RALEIGH (October 18, 2024) – NC Promise – which promises $500-a-semester tuition at four UNC System campuses – appears to be working. The North Carolina General Assembly – which failed to adopt an updated budget this year – does not. An annual report on NC Promise, which began in Fall 2018 at Western Carolina University,… 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
North Carolina: Don’t miss out on funding your future
By Andrea Poole RALEIGH (July 24, 2024) – Most students in North Carolina rely on financial aid to make paying for college more manageable, and financial aid works best when families know about it early and can apply for it easily. At the state level, we’ve taken important steps to make it easier for families… READ MORE
Public education does the public good
RALEIGH (July 11, 2024) – Amid an intense discussion of education options in North Carolina, the NC School Boards Association launched a campaign this week with a simple message: Public education does the public good. It’s a clever play on words – public schools do thousands of good things in their communities. And in a… READ MORE
The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credential, and Connections
By Eric Johnson CHAPEL HILL (March 13, 2024) – Despite the ivory tower stereotype, American universities are marked by their embrace of pragmatic education. We’re the country that invented land-grant colleges devoted to “the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes,” as the lovely prose of the 1862 Morrill Act commanded. We’re a country… READ MORE
Hopes for 2024
RALEIGH (January 4, 2024) – The 2024 elections will be important to America – and to the future of American democracy. But they also will be vitally important to the future of North Carolina and its children. From governor to state legislators to local school boards, the state’s voters will make critical choices up and… READ MORE
Is NC spending enough on public education?
BENSON (November 1, 2023) – Is North Carolina spending enough on public education? The vast divide between conservative and progressive answers to that question was on full display at a recent debate on education funding. The forum at the Benson Civic Center was the final installment in a four-week series of Home Town Debates on… READ MORE
7% over two years? Simply not enough.
RALEIGH (September 22, 2023) – It’s simply not enough. At a time when North Carolina children started school with 3,500 teaching positions vacant and with more than 20% of state jobs vacant,1 state legislators approved a budget today – almost three months late – that provides teachers and state employees raises of 4% this year… READ MORE
Leslie Boney: The new threats to free speech on campus
Sixty years ago this week, North Carolina legislators shut down free speech on college campuses across the state. Today, free speech on campus is under threat again — in some cases from the outside by legislators and in other cases from the inside by students and faculty. We need to save it. On June 25,… READ MORE
Roy Williams on teacher pay: ‘Come on, man!’
CHAPEL HILL (June 22, 2023) – When he lists his heroes – other than his mother – Hall of Fame Coach Roy Williams lists his teachers. “The most important people to me in my entire life were my high school and elementary school teachers. No one ever was as important to me as those people… READ MORE
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