Shortages of teachers, infrastructure and technology workers will hamper schools' ability to provide the best education, facilities and tools to children, Superintendent Robert Taylor said Thursday.

Higher employee pay will be key to running Wake schools smoothly, superintendent says

Wake County Public School System Superintendent Robert Taylor speaks to the League fo Women Voters of Wake County, April 18, 2024

More than 21% of North Carolina's four-year-olds enrolled in the state's pre-kindergarten programs during the 2022-2023 school year, up from the prior year but still below the state's pre-pandemic highs, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research.

North Carolina ranks 29th in public pre-K enrollment, new report shows

Durham County budget increases funding for pre-K students

-- PHOTO MOVED IN ADVANCE AND NOT FOR USE - ONLINE OR IN PRINT - BEFORE MAY 6, 2018. -- Dorothea Rockburne with her painting, “Tropical Tan,” from 1967-68, at Dia:Beacon, in Beacon, N.Y., April 11, 2018. A wrinkle finish paint on black steel, it is based on mathematics’ set theory, a lifelong interest of the artist. At 85, Rockburne is still blazing trails, making art in the unorthodox way she has for seven decades. (Nathan Bajar/The New York Times)

Dorothea Rockburne, Still Blazing Trails