A Wake County charter school is urging North Carolina’s highest court to reject a case related to a 13-year-old student’s off-campus suicide in 2022.
A draft state rule would let K-6 licensed teachers be assigned to grades 7 and 8. The commission reviewing it spent most of its time on shielding ed schools from the results.
The American Civil Liberties Union is supporting Cabarrus County school officials in a federal lawsuit involving biological males’ access to female restrooms at a local high school.
North Carolina ties for third in Defending Education’s first 50-state RISE rankings. The state scored highest on teacher policies, parental rights, and foreign influence, and lowest on DEI.
Helping children understand early how government decisions affect their concerns can insulate them from misleading political promises like socialism and give the trip to the polls meaning beyond the family tradition.
NC donors could give about $810 million a year under the federal Education Freedom Tax Credit, up from $573 million in a September estimate. The increase comes from Treasury rules that let married couples claim $3,400.
North Carolina scored zero of 100 points in Reason Foundation’s 2026 ranking of state open enrollment laws, tying for last for the third straight year. The state has no statewide policy, and a legislative study due in 2027 covers only within-district transfers.
Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined 23 other Democratic attorneys general in a letter calling proposed federal changes to Head Start unlawful. The letter cites no North Carolina data, and supporters of the rule say it cuts duplicative regulations and returns decisions to states.
Charter school leaders say a 2025 change in how retests count toward growth caused their growth scores to fall even as proficiency rose, and they want the state to review it. DPI says its model worked as intended and it will not recalculate the results.
A new AEI report finds students with disabilities make up 17% of private school choice enrollment nationally, above their 15% share of public schools. North Carolina's ESA+ program accounts for 5,723 of them.
De Brigard told the Carolina Journal he still has no idea who nominated him or recommended him for the famously secretive grant.
