Ann Doss Helms
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WFAE
A new Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools leadership team takes a new approach to presenting a budget, but tension between needs and taxes is a perennial challenge.
Mo Green for NC Superintendent of Public Instruction campaign
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Cornell Watson/For WUNCNC Promise cuts tuition to $500 per semester for some schools, while other regional universities' tuition stays in the thousands. -
Liz Schlemmer/WUNCThe university's vice provost for enrollment said UNC-Chapel Hill has yet to send out any financial aid packages to students.
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North Carolina's charter school enrollment is booming, but nine of 12 schools approved to open this August have postponed because of trouble finding buildings and recruiting students. -
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Superintendent Crystal Hill's budget plan seeks an $82.6 million bump from the county for raises, student laptops, building maintenance and other rising costs. -
A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school has been charged with felony child neglect more than a year after a 6-year-old boy brought a gun to class and shot a teacher. -
Charter school board members carry huge responsibility: More than 145,000 students attend charter schools, and North Carolina spent $986 million on charter schools last year. -
North Carolina's Charter Schools Review Board renewed a Charlotte school's funding after a state official backed down on financial discipline. They'll wait a month to decide whether to close a Kinston school. -
Duke’s collection of more than 800,000 specimens of fungi, plants and algae makes the herbarium one of the largest in the country. The move to close it has drawn criticism from faculty and researchers nationwide. -
The sweeping new proposals, if enacted, could ease student loan debt for millions of borrowers. -
Colleges don't yet trust the FAFSA data the U.S. Education Department is sending them, but there's pressure to get aid offers out to students as soon as possible. -
North Carolina teachers are leaving at higher rates, while Charlotte-area school districts are competing to hire each other's educators, a new state report shows. -
About 11.5% of North Carolina teachers left the profession last school year, including retirements. There were just over 6,000 teaching vacancies reported statewide, including classes without a fully licensed teacher.
