North Carolina's charter school law ranks seventh strongest in the nation in the 2026 scorecard from the Center for Education Reform.
A bill the General Assembly ratified Aug. 6 creates a 15-member commission to redesign North Carolina's high schools, giving four private organizations seats on it along with the job of staffing it and drafting its reports. The State Board of Education has no appointments at all.
North Carolina's Office of Charter Schools has nobody on staff who can evaluate a virtual charter school, its executive director told the State Board of Education on Aug. 5, even as remote charter academies nearly double to 19 this fall.
DPI marked year one of Mo Green's strategic plan with four record results, all of which predate the plan. The dashboard it launched sets a 2030 goal of 60% proficiency.
A new survey from the NC Department of Public Instruction shows a broad decline in violence and drug use among public school students.
Since 2013, the Nation's Report Card has asked North Carolina students who lives at home with them. It has never reported how those students perform, an omission flagged in a July report from the American Enterprise Institute.
A new national analysis estimates that nearly 1.7 million NC children meet the income and enrollment criteria to receive scholarships under the federal Education Freedom Tax Credit, which takes effect in 2027.
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A state commission appointed by Gov. Josh Stein and Republican legislative leaders is converging around a major teacher-pay overhaul. The Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Education is also weighing a statewide K-3 reading curriculum, mandatory summer literacy camps, and restoring TeachNC.
NC DPI has issued the first statewide guidance on classroom screen time, but it stops short of setting a maximum screen time level for any grade level.
NCs most expensive private schools take no money at all from the state's voucher program, a CJ analysis of disbursement data found.
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