Local public school superintendents are trying to determine just how last week’s state Supreme Court ruling striking down a case that helped fund poorer school systems, like those in Sampson…

A top House Republican lawmaker said teacher pay will be a top priority as lawmakers head into the short session.

A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs.

NPR asked researchers, advocates, tax experts, a parent and a public school leader for their thoughts on this first-of-its-kind national voucher plan. Here's what they said.

North Carolina’s future depends on the quality of its education system. Lawmakers must prioritize funding to ensure all students have a chance to succeed.

The six students at N.C. A&T impacted by the cuts to the program will still be able to earn their degrees.

The Abecedarian Project, a decades-long research project that has followed Black children through adulthood, has found that some of the early cognitive benefits for girls lasted longer than they did f...

Jon Valant examines how the proposed federal tax-credit scholarship program can be plagued by fraud and discriminatory practices.

Religious groups and faith leaders are speaking out against a federal school voucher program under consideration in the U.S. House.

North Carolina's average teacher salary is ranked below neighboring states, and is about $14,000 less than the national average.

Superintendent Robert Taylor is proposing a budget increase but also wants to cut $18 million, including some counselors.

The efforts come in wake of a successful push by conservative activists, in a lawsuit that revolved around UNC-Chapel Hill, to also ban affirmative action in universities across the country.

Legislation would create new rules for public school library books, including removing the exemption that kept school employees from being prosecuted.

“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.

Proposed legislation in Washington would combine school vouchers with a tax shelter for wealthy donors. What could possibly go wrong?

It’s unfathomable that the Civil Rights Act is being invoked to ban DEI and denounce “reverse racism” by the Department of Education

The budget reconciliation provision would raise eligibility requirements for low-income schools and districts to serve free meals to all students.

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School voucher advocates say it's a civil rights issue, while critics warn the programs elsewhere have led to significant achievement decline.

The chair of an association of top Tennessee business executives is calling for major changes to Gov. Bill Lee’s school voucher proposal headed before state lawmakers in a special session this week.

This report examines Commonwealth Charter Academy’s check registers (obtained through Right to Know requests) from the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years. Our examination reveals more than $4 millio...

Two out of three recipients of Gov. Bill Lee's school voucher program would come from private schools, according to the Legislature's Fiscal Review Committee.

Private letters reveal the strategy behind the decadeslong quest — successful in 12 states and counting — by politicians, church officials and activists to make taxpayer-funded school vouchers availab...

Public subsidies for private education is likely to be one of the most contested topics this session.

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North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...