Vote Likely To Be Close On Wake School Bond
The Marching Trojans from Garner Magnet High School aren’t marching this morning – they are sitting, and practicing, in the band room. Their bags and instrument cases are stacked in every corner of the...
View ArticleVoters Decide Bonds' Fate Today
Voters in Wake County and Raleigh have two major bonds to decide on when they go to the polls today. The $810-million Wake School Bond has been dissected and argued over for months. Supporters say it...
View ArticleBig Night For Bonds In Wake, Raleigh
Wake County voters have overwhelmingly passed an $810-million school bond referendum. The final margin wasn't even close. Wake voters approved of the new school bond by 16 percentage points. It was a...
View ArticleTeachers Demonstrating Against New Policies With 'Walk-in'
Teachers are gathering outside of schools across the state Monday in protest.The “teacher walk-in” is being staged before and after the school day by those who feel disrespected by changes to education...
View ArticleTeachers "Walk-In" For More Respect, Resources
Roger Schultz is a teacher. For 20 years, he’s taught severely handicapped students. Today, he’s standing outside Riverside High School, doing what he normally does – greeting every bleary-eyed,...
View ArticleMcCrory Creates Teacher Advisory Committee
Governor Pat McCrory is seeking the advice of two-dozen teachers in developing education policy. The Governor's Teacher Advisory Committee met for the first time - a day after educators across the...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Teacher Project - An Overview
The pressure on North Carolina’s 95,000 classroom teachers is mounting. Inside the classroom, teachers wrestle with an increase in child poverty, implementing the new Common Core curriculum, and...
View ArticleHow We Got Here: Teaching In North Carolina
Alice Battle was already a veteran teacher when integration finally came to North Carolina.Thirteen years after Brown v. Board of Education, she was peering out the window of her second-floor...
View ArticleWhere We Are Now: Teaching In North Carolina
Earlier this year, as the North Carolina General Assembly was just beginning its session, Senate Leader Phil Berger stood before the media to explain what he hoped to accomplish. Not surprisingly, much...
View ArticleWhere We Are Going: Teaching In North Carolina
Education is the family business for the Von Eitzens. Ben and Beth have been at it for about a decade; he’s a high school science teacher, she’s a guidance counselor. From all appearances, they had it...
View ArticleTraining Teachers: Schools Of Ed Produce Effective Teachers, Face Declining...
Exams are looming for the freshmen students in ED 100, the introductory class in NC State’s School of Education. But instead of looking stressed or worried, the first-year education majors have a...
View ArticleTraining Teachers: Mid-Career Teachers Bring Experience To Classroom
Marci Harvey never dreamed of being a teacher. She was a scientist - a recent graduate of the Ph.D. program at the University of South Carolina - when she got married and moved to the Triad and found...
View ArticleTraining Teachers: Teach For America Draws Praise, Criticism
Teaching may be in Ethan Tillman’s blood – his mother is a teacher in Charlotte - but in college at the University of South Carolina, he dreamed of being a television reporter.But a few months after...
View ArticleTraining Teachers: The Growing Political Influence Of Teach For America In NC
Rob Bryan might not have needed the help. As the chairman of the Mecklenburg County Republican Party, he was well-positioned to run against, and defeat, a Democratic incumbent for a seat in the State...
View ArticleTeachers Fight Over Loss Of Tenure, New Contracts
There are 95,000 public school teachers in North Carolina, give or take. So how many, given their only chance to comment publicly on the end of tenure, would make their way to downtown Raleigh to voice...
View ArticleRepublicans Plan To Pay Some NC Teachers More, Democrats Scoff
Republican leaders in North Carolina have announced a plan to increase teacher compensation. It would raise the starting salary for new teachers, making North Carolina much more competitive in what it...
View ArticlePay Cuts, End Of Tenure Put North Carolina Teachers On Edge
Teacher salaries are losing ground fast in North Carolina.Jennifer Spivey has been a teacher for three years at South Columbus High School, on the north side of the border between the Carolinas. She's...
View ArticleRepublicans Hope Salary Increases Ease Teacher Turnover
Diane Ravitch is an education historian. She’s also a best-selling author and hugely influential on social media. In the past few years, she’s also become the champion for traditional public school...
View ArticleStorm Forces Drivers To Abandon Vehicles, Set Out On Foot
The snow began falling in the Triangle around noon, causing many who were still at work to quickly head out on the roads. That caused major gridlock across the region. Hundreds if not thousands of...
View ArticleStranded At Southpoint, Employees Make The Best Of It
A normal Wednesday night at the Streets at Southpoint mall is a swirling mass of activity. Shoppers. Diners. Teenagers on escalators. But this Wednesday was not a normal night.“Everybody seemed fine...
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