By David Rice Executive Director, Public Ed Works WINCHESTER, VA (January 8, 2025) – I’m the son of two teachers – one a highly successful football coach and excellent math teacher, the ...

RALEIGH (January 2, 2025) – North Carolina’s General Assembly seems to consider itself all-powerful. Well here’s hoping that changes with the new year. Republicans lost their supermajority in the state House ...

RALEIGH (January 2, 2024) – Over the next several weeks, we will publish several short posts to address misinformation circulating about the North Carolina School vouchers called “Opportunity Scholarships.” These vouchers ...

RALEIGH (December 26, 2024) – 2024 marked a continuing – and at times audacious – eating away at public schools in North Carolina. Governing boards appointed directly or indirectly by state ...

RALEIGH (December 19, 2024) – North Carolina just learned that, for the second year in a row, it ranks 48th in the nation for per-pupil funding and 49th for how ...

RALEIGH (December 19, 2024) – As he mounts an effort to raise teacher pay in North Carolina, incoming State Superintendent Maurice “Mo” Green knows it will take a team. In any ...

RALEIGH (December 19, 2024) – North Carolina’s business community has a vested interest in its public schools. And it needs to act on it, the state’s incoming Superintendent of Public ...

CHAPEL HILL (December 12, 2024) – It seems there’s tension on every college campus these days, from governing boards to student protests. In North Carolina, governance can seem complex: There’s a ...

CHAPEL HILL (December 12, 2024) – It’s an understatement to say these are uncertain times in college sports. Conferences stretch from coast to coast. A transfer portal makes every athlete a ...

By Paul Fulton Chair, Public Ed Works RALEIGH (December 5, 2024) – Once upon a time, North Carolina was a leader in public education. The president of the state Chamber of Commerce was ...