NC Schools

North Carolina health officials on Thursday eased guidance for K-12 schools that had directed students and staff to often stay home for five days if they were in close contact with someone who tests positive for COVID-19.

Two of the big buzzwords in education lately are "learning loss" and "teacher shortages." Since the pandemic began, the General Assembly has invested resources into a new nonprofit that could help address both those issues.

Educators will see more money in their paychecks this year from a combination of raises, bonuses and a new county-based supplement for teacher pay.

The largest school system in North Carolina said none of its students went hungry on Tuesday despite a sickout by school cafeteria workers demanding better pay and improved working conditions.

A North Carolina judge has ordered state officers to transfer $1.7 billion from reserves in the state general fund to support an improvement plan for public education within 30 days.

Systems expect spending pace to pick up with major ventilation, other, projects planned, but supply and demand is already delaying work.

In a year that opened with two school shootings, North Carolina officials and national anti-violence experts spoke to a safe schools task force about reducing gun violence.

Far fewer North Carolina third-graders in public schools have demonstrated reading proficiency, compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic, a troubling finding that state educators said needs to be urgently addressed.

The North Carolina Watchdog Reporting Network examined COVID-19 policies in North Carolina’s school districts as we approach two months into this new year. And they found wide disparities in the way that districts across the state are choosing to protect their students.