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Carolina Journal Published 3 hours ago

Lassiter considers second lawsuit against Wake County schools

A former Wake County school principal is considering filing a second lawsuit against the school system. Scott Lassiter believes Wake school leaders are using a “$68,000 price tag” to block him from accessing public records he requested as part of his initial suit against the…

Carolina Journal Published 5 hours ago

NC education commission OKs literacy plan, 2028 pay target

The Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Education approved its first set of recommendations Sept. 28, including calls for new K-3 reading curricula and state-funded literacy coaches.

Carolina Journal Published September 28

DEI prohibitions for community colleges take effect Thursday

New rules barring DEI offices at NC's 58 community colleges take effect Thursday. The State Board adopted them Sept. 18 over one member's abstention, and colleges have already filed compliance certifications the system office has not released.

Carolina Journal Published September 25

Wake school library policy draws warning from NC House leader

House Majority Leader Brenden Jones, R-Columbus, is promising an “immediate legislative response” after the Wake County Public School System stopped accepting challenges seeking the removal of library books that are not being used for classroom instruction.

Carolina Journal Published September 25

Task force rejects DPI push to grade schools on absenteeism

Nearly a quarter of NC students were chronically absent last year. A State Board task force decided schools won't be graded on it, over DPI's objection.

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Carolina Journal Published September 24

NC task force leans toward new way of measuring school growth

A State Board of Education task force wants to stop grading schools on how their students did compared with the rest of the state that year. It would instead measure each student against a target set before the school year, built from that student's own past test scores.

Carolina Public Press Published September 24

NC universities ranked by free-speech advocacy group

FIRE gives most US schools low grades for campus free speech and rewards positions of institutional neutrality in higher education. NC universities ranked by free-speech advocacy group is a story from Carolina Public Press , an award-winning independent newsroom. Our breakthrough…

Carolina Journal Published September 22

State program admits every NC senior to college without application

All 105,036 NC public school seniors on track to graduate got a direct college admission offer this year through NC College Connect. Two-thirds were admitted to four-year schools, but the state counts offers, not enrollment.

Carolina Journal Published September 21

NC no longer requires entrance exams for teacher training programs

Students no longer need to pass an entrance exam to get into North Carolina's teacher training programs. Lawmakers dropped the requirement to help fill classrooms, leaving a GPA minimum as the only bar for admission.

Carolina Journal Published September 16

Wake school board asks federal judge to dismiss Lassiter lawsuit

The Wake County school board is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit from a former principal who claims politics played a role in his suspension and resignation in 2024.

Carolina Journal Published September 16

Federal grant expands NC program that scores students on empathy, collaboration

DPI won a $4 million federal grant to expand a program that grades students on skills like empathy and collaboration and puts the results on a second transcript. The work will be scored partly by AI, and the release leaves open whether the data will feed into the state's new A–F…