More than 580,000 NC children rely on SNAP to help keep food on the table. On school mornings in North Carolina, some children arrive already exhausted. School teachers and nurses across the state report seeing the signs: difficulty concentrating, irritability, and...
North Carolina teachers are among the worst paid in the country, a reality that drives more and more teachers out of the classroom.
States like NC are scrambling to meet rising demand for newly expanded school choice initiatives, pouring more money into the programs as waiting lists — and budget concerns — grow.
Education advocates, parents and teachers braved the cold Thursday as they urged the North Carolina Supreme Court to enforce its Leandro ruling and release about $1.7 billion for public schools, saying delays are hurting students statewide.
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson says the decision to end the funding mid-stream violates federal law and threatens critical rural education services for more than 23,000 students statewide.
As the General Assembly prepares to return for a session this spring, North Carolina faith leaders and advocacy groups urged legislators to prioritize public education, affordable health care, and fair voting maps.
A nonpartisan organization recently ranked NC at the bottom of the nation for public education funding in several metrics, including last in the nation for school funding effort.
As the NC State Health Plan faces a $507 million deficit, veteran NC teachers say shrinking benefits and rising out-of-pocket costs are driving them out of the classroom.
In 1994, low-income school districts sued the NC legislature over paltry funding. The saga known as the Leandro case became a snarl of court rulings and legislative obstruction that is still unresolved.
In a dismal new report, a libertarian think tank finds that NC teacher pay and per-student public school funding ranks near the bottom of the nation.
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