Education
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Top Education Panel Says ‘Historic’ Teacher Pay Raises Not Enough
Just weeks after the North Carolina General Assembly passed a $34-billion state budget that included 8% average pay raises for teachers over two years, the state’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Education said it’s not enough. The bipartisan panel — assembled in March by Democratic NC Gov. Josh Stein; Senate President Pro Tem…
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NC Educators Plan May Day March on Raleigh for Public School Funding
Medora Burke-Scoll drove an hour from Mebane to Raleigh early Thursday morning to join other educators urging state lawmakers to repeal the scheduled elimination of the North Carolina corporate income tax. Burke-Scoll, a science teacher at Eastern High School and president of the Alamance-Burlington Association of Educators, said her school…
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NC AG Jeff Jackson Takes Live Nation to Trial Over Ticket Inflation
NC AG Jeff Jackson Takes Live Nation to Trial Over Ticket Inflation The trial for a bipartisan antitrust case against Live Nation launched by 30 attorneys general including NC AG Jeff Jackson and the US Department of Justice started this week. Jackson joined 29 Republican and Democratic attorneys general and…
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Educators Scramble to Support Students Amid Hunger Crisis
For Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) students, Nov. 12 was always going to be a nerve-wracking time: Report Card Day. Yet for the nearly 25% of CMS students who rely on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), November has seen more pressing matters arise as families have had to consider where…
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CMS Implements Next Phase of AI Integration Plan
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools announced its next phase of artificial intelligence (AI) implementation during the 2025-2026 school year last week. The project is the latest stage in CMS’ phase-based approach to AI integration that the district hopes will “enhance student learning and improve operational efficiency while maintaining educator roles and human decision-making,”…
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Report Shows How Much Teachers Pay for Classroom Supplies
The North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) is citing a recent study that puts a number on the rising financial responsibility put on North Carolina teachers entering the 2025-26 school year. A Wednesday press release from the organization pointed to a July report from coupon platform CouponBirds that found NC…
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How the Federal Education Funding Freeze Could Impact Local Schools
On July 10, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education (CMS BOE) Chair Stephanie Sneed and fellow rep Summer Nunn, who chairs the board’s Intergovernmental Relationships Committee, sent an open letter to the US Department of Education (DOE) and North Carolina lawmakers voicing their “deep concern” with the DOE’s decision to withhold…
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New Report Reveals Discrimination in NC’s Voucher-Funded Private Schools
A new report released by Public Schools First NC (PSFNC) this week reveals the extent to which North Carolina’s publicly funded voucher programs are supporting private schools that often exclude students through discriminatory policies. The nonprofit public school advocacy organization examined hundreds of private schools that received Opportunity Scholarship voucher…
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Federal Funding Hold Threatens ourBRIDGE Afterschool Programs
ourBRIDGE for KIDS, a local nonprofit that supports the city’s immigrant and refugee children and their families, may be forced to discontinue its after-school program as a federal funding freeze holds up hundreds of thousands of dollars meant for the organization. According to ourBRIDGE for KIDS, the organization was informed…
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La Becky Roe Advocates for Autism Awareness Through Nonprofit Org
It’s said that when there isn’t a seat at the table, it’s up to you to make one. That’s what local autism advocate La Becky Roe did when she founded Let’s Talk About It, an organization that provides advocacy, education and support to folks living with autism spectrum disorder (ASD),…
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OPINION: I’m Ashamed To Be a UNC Charlotte Graduate
A few days ago, the right-wing media outlet Accuracy in Media (AIM) secretly filmed then posted to social media a video of UNC Charlotte staff member Janique Sanders discussing how to uphold DEI-related work in the face of UNC System policy changes. Instead of repudiating AIM’s vile and deceptive tactics,…
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OPINION: Student Loan Confusion Is Stalling Dreams
The faint smell of chlorine marked my walk, preceded by wet footprints and the laughter of children on the other side of a hotel door. We were at a hotel in California in 2016 and I was dropping my 5-year-old daughter off with my cousin, Taylor. The informal designation of…
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Family Calls for Hate Crime Charges in Ardrey Kell Assault
The FBI has been brought in to investigate a potential hate crime in south Charlotte as the family of a 15-year-old female student at Ardrey Kell High School say she was targeted by a male student of the same age due to her Muslim faith earlier this month. According to…
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Montford Point Marines Provide Living Black History Lesson to Students
Veterans with the Montford Point Marine Association, a nonprofit that celebrates the legacy of America’s first Black Americans to serve in the Marine Corps, brought Black history alive for students at Tuckaseegee Elementary School on Friday, Feb. 21. Veterans shared the story of the Montford Point Marines, a segregated unit…
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OPINION: The CRBA Should Step Up to Support Public Education
Any day now, the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance (CRBA) will announce its new president and CEO. As a former member of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education (BOE), I hope this ushers in a new era of business community support of traditional public schools. That’s not to say that the…
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Grant Will Expand Digi-Bridge STEAMLab Programming in Local Schools
The Trane Technologies Foundation has created a happy ending for local nonprofit Digi-Bridge’s milestone 10th year, announcing a $290,000 grant to go toward the continuation and expansion of the organization’s out-of-school STEAM programming. Announced in late November, the grant will fund continued STEAMLab programming in eight Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), including…
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