North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signed three education bills on Friday to help address learning loss incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic and expand access to in-state tuition for military dependents whose parents were reassigned to another location.
Students can safely sit just 3 feet apart in the classroom as long as they wear masks but should be kept the usual 6 feet away from one another at sporting events, assemblies, lunch or chorus practice, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday in relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines.
Officials with the Cabarrus County Board of Education say the board voted unanimously in a meeting on Friday to approve a plan that will allow middle and high students to return to school four days a week beginning Tuesday, April 13th.
North Carolina lawmakers gave their final approval on Thursday to a directive that will put more K-12 students in classrooms five days a week by telling all districts to offer in-person instruction no later than early April.
Governor Roy Cooper and leaders of the General Assembly announced compromise legislation Wednesday during a bipartisan press conference.
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and Republican legislative leaders announced compromise legislation Wednesday that will mean more K-12 students in North Carolina will return to daily in-person instruction, some almost immediately.
Public schools in North Carolina will switch from showing the legal name of students on most state records to the chosen name of the student.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and Senate leader Phil Berger confirmed on Tuesday that they’re working toward an agreement designed to get more K-12 public schools reopened as the COVID-19 pandemic improves.
The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services told education leaders Thursday it would offer charter schools and local school districts rapid COVID-19 tests for free to help control outbreaks.
UNC Charlotte officials say 2021 graduates will have the opportunity to graduate at an outdoor in-person ceremony, with a limited number of guests allowed due to Governor Cooper's latest COVID-19 guidelines for public gatherings.
Top North Carolina education officials on Thursday called for all of the state’s 115 school districts to make available at least partial in-person instruction by the end of the month to any of the system’s 1.5 million students who want it.
Some parents have mixed reaction about their children's return to the classroom.
CMS officials say on March 1st they will increase the number of spectators allowed at outdoor athletic events after Governor Cooper's newest executive order is enacted on Friday, February 26th that eases restrictions in North Carolina.
A reassuring Superintendent Earnest Winston says the district has all the safety protocols and practices in place to welcome back the first group of middle school and high school students on Monday.
The nation’s top public health agency said Friday that in-person schooling can resume safely with masks, social distancing and other strategies, and vaccination of teachers, while important, is not a prerequisite for reopening.
Officials with Harris Teeter and the Greater Charlotte Auto Dealers Association (GCADA) say they are partnering up to provide hand sanitizer to help protect students, teachers, and staff from contracting illnesses like COVID-19, as students return to the classroom as early as Monday.
