One CMS school board member is finally breaking their silence on accusations of repeated rape and sexual harassment on campus at Myers Park High School. This, after the board has refused to comment on the record for weeks about what appears to be a growing pattern of problems.
Discontent over how Black students, faculty and staff have been treated for years at North Carolinaβs flagship public university is reemerging after the school refused to offer tenure to a prominent investigative journalist whoβs won awards for her work on systemic racism.
Members of the Lumbee Tribal Council are calling for a Gaston County high school to remove a mascot and logo that they call an inaccurate and derogatory representation of Native American people.
Michelle Pierce, a middle school computer science teacher at Mallard Creek STEM Academy, has been selected among thousands of eligible teachers as a 2021 Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Award recipient.
βI learned about math, and I also learned about spelling my words correctly," says second-grader Sadiyya Johnson.
With less than three weeks until the next budget year, teachers in Gaston County are calling on lawmakers to put students first.
The constitutional right of North Carolinaβs children to have access to a good public school education also applies to individual students who arenβt getting help to stop classroom bullying and harassment against them, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.
With abortion and guns already on the agenda, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court is considering adding a third blockbuster issue β whether to ban consideration of race in college admissions.
As middle school teacher Brittany Paschall assembled a lesson plan on the history of the Negro Baseball Leagues, she wondered how she might have to go about it differently next year under a new Tennessee state law that prohibits teaching certain concepts of race and racism.
The Board of Education decided to postpone boundary decisions after dozens of parents expressed concerns about student assignments.
The funding dispute between the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board and Mecklenburg County Commissioners is now heading to mediation. The two sides couldn't work things out during a joint meeting held Monday.
Union County parents faced off in dueling protests before Tuesday night's school board meeting. Some say partisan politics are distracting from what should be the board's priority -- educating children.
How race and history are taught in schools is the latest flashpoint in the ongoing "culture wars." It comes as states, including North Carolina, consider laws limiting the use of "critical race theory" in education.
Governors and legislatures in Republican-controlled states across the country are moving to define what race-related ideas can be taught in public schools and colleges, a reaction to the nationβs racial reckoning after last yearβs police killing of George Floyd.
Officials with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools say they are searching for qualified teachers to staff Camp CMS this summer.
The graduation ceremony for East Lincoln High School will be moved indoors on Friday due to the possibility of a credible threat, school officials say.
Formerly Twitter
