Stories tagged: "public schools"

North Carolina Students return for their first day of classes at Barwell Road Elementary School in Raleigh, N.C., Monday, July 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
North Carolina North Carolina Teachers Often Spend More Than $500 on Classroom Supplies. Here’s How to Help. 

With 1.4 million kids returning to the state’s public schools this week and next, the need is great.

Michael McElroy Michael McElroy August 22, 2022 4:20 pm EDT
Education COVID relief funding allowed schools to provide meals at no cost to all school children over the last year. (Image via Shutterstock.)
Education ‘We Have to Feed Their Minds’: Why NC School Officials Don’t Want to See a COVID Relief Program End

Schools participating in the federal school lunch program provided meals at no cost for the last year. That will end in June.

Sarah Ovaska Sarah Ovaska May 12, 2022 1:50 pm EDT
North Carolina DeWitt Powell, Jones Lake's longtime park superintendent, vigilantly guarded the atmosphere of peace and dignity of the park. No litter or profanity was permitted, and Black families could camp, hike, fish, swim or just relax on the lake's shores. Powell, who held his post for decades, established that atmosphere in the Jim Crow era, against the odds in rural Bladen County.
North Carolina How the ‘MLK of Jones Lake’ Made This NC Park an Island of Equality

Jones Lake State Park, North Carolina’s first to admit Black visitors, was a place guests could breathe freely, thanks to its first Black park superintendent.

Emiene Wright Emiene Wright February 4, 2022 1:11 pm EST
Healthcare Students and school staff at Inborden Elementary in Halifax County, North Carolina walk the halls on the first day of in-person classes March 15, 2021. (Image by Billy Ball)
Healthcare NC Could Fund Schools and Help People Get Health Insurance in 2022. Will We Do It?

C&P’s Senior Editor Sarah Ovaska shares her thoughts on what important issues we’ll be talking about in 2022. 

Sarah Ovaska Sarah Ovaska December 27, 2021 10:29 am EST
Commentary NC educators protest near the General Assembly building in Raleigh in 2018. Education funding was a major point of conflict in the state in the last decade, particularly longstanding funding inequities between urban and rural counties. (Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)
Commentary From a Teacher: Why 2020 Election in NC Will Leave Many With Buyer’s Remorse

Voters in NC can expect GOP winners at the state and federal level to invest more in school choice and less in public education.

Kim Mackey Kim Mackey November 9, 2020 11:39 am EST

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The gate to the Duke Energy West End substation in Moore County, N.C. on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. Tens of thousands were without power in the county after what authorities say was an act of criminal vandalism at multiple substations. The Pilot newspaper in Southern Pines reported that infrastructure at the West End substation was damaged. (John Nagy/The Pilot via AP) Crime ‘A Serious, Intentional Crime’: Shootings at Moore County Power Stations Leave 36,000 In the Dark and the Cold
Charlotte chef Lisa Brooks was a finalist on the popular Food Network reality show "Chopped." One of our picks for NC-centric holiday gifts this year is a candlelit dinner prepared in your home by Chef Lisa. (Photo by James Ward) Culture Have This Celebrity NC Chef Make A Meal Just for You, and Other NC-Centric Holiday Gifts This Year
This remarkable feast for the eyes is a wintry mashup of a margarita and a pina colada, with a bit of blue curacao for good measure. (Image via The Ginger Fox in Winston-Salem) Culture The Perfect Holiday Drinks, As Selected By NC Bartenders and Mixologists
US President Joe Biden announces student loan relief with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona (R) on August 24, 2022 in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC. - Biden announced that most US university graduates still trying to pay off student loans will get $10,000 of relief to address a decades-old headache of massive educational debt across the country. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images) Education Biden Administration Makes It Easier to Discharge Student Loan Debt Through Bankruptcy
Coronavirus A doctor in protective gloves examines COVID-19 tests. (Image via Tang Ming Tung/Getty Images.)
Coronavirus Keep Those Masks On. COVID-19 Cases Surging in NC.

North Carolina, like elsewhere in the country, is seeing an uptick of COVID-19 cases as weariness from the pandemic’s restrictions set in.

Sarah Ovaska Sarah Ovaska October 19, 2020 3:55 pm EDT
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Voting What’s on Your Ballot: An Explainer of Some Lesser-Known NC Races

A guide to North Carolina's lesser-known elected state positions on the ballot this year actually do, and how it affects you.

Max Millington Max Millington October 15, 2020 2:12 pm EDT