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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.
Op-Ed: On Parkland shooting anniversary, teens like me won’t forget the politicians who stopped gun reform
| February 15, 2024
EDUCATION | GUN SAFETY | MARK ROBINSON | NC POLITICS | NORTH CAROLINA LEADERS | NORTH CAROLINA NEWS | SCHOOLS
Six years ago this week, a gunman killed 17 students and staff in a Florida high school. A NC teen writes on what it's like growing up in the shadow of that.
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 […]