RALEIGH (January 30, 2025) – Contrary to a national narrative of skyrocketing tuition costs, the UNC System signaled clearly this week that it intends to hold tuition flat for the 9th straight year in 2025-26. System President Peter Hans told the UNC Board of Governors this morning that low tuition is part of the UNC… READ MORE
Teaching Fellows build their numbers
RALEIGH (January 30, 2025) – In a state with a severe teacher shortage,1 the NC Teaching Fellows made substantial gains this year, with 107% growth to a total of 575 students who want to become teachers. “We’re very excited about that. That’s a huge celebration for our program,” Dr. Bennett Jones, Director of the Teaching Fellows… READ MORE
The Assembly: The reading wars go to college
ASHEVILLE (January 23, 2025) – When Carson Bridges entered the classroom, she unknowingly joined a long-running fight about how to teach children to read. For decades, most elementary schools across the country, as well as colleges that train aspiring educators, followed a method called “balanced literacy.” The practice de-emphasizes phonics instruction, or lessons on the… READ MORE
New Trump directive to federal health & research agencies could hit NC in the pocketbook
By Rose Hoban NC Health News CHAPEL HILL (January 27, 2025) — Medical and biomedical researchers across North Carolina are used to pondering some of the most vexing questions in health and biology, but a directive issued last week by President Donald Trump left many without answers when it came to the future of their… READ MORE
The research threat to NC universities
CHAPEL HILL (January 23, 2025) – With Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, the National Institutes of Health are “in the crosshairs“ for budget cuts, declared NPR. That could take a significant toll in the Research Triangle, where UNC-Chapel Hill, NC State and Duke together receive more than $2 billion a year in federal research… READ MORE
Opportunity Scholarships: Discrimination and neglect of special-needs children
RALEIGH (January 23, 2025) – There is misinformation circulating about whether North Carolina’s taxpayer-funded Opportunity Scholarships enable schools to discriminate against applicants. Let’s set the record straight. The starting aim of the program was to provide low-income families with greater access to private education. But the program has come under increasing scrutiny for enabling private… READ MORE
Vouchers: Next step to dismantle NC public schools
By Kris Nordstrom Senior Policy Analyst, North Carolina Justice Center RALEIGH (January 16, 2025) – If your goal was to dismantle North Carolina’s public school system, how would you do it? Would you starve schools of resources? Real per-student state funding is down 3.8 percent from 2009. North Carolina’s school funding effort (education spending as… READ MORE
Gov. Stein: Open doors of opportunity to every child
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following are excerpts from new Gov. Josh Stein’s inaugural address Saturday where he addressed several education issues.1 RALEIGH (January 11, 2025) – North Carolina Strong means opening the doors of opportunity to every child. There is no better investment in our future than providing excellent pre-K so that every child starts kindergarten,… READ MORE
Inaugural food for thought
RALEIGH (January 16, 2025) – When an Inaugural Ball where you’re expecting more than 2,000 people gets postponed, what do you do with all the food you’ve ordered? Facing the snowstorm that forced postponement of Gov. Josh Stein’s inaugural festivities last weekend, the Junior League of Raleigh and Empire Eats Catering didn’t hesitate with the… READ MORE
UNC Asheville makes hustle plays to reopen
By Eric Johnson ASHEVILLE (January 16, 2025) – On Wednesday afternoon, after more than three months of empty classrooms, UNC Asheville celebrated an extraordinary return for the spring semester. Over a welcome-back dinner of tacos and nachos inside Kimmel Arena, faculty, staff, and students greeted one another, swapped harrowing stories, and settled in to watch… READ MORE
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