As recently as 2019, North Carolina schools ranked seventh in the country in value-added performance. In 2024, we were 32nd.
The nation's 9-year-olds posted their first significant academic gains since the pandemic, with reading scores back to pre-pandemic levels on the latest NAEP long-term trend assessment.
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NC's Opportunity Scholarship voucher program now serves 106,863 students at nearly $589 million, and newly released state data show two-thirds of those dollars still go to lower-income families.
The NC House Education Committee on May 19 advanced a proposed constitutional amendment that would make the elected superintendent of public instruction the voting chair of the State Board of Education and replace 11 governor-appointed seats with members elected from legislatively drawn districts.
A new Harvard-Stanford-Dartmouth scorecard ranks North Carolina ninth nationally in math recovery since 2022 but just 22nd in reading, with the average student now reading roughly two-thirds of a grade level behind 2019 despite the state's 2021 science-of-reading law.
An NC Senate committee on May 13 unanimously advanced a bill that which would create the state's first systematic K-8 math intervention program, modeled on Read to Achieve.
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.
A North Carolina Senate committee on April 29 advanced Senate Bill 840, which would scrap the Praxis Core entrance exam for teacher preparation programs, loosen the licensure exam timeline, and ease the path for out-of-state teachers seeking NC licensure.
North Carolina education policy critics say Superintendent Mo Green's new "Achieving Educational Excellence" strategic plan pays too little attention to whether students are actually learning, with its eight guiding pillars largely silent on the core test score benchmarks that measure grade-level proficiency in reading and math. The critique comes as state and national data show NC students still lagging behind pre-COVID academic levels.
Gov. Josh Stein's recommended state budget would phase out North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program by halting new awards and imposing an income cap of roughly $90,000 for a family of four. That would strip scholarships from an estimated 60,000 of the program's 106,789 current recipients.
