The Office of State Human Resources has announced a solution to prevent the layoffs of 220 teachers with the N.C Virtual Public School. More than 200 teachers at NCVPS would have been left unemployed during the fall semester. The move would have complied with a state law requiring a mandatory 31-day break in service for...
[This story has been updated with additional information.] Education officials and lawmakers are scrambling to prevent the lay-offs of 220 teachers at the N.C. Virtual Public School during the upcoming fall semester. State law requires a mandatory 31-day break in service for temporary employees. As a result, 220 teachers at NCVPS won’t be allowed to...
Proponents of school choice in North Carolina have reason to cheer the state’s ninth-place ranking in the Center for Education Reform Parent Power! Index for 2017. But they may want to soften their applause, as challenges remain in providing even more parents and students with diverse educational opportunities. “When it comes to the education of their kids,...
RALEIGH — The N.C. Virtual Public School has done a poor job tracking enrollment figures, a new audit said. The report also criticized the school for failing to monitor access to its registration system, and for the absence of an independent review of enrollment data. In addition, the audit chided the school for allowing enrollment errors in its annual report.
RALEIGH — Potential charter school operators, including two that would operate online, flooded the state with 154 letters of intent to open in fall 2014, punctuating a growing appetite for alternatives to traditional public education.
RALEIGH — Virtual charter schools and other distance-learning options would be unshackled from the legal-political bind in which they remain idled if Lt. Gov.-elect Dan Forest has his way. He will sit on the State Board of Education, which sets policy for K-12 education throughout the state, and chair the 30-member eLearning Commission, which explores ways to connect students to online learning opportunities.
RALEIGH — The school is designed to increase the number of high school graduates with technical degrees. Critics say these programs are provided by the state now but few students are taking the courses.
RALEIGH — Instant messages, loud music, and spitballs have no place in the classroom, but North Carolina's rural school districts could benefit from a different type of disruption. That's the conclusion the John Locke Foundation's top education expert reaches in a new Spotlight report.
Everywhere we look, technology is transforming the way we share information. Fax machines, email, video conferences, webcams – even the instant video-sharing website, “You tube” – have the capability to take communication worldwide in a matter of seconds. And this is just the beginning.
