Experts say AI will disproportionately impact Black and brown workers through displacement and the environmental burden of data centers, which are more likely to be located in marginalized communities.
In the new Billy Ball Explains NC, we take on the Leandro case, a lawsuit over education equality that's still unresolved 31 years after it was filed. There are more than a billion dollars at stake for public schools.
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.
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.
School districts in rural places are increasingly turning to 4-day school weeks, but there's mixed data on how the change impacts students.
A Charlotte teacher shared a video about the impact of this weekend’s border patrol arrests on the East Side community. Classrooms were empty because many kids are scared, and families are shaken.
After years of targeting things like "critical race theory" and education on racial injustice, right-wingers in NC have a new enemy in SEL.
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