By Art Padilla WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH (December 10, 2025) – When the Ida and William Friday Building at UNC–Charlotte was dedicated in 1982, Wilma Thornburg—Bill Friday’s elementary school teacher—sat on the platform ...

By Dr. Deanna Townsend-Smith Dudley Flood Center for Educational Equity & Opportunity RALEIGH (December 10, 2025) – In December 2019, North Carolina made a bold and necessary commitment to focus statewide attention ...

By Amos Fodchuk Public School Forum of North Carolina RALEIGH (December 10, 2025) – Over the past month, North Carolina has been confronted with a wave of immigration enforcement actions that left ...

By Douglas Shackelford and Paul Fulton CHAPEL HILL (December 3, 2025) – Once again, for the second time in seven years, the NC General Assembly has failed to pass a budget.1 Our ...

By Sally Hodges-Copple N.C Budget & Tax Center RALEIGH (December 3, 2025) – Unless leaders in the North Carolina General Assembly change course before the end of the year, Jan. 1 will ...

RALEIGH (December 3, 2025) – U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been on a media blitz lately, sharing the Trump administration’s plans to dismantle the Department of Education and shift ...

RALEIGH (November 25, 2025) – With Thanksgiving upon us, Public Ed Works wants to share our profound thanks – not only for the hard, face-to-face work done by those in ...

By Shawnice Meador Executive Director, Public Ed Works RALEIGH (November 20, 2025) – When Walmart made the bold decision in 2015 to raise its starting hourly wage by 24% – impacting nearly half ...

By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works RALEIGH (November 20, 2025) – North Carolina teachers and administrators are packing their bags and hitting the road after finding they can almost double their income ...

By David Rice Executive Editor Public Ed Works RALEIGH (November 20, 2025) – At last, there’s some good news for North Carolina’s teacher workforce. Enrollment in the NC Teaching Fellows program, which offers forgivable ...