By Don Martin WINSTON-SALEM (December 23, 2025) – In 2013, the NC General Assembly passed the “Opportunity Scholarship” law to provide scholarship funds for low-income students who wished to attend private ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Gov. Jim Hunt advanced public education in North Carolina in many, many ways – but mainly by setting high expectations in the days before the state’s governors had ...

ELON (December 17, 2025) – North Carolinians are confused by their state’s education structure. But they do know schools are underfunded, teachers are paid too little and the chief culprit ...

By Dr. Deanna Townsend-Smith Dudley Flood Center for Educational Equity & Opportunity RALEIGH (December 17, 2025) – In North Carolina, we are watching a disturbing choice play out in real time: Playing ...

By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works RALEIGH (December 17, 2025) – Public schools are grappling with the negative effects of increasing segregation, and North Carolina’s expanded private school vouchers only aggravate the ...

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 ...