President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for the elimination of the US Department of Education. If he’s successful in abolishing the agency, special education students and rural and lower income communities in North Carolina could lose crucial support.
The GOP-dominated NC Supreme Court decision vacates a 2023 trial court order requiring the state to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars for public education.
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.
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson on Monday announced that he’s joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration over frozen education funds.
As a former educator in Buncombe County, State Rep. Lindsey Prather, a Democrat from western NC, says she understands the struggles teachers face in paying their bills.
A former social studies teacher in NC public schools says state and federal leaders are failing to uphold their obligation to education.
Cardinal & Pine spoke with Rep. Lindsay Prather, a former educator, about the pay North Carolina teachers are getting. She says they’re being tricked.
After years of targeting things like “critical race theory” and education on racial injustice, right-wingers in NC have a new enemy in SEL.
NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson says the Trump administration has reversed course on the $165 million it was withholding from North Carolina’s public schools.
Across North Carolina, there are opportunities to celebrate International Women’s Day, advocate for public education, and protest the Trump administration’s war in Iran, as well as ICE operations in North Carolina.
