Two counties in North Carolina have been selected to pilot an Artificial Intelligence (AI) School Safety Program that could soon be installed in all public schools across the state to enhance security measures for student safety.
With traditional calendar school districts getting underway in late August across North Carolina, many parents might be wondering about what is and isn’t permissible for religious expression in public school classrooms. The issue has been in the news again this week due to calls from GOP superintendent of public instruction candidate Michele Morrow to begin...
A recent Heritage Foundation report raises concerns about K-12 school transgender policies that exclude parental input. The report questions state and local policies that abridge the fundamental rights of parents to direct the upbringing of their children, a pressing issue in North Carolina as the battle continues over implementing the Parents Bill of Rights. Released June 12,...
The North Carolina Board of Education recently voted to approve updates to the Healthful Living Standards for K-12 public schools, but some conservatives are wary of adjustments to the sex education components of the standards. North Carolina law requires school districts to “[t]each that abstinence from sexual activity outside of marriage is the expected standard for all...
Just this week, the law firm representing the McGhee family filed a preliminary injunction to clear Christian’s academic record. They also released new information about the case.
In September, North Carolinians will know which low-performing elementary schools will be considered for the Innovative School District in 2018 and be turned over to charter school operators. Formerly known as the Achievement School District, the Innovative School District was brought about last year by House Bill 1080, from Rep. Rob Bryan, R-Mecklenburg. It wasn’t until March of this year that the North Carolina State Board of Education hired Eric Hall, the...
Dr. Terry Stoops, John Locke Foundation vice president for research, questions the process new Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Clayton Wilcox used to hire an administrator for the school system’s culinary services. Stoops offered these comments for a July 7, 2017, report on WSOC-TV.
Dr. Terry Stoops, John Locke Foundation vice president for research, discusses factors that help improve public school teachers’ performance. Stoops offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — As the 2004 school year drew to a close, more than 11,000 North Carolina public schoolteachers packed up their books and cleaned out their classrooms for the last time. While some of them left to teach in other North Carolina schools, most were leaving the public school system for good. Caught between the growing number of veteran teachers who reach retirement age, and the exodus of disillusioned new teachers, schools struggle each fall to plug the holes left by departing staff.
