Board member Sam Hershey said last week that "mediocre white men" have been hired based on their skin color for the last 250 years, drawing attention from Elon Musk and prompting an apology.
North Carolina Rep. David Rouzer, R-07, introduced a bill last week in the US House to eliminate the Department of Education, a move that Republican leaders have floated for years amid ongoing criticism of the federal government's influence in the public school systems.
Legislators in the North Carolina General Assembly are expected to consider a new statute that would expand students' rights to appeal school suspensions, following outrage over a public school suspending a student for saying the word ‘illegal alien.'
A legal watchdog located in Asheville, NC filed two civil rights complaints this week for discriminating against students based on skin color.
Lawmakers aren’t likely to split up North Carolina’s largest school districts any time soon. The Joint Legislative Study Committee on the Division of Local School Administrative Units briefly met Wednesday, April 11, to unanimously approve a draft report documenting its findings. The draft report didn’t recommend breaking up large districts, such as Wake County or...
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