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Dozens of counties applied for thousands of dollars in new Digital Learning grants approved Thursday.
Emily Walkenhorst, WRAL education reporter
Most North Carolina students don't read proficiently, and the movement to change how they're taught to read is growing. Inside the race to get students to read fluently.
Cedar Ridge Elementary School Principal Donna Bledsoe won among nine finalists.
Kimberly Jones, who teaches at Chapel Hill High School, will take the next school year off to travel the state and advocate for the teaching profession.
The auditor's office found issues with the state's monitoring of the funds last year, as well.
Friday, March 24, 2023 -- Local school systems are being forced to take matters into their own hands to retain the teachers on staff as well as attract others to fill the vacancies. Unfortunately, this approach will likely only exacerbate the documented vast differences in the quality of education children have access to, depending on where in North Carolina they live.
State education officials say the current metrics for assessing school performance align too closely with students' socioeconomic status. They're looking at new ways to determine what separates good schools from bad schools.
The growing struggle is now coinciding with pressure to speed up students' learning and make up for the slowed pace of learning that occurred during the first year or more of the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in lower student test scores.
Emily Walkenhorst, WRAL education report
Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023 -- North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt seems more concerned with appeasing the Republican partisans who rule the state legislature than making sure every school child has access to a quality public education and their schools and teachers have the resources needed to do it.
The board is also asking lawmakers to make big changes in special education funding, pilot a major overhaul in teacher licensure and, ultimately, fund the multi-billion-dollar Leandro plan.
The pilot program would be part of a new action plan to address children's mental health.
A child welfare panel in North Carolina got its first look at the latest student risk behavior survey. The data paint a bleak picture of student mental health, access to guns, and violence.
Laura Leslie, WRAL capitol bureau chief
Next up: The North Carolina General Assembly must decide whether and how wide to pilot the changes.
That's a smaller-scale plan than what has been discussed for months. It would boost teacher pay and classroom support while subjecting teachers to more consequential evaluations.
The new goals align with pushes to measure students and schools by more than standardized tests.
North Carolina's teacher licensure proposal would significantly increase teacher pay and create more teacher leadership positions -- moves aimed at enticing more teachers into the ranks and stemming an ongoing exodus of educators. But some teachers are skeptical.
Members need to reconcile existing practice with state law and have spent months trying to decide how to do it.
State officials recommend the schools be subject to normal charter school scrutiny, which could eventually mean closure.
Children at more than 230 North Carolina elementary schools will have an extra opportunity to try a healthy snack during their school day.
Superintendent Catherine Truitt has repeatedly questioned whether the state's A-F grading system is truly fair.
Leaders want to tie employment to outcomes for the state's more than 100,000 public school teachers.
North Carolina education leaders released student test scores and school performance grades on Thursday. About one in three schools are now considered low-performing, hundreds more than before the pandemic. WRAL Education Insider Emily Walkenhorst explains what this means for schools and what happens next.
Johnston County Public Schools is the only school system in North Carolina to see a major drop in the number of underperforming schools in data released Thursday by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
