School Funding

State funding for school employee salaries hasn’t kept up with the cost of living in cities. Wake County Schools is struggling to keep employees, and that puts pressure on the county commission to raise local taxes.

A North Carolina Supreme Court ruling siding with the state controller means the court will revisit a school funding case in which an earlier lineup of justices issued a landmark opinion just four months ago.

Superior Court Judge James Ammons will preside over the long-running case known as "Leandro."

The North Carolina Supreme Court has issued its decision in the landmark Leandro case, ordering the state legislature to spend $1.75 billion in public school funding.

The UNC System Board of Governors is debating policies that would dramatically change how North Carolina’s public universities are funded. They are moving to a performance-based model and might raise the cap on out-of-state students at five institutions.

Lee oversaw litigation called “Leandro.” Another judge took over the case this year, a few months after Lee directed $1.75 billion in state coffers go to fund a remedial plan to help at-risk children.

Judge Michael Robinson has been charged with deciding what effect the recent state budget has on another judge's prior order that the state should provide significantly more funding for public education.

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.

A North Carolina judge has scheduled a hearing this week that could conclude with him taking the extraordinary step of ordering $1.7 billion be spent on addressing inequities in public education.

The gym at Lakewood Elementary in Durham was buzzing earlier this week with families coming to pick up math workbooks, hotspots and laptops on the…