Reporting has shown how easy it can be to found a private schools. That led us to an experiment: Could we do it?

Reporting has shown how easy it can be to found a private schools. That led us to an experiment: Could we do it?

Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...

Enrollment in credit recovery grew 13% nationwide in the years following the pandemic, according to a Chalkbeat analysis. While the courses keep students on track to graduate, experts warn they may sa...

Thousands of N.C. students are getting college credits, professional certifications, and even degrees while they’re still in high school. By 2028, Durham Public Schools hopes a quarter of its graduate...

A new Wake County program is testing an apprenticeship model to help instructional assistants get the training they need to lead a classroom.

Education staff are being scattered across several other federal agencies. Despite the Trump administration's claims, employees say it's adding bureaucracy and making it harder to serve students.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — In July 1979, a North Carolina Ku Klux Klan leader named Joe Grady summoned two FBI agents to a Waffle House to warn them “about possible violence in the future.”Earlier that month,...

After four months of public deliberation and some additional concessions from the state’s largest hospital system, commissioners voted 5-2 for changes that will allow the deal to go through.

From wages and taxes to schools, housing, health care, and crime, here's where North Carolina has gained—and lost—ground since 2010, by the numbers.

After an extended fight over disclosing the records, the state has been ordered to cover attorney fees.

An overview of California’s proposed local journalist employment credit for newsrooms, explaining how the program works, who qualifies, and the safeguards designed to prevent misuse.

In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.

Participants debated possible causes of grade inflation and potential solutions at the Chapel Hill gathering.

Test scores are up in both counties, with particular progress at N.C. A&T University’s A&T Four Middle College.

Our 2026 election guide gives North Carolina voters important information about key dates, registering to vote, and candidates.

This week, the state released the results of end-of-year exams public school students took last spring, and it was a very good year for Wake County Public Schools.

As Anita Earls runs for re-election to the state Supreme Court, here's what her dissents tell us about her judicial philosophy.

On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.

Ninth graders in N.C. are held back more often than students in other parts of the country. How can schools ensure they're ready to move on?

From Dolly to Doc Watson, Sugar Hill Records played a big role shaping American roots music. The legacy its founder built lives on.

More than a decade of data from schools across the U.S. shows stark divides in who is held back: Boys are more likely than girls to repeat a grade, and Black boys are held back at nearly three times the rate of white boys. Overall, schools are holding back fewer students than they were more than a decade ago, according to data from 2011-12 to 2021-22 analyzed by Big Local News at Stanford University, in partnership with The Hechinger Report. Despite retention rates falling, the gap between Black boys and white boys stayed consistent.

The median college GPA has been rising at many schools across the state. It's not clear what's causing grade inflation—or if it matters.

The Assembly and other outlets sued to release the report under public records laws. The court ruled in the university’s favor.

Ninth graders in N.C. are held back more often than students in other parts of the country. How can schools ensure they're ready to move on?

The rate at which students are held back a grade has fallen. But there's a growing divide on when the intervention is most effective.

The repeal, found in the newly passed budget, eliminates a key tool used to uncover patterns involving police agencies and individual officers, some experts said.

Pine Springs Preparatory Academy, an independent charter school, will have its inaugural ninth grade class starting this fall, nestled among Holly Springs’ growing biotech companies.

Wake has hired a trans music teacher. Rep. Erin Paré objects to the teacher’s attire.

Public school leaders and advocates say the state should revamp the way it pays for exceptional children’s programs.

The Assembly Network's teams in the Triangle, Greensboro, and statewide won a total of eight awards for stories published last year.

Organizers did away with the Azalea Belles, a tradition many felt glorified the antebellum, in 2020. Now some want to bring it back.

The government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president’s new Air Force One. The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas.

Granville County has emerged as a leader as N.C. parents and administrators consider new limits on tech in schools.

County sheriffs and jail administrators say growing jail populations are outpacing space and staffing.

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Only 13 of North Carolina's 115 school districts ban cellphones all day for every grade level. Many allow cellphone use outside class.

After unmasking extremist groups, reporter Jordan Green got a first-hand look at how the ‘militant accelerationism’ movement operates.

A report by the U.S. Department of Education is the latest to raise concerns about special education in North Carolina, which families and advocates for thousands of students with disabilities have lo...

The accounting professor has conducted analyses of more than 100 colleges’ finances. He often concludes that campuses are on more stable ground than administrators claim.

Studies have found districts tend to close minority-serving schools first. The closure of a Bladen County school highlights the impact.

The Assembly's Higher Education team gathered in Greensboro to discuss three-year degrees with readers.

The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”

Brown University leaders’ response to the alleged cheating incident has been “meek,” the professor said.

Granville County has emerged as a leader as N.C. parents and administrators consider new limits on tech in schools.