NC lawmakers reached a budget deal over the weekend, with votes expected this week ahead of the July 1 fiscal year.
NC's Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Education turned to teacher licensing at its June 22 meeting, where DPI official Tom Tomberlin said teachers can work an entire career without passing the state's licensing exams. Lawmakers are separately weighing a bill to loosen those requirements.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases that pit Democratic Gov. Josh Stein against the state’s Republican legislative leaders. Both cases involve state laws that removed appointment powers from the governor’s control.
The North Carolina Supreme Court will not bypass a lower court to take a second look at a New Bern eye surgeon’s challenge to the state’s certificate-of-need law.
Senate Minority Leader Sydney Batch, D-Wake, defended a profanity-laced video that she called "satire" during a press conference June 11.
Gov. Josh Stein is calling a proposed constitutional amendment to lower the state’s constitutional income tax cap from 7% to 3.5% "a con, a cynical shell game and a millionaire protection cap" that will only hurt the average North Carolinian and benefit the wealthy.
North Carolina voters could decide in 2026 whether to lower the state income tax cap from 7% to 3.5%.
The agreement includes an average 8% teacher pay raise, with legislators saying the plan would make NC’s starting teacher pay “No. 1 in the South.”
North Carolina prison officials are seeking the dismissal of a federal lawsuit challenging the state’s ban on funding for prisoners’ gender transition procedures.
NCs new Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Education held its first meeting on April 27. Gov. Josh Stein and state officials touted "historic milestones" in public schools — including a record graduation rate — even as data showed roughly 45% of students aren't proficient in reading and math.
State legislative leaders are urging a judge to reject a request that would delay the end of the 32-year-old Leandro education funding case.
