan, stood on the school's roof garden on August 14th, 2014. The garden contains several energy efficient features, including solar tubes and a rainwater cistern.

Northside gets highest LEED certification

By Jasmin Singh | August 14

Northside Elementary won’t let its rich history stop it from becoming a school of the future.

PACE Academy has charter renewed

By Zoe Schaver | July 21

Alternative education at PACE Academy will get a second chance — which means several changes for the school in August.

UNC School of Education receives $3 million donation

By Stephanie Lamm | June 30

Battling a tight budget, the UNC School of Education received some much-needed support from a former faculty member.

Science teacher Raymond Thomas chats with his coworkers in the library of Carrboro High School.

Low pay harms K-12 teacher recruitment and retention

By Sharon Nunn | June 23

In 2000 an engineer left an annual salary of $70,000 to teach and nurture students’ passion for science.“Fourteen years later, my pay is still not ...

Orange County superintendent steps down, seat filled by Del Burns

By Aren Besson | May 27

After only a few months since the last appointment, Orange County School System returned to an old favorite to fill the position of superintendent. ...

NC Supreme Court lifts injunction on school vouchers

By Hannah Shaw | May 19

More than 5,500 families who applied for school vouchers await news of their eligibility after the N.C. Supreme Court lifted an injunction that had frozen ...

Vivan Connell, an English as a Second Language teacher at Phoenix Academy, was diagnosed with ALS.

Phoenix Academy High School teacher with ALS plans, raises money for class trip to Holocaust Museum

By Rachel Herzog | April 21

Some might say it’s an injustice that Vivian Connell’s disease will eventually take her grip, gait and voice, but she says it has become her opportunity ...