- A celebration of community a year after Helene
ASHEVILLE (September 26, 2025) – The one word people repeated over and over was ‘community.’ A three-day symposium last week organized by UNC Asheville faculty to mark the one-year anniversary of ...Read more - Schools and colleges in Western NC bounce back from HeleneBy Kate Denning Carolina Public Press ASHEVILLE (September 23, 2025) – Buncombe County Schools Superintendent Rob Jackson and Mars Hill University President Tony Floyd both used the same phrase to describe their ...Read more
- Former provost sues board at UNC-Chapel HillHILLSBOROUGH (September 22, 2025) – UNC-Chapel Hill’s former provost sued the university’s Board of Trustees Monday, saying the board repeatedly violated state open meetings and public records laws – and ...Read more
- Lessons Learned: Troubling tax cuts harm public schoolsBy Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works (RALEIGH) – While North Carolina school systems are grappling with underfunding, corporations and millionaires are paying less and less taxes. Corporate tax rates were reduced from a ...Read more
- What? NC ranked #1 for business but 48th for funding schools?By Dr. Francis P. Koster KANNAPOLIS (September 24, 2025) – On June 11 of this year, CNBC conducted a survey which ranked North Carolina (the ninth most populous state) as the ...Read more
- UNC System enrollment up; tuition might be tooRALEIGH (September 18, 2025) – Universities across the country are struggling to attract students due to shrinking birth rates. The UNC System is headed in the opposite direction. The system announced record ...Read more
- Hans on AI: Not the end of collegeEDITOR’S NOTE: Everyone is figuring out how to use or cope with artificial intelligence, including the education community. In these remarks to the UNC Board of Governors last week, UNC ...Read more
- History’s role in guiding NC studentsEDITOR’S NOTE: The State Archives of North Carolina will host a free public discussion among four distinguished UNC-Chapel Hill historians on teaching the Foundations of American Democracy from 5:30-7 pm ...Read more
- Lessons Learned: NC struggles to recruit and retain teachersBy Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works RALEIGH (September 17, 2025) – Thousands of teachers leave North Carolina classrooms every year – and legislators ignoring the needs of educators could be to blame. Low ...Read more
- Lessons Learned: NC leaves young learners behindBy Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works RALEIGH (September 10, 2025) – Legislators’ refusal to properly fund education even affects our youngest learners in North Carolina. Research shows pre-kindergarten can be a crucial stage ...Read more
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