RALEIGH (April 23, 2026) – State legislators returned to Raleigh for their so-called “short” session this week with some very basic jobs to finish. Here’s what they need to do: Adopt a ...

By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works (RALEIGH) –  Several nonprofits and concerned citizens gathered in front of the NC General Assembly Tuesday just hours before the start of the new session to ...

By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works CHAPEL HILL (April 23, 2026) – Former Coach Anson Dorrance of the UNC-Chapel Hill women’s soccer team and his daughter, Natalie Dorrance Harris, a school librarian, ...

By Tom Oxholm RALEIGH (April 16, 2026) – There is a crisis in North Carolina of underfunding our public schools (including Charters). Consider these facts: •NC is 50th in the country in ...

By Eric Johnson MORGANTON (April 16, 2026) – For North Carolina’s public universities, the balance between idealism and pragmatism was baked in from the beginning. The state’s original constitution calls for ...

MORGANTON (April 16, 2026) – At a time when enrollment is shrinking at colleges across the country due to demographic trends, the UNC System has an extraordinary story to tell ...

MORGANTON (April 16, 2026) – For a UNC Board of Governors meeting today, the NC School of Science and Mathematics produced a video to celebrate astronaut Christina Koch, an NCSSM ...

RALEIGH (April 9, 2026) – There’s been an upheaval in leadership of North Carolina’s General Assembly with the defeat of longtime Senate leader Phil Berger in a primary that spanned ...

By Burley Mitchell Chief Justice Emeritus, NC Supreme Court CHARLOTTE (April 9, 2026) – As Chief Justice of North Carolina, I wrote the 1997 Leandro opinion for the state Supreme Court. There we ...

By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works CHARLOTTE (April9, 2026) – UNC Charlotte leaders are trying to solve the teacher shortage by removing financial barriers for aspiring educators. Statewide, the NC Educator Preparation Program ...