Border Patrol agents are in Raleigh as the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration blitz continues. Follow for live updates.

NC Gov. Josh Stein vetoes a bill allowing a school voucher tax credit and signs a stopgap state budget, while criticizing it.

The North Carolina Center for Resilience and Learning seeks to normalize teacher self-care, especially after trauma or disaster.

From teacher raises to school choice, here's a look at education bills filed in the 2025 session of the North Carolina state legislature.

NC justices uphold appellate decision questioning military ballots, overturn on 61,000 others. Appeal goes to federal court.

Rachel Candaso, a Pitt County Schools middle school teacher, was named the 2025 Burroughs Wellcome Fund North Carolina Teacher of the Year.

Now that we have passed the bill filing deadlines for both the House and Senate, over 130 K12 education bills have been filed this session in the NC General Assembly. […]

Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin won a challenge against more than 60,000 ballots at the state Court of Appeals, but the order in his favor is blocked from going into place while it's appealed.

The majority wrote that, even though they have the authority to completely throw out the contested ballots, they decided to instead mandate a cure period for most of the challenged voters.

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The Public School Forum of North Carolina is seeking talented high school student artists to create original artwork celebrating our 40th anniversary. This is a paid opportunity for creative students ...

The North Carolina budgeting process for the 2025-27 biennium officially kicked off this week with the release of Governor Josh Stein’s proposed budget, which outlines his priorities for education pol...

According to various reports, President Trump will likely soon issue an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education. This is a threat to the future of public education nationwide […]

Every day in North Carolina, over 10,000 school buses safely transport more than 620,000 students to and from school.

Read to find House committees pertaining to education and their members, along with the leadership and staff of the speaker of the House.

Read to find Senate committees pertaining to education and their members and leadership, and the Senate president pro tempore's staff.

Local School Finance at a Glance School Funding Disparities In recent years, our annual studies have consistently identified several key trends that have led to deepened educational inequity across di...

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As a nonpartisan organization, the Public School Forum of North Carolina has maintained only one bias since our founding nearly 40 years ago: we believe in the value of public […]

With the smell of scrambled eggs and bacon in the air, the N.C. education community talked policy. Read the highlights here.