Two parents argue a Charlotte private school “hatched a plan” to expel their children after the parents started asking questions about changes in the school’s operations. Parents Doug and Nicole Turpin make that claim in their latest filing at the NC Court of Appeals.
The Wilson County school board will have to contribute another $400,000 toward a former assistant superintendent’s retirement, based on a state Court of Appeals ruling Tuesday. It’s the latest legal battle over North Carolina’s 2014 pension-spiking law.
Former Winston-Salem State University football coach Kienus Boulware hopes North Carolina’s highest court will take up the lawsuit challenging his 2019 dismissal. Boulware argues that the university failed to apply the law properly when firing him.
A lawsuit at North Carolina's second-highest court tackles the forced vaccination of a 14-year-old high school football player.
The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law is adding its support to plaintiffs challenging Greenville’s now-dismantled red-light camera enforcement program. The state’s highest court has agreed to hear a case focusing on the amount of red-light camera citation proceeds heading to local schools.
Property owners challenging school impact fees in Orange County hope the NC Supreme Court will take their case. They’re asking the court to follow the lead of a dissent from the state’s second-highest court.
The University of North Carolina System is asking a federal judge to move a sexual assault lawsuit from the state’s Western District to the Middle District. The plaintiff in the case is an expelled student who argues the university botched its investigation of assault allegations against him.
For a long time, Democrats have held a large advantage over Republicans amongst voters on the issue of education. However, that appears to have changed. A new poll conducted by Democrats for Education Reform reaffirmed a trend that has been observed in other polls, including one from Carolina Partnership for Education Reform, over the past...
Two groups representing private schools urge the N.C. Court of Appeals to uphold a ruling favoring Charlotte Latin in its legal dispute with parents of two expelled students. Parents Doug and Nicole Turpin filed a lawsuit citing their concern about Charlotte Latin's shift toward a “political culture and curriculum” in 2020-21.
A Guilford County mother urges the N.C. Court of Appeals to allow her to proceed with her lawsuit against the Guilford school board and Old North State Medical Society. The suit contends her teenage son was forced to take the COVID-19 vaccine in 2021.
A bipartisan bill is on the move in the General Assembly that would require middle and high-school students enrolled in traditional public schools to complete a career development plan.
