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EDUCATION
Charlotte teacher Justin Parmenter faces his breaking point in the fight for better NC schools
| February 15, 2024
CHARLOTTE | EDUCATION | NC GENERAL ASSEMBLY | NC POLITICS | NORTH CAROLINA LEADERS | NORTH CAROLINA NEWS
You might not know him, but your kid's teacher does. Here's how a public education champion survived a decade of Republican budget cuts and a major health scare.
Multiple Durham schools close as teachers protest pay, education funding in NC
| January 31, 2024
Wednesday's school closings come after weeks of uncertainty in Durham. School staff are angry about pay and underfunding of public schools.
Teachers hate Mark Robinson’s idea to end science and history classes in elementary school
| January 29, 2024
Depriving students of these subjects at this age would leave them unprepared for high school and college, the teachers said, and rob them of opportunities to develop their own interests. In his 2022 memoir, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson wrote that if he was in charge of education policy in North Carolina, students wouldn’t learn science […]
Op-ed: School Boards Matter More Than Ever
| January 22, 2024
Access to high quality public education is a cornerstone of our democracy. Unfortunately, North Carolina politicians are attacking public education by gutting funding for schools and sowing distrust in teachers and administrators. This two-pronged assault on public schools robs children of the strong foundational learning they deserve. Statewide funding decisions deeply impact local schools since the biggest slice of […]
VIDEO: Sex Ed in NC Schools
| January 20, 2024
Republican-backed legislation has caused tens of thousands of kids in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools to miss sex-education classes, health screenings, and lessons on consent, data reveals. The new law requires parents to give their OK before these classes can be offered. Cardinal and Pine’s Senior Editor Billy Ball tackled the issue in October. View this post […]
NC underfunds mental health. It hits trans kids the hardest.
| January 8, 2024
When North Carolina lawmakers allocated $835 million to shore up mental health infrastructure in 2023, none of the money was allocated to meet the specific needs of trans patients.