- UNC System signals flat tuition for 9th straight yearRALEIGH (January 30, 2025) – Contrary to a national narrative of skyrocketing tuition costs, the UNC System signaled clearly this week that it intends to hold tuition flat for the ...Read more
- Teaching Fellows build their numbersRALEIGH (January 30, 2025) – In a state with a severe teacher shortage,1 the NC Teaching Fellows made substantial gains this year, with 107% growth to a total of 575 students ...Read more
- The Assembly: The reading wars go to collegeASHEVILLE (January 23, 2025) – When Carson Bridges entered the classroom, she unknowingly joined a long-running fight about how to teach children to read. For decades, most elementary schools across the ...Read more
- New Trump directive to federal health & research agencies could hit NC in the pocketbookBy Rose Hoban NC Health News CHAPEL HILL (January 27, 2025) — Medical and biomedical researchers across North Carolina are used to pondering some of the most vexing questions in health and ...Read more
- The research threat to NC universitiesCHAPEL HILL (January 23, 2025) – With Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, the National Institutes of Health are “in the crosshairs“ for budget cuts, declared NPR. That could take a ...Read more
- Opportunity Scholarships: Discrimination and neglect of special-needs childrenRALEIGH (January 23, 2025) – There is misinformation circulating about whether North Carolina’s taxpayer-funded Opportunity Scholarships enable schools to discriminate against applicants. Let’s set the record straight. The starting aim of the ...Read more
- Vouchers: Next step to dismantle NC public schoolsBy Kris Nordstrom Senior Policy Analyst, North Carolina Justice Center RALEIGH (January 16, 2025) – If your goal was to dismantle North Carolina’s public school system, how would you do it? Would you ...Read more
- Gov. Stein: Open doors of opportunity to every childEDITOR’S NOTE: The following are excerpts from new Gov. Josh Stein’s inaugural address Saturday where he addressed several education issues.1 RALEIGH (January 11, 2025) – North Carolina Strong means opening the ...Read more
- Inaugural food for thoughtRALEIGH (January 16, 2025) – When an Inaugural Ball where you’re expecting more than 2,000 people gets postponed, what do you do with all the food you’ve ordered? Facing the snowstorm ...Read more
- UNC Asheville makes hustle plays to reopenBy Eric Johnson ASHEVILLE (January 16, 2025) – On Wednesday afternoon, after more than three months of empty classrooms, UNC Asheville celebrated an extraordinary return for the spring semester. Over a welcome-back ...Read more