North Carolina's roughly $12.5 billion K-12 budget raises school spending by about $553 million, even as public-school enrollment falls by nearly 19,000 students.
Lawmakers are poised to pass a new state budget that funds Opportunity Scholarships and sets aside $1 million to administer a new federal school-choice tax credit.
A bipartisan Tulane report ranks North Carolina No. 36 of 51 states across 31 quality-of-life measures, with slipping eighth-grade reading scores among the weak spots even as math improves.
Senate Minority Leader Sydney Batch, D-Wake, defended a profanity-laced video that she called "satire" during a press conference June 11.
A June 15 release date of a new state budget from the North Carolina General Assembly has been circulating in Raleigh over the past several days. While he remains hopeful that it is true, Democratic Gov. Josh Stein said he isn’t so sure based on past experience.
NC House Democrats have unveiled two bills that would add just under $1 billion in recurring spending on pay for correctional officers, troopers, court staff, and behavioral-health treatment.
As the General Assembly gets ready to come back to Raleigh next week, Democratic Gov. Josh Stein said that while the budget framework the General Assembly created is a step in the right direction, he said he would like to see the actual budget go further when it comes to compensating public servants who "do the people’s business."
The Raleigh-Cary metro area is a top large metro for small business performance, according to a new CoworkingCafe study, trailing only Miami, Austin, and Washington, DC.
An NC Senate committee on May 13 unanimously advanced Senate Bill 990, which would study a shift to weighted K-12 funding, create a $395 educational wallet pilot, and shield campus disciplinary records from open-records requests.
Former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has expanded his lead over Republican Michael Whatley to 11 points in North Carolina's open US Senate race, according to the latest Carolina Journal poll.
More than 12,000 NC students used Opportunity Scholarships to transfer from public to private schools over the last two yeas, according to new state data.
