- BOG wants a voice in athletic conference switchesRALEIGH (January 25, 2024) – As college athletic conferences expand and contract like accordions, the UNC Board of Governors is moving to insert itself in the process. A committee of the ...Read more
- BRAD WILSON: ‘Avenues of opportunity … for everyone’RALEIGH (January 17, 2024) – To former Blue Cross Blue Shield CEO Brad Wilson, public education is simply fundamental – as a moral responsibility to our fellow citizens, to workforce ...Read more
- Wilson on vouchers: ‘We need to be very careful’RALEIGH (January 17, 2024) – State legislators like to shovel public dollars to private schools at the same time they short public schools. In the long-running Leandro case on state support ...Read more
- Guskiewicz: “Thank you, Carolina”CHAPEL HILL (January 8, 2024) – As he prepares to depart UNC-Chapel Hill to become President of Michigan State University, Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz shared the following message with the Carolina ...Read more
- A generous boost to become teachersRALEIGH (January 10, 2024) – After North Carolina started this school year with 3,500 teacher vacancies – only because schools hired 1,400 more unlicensed teachers than the year before1 – ...Read more
- Hopes for 2024RALEIGH (January 4, 2024) – The 2024 elections will be important to America – and to the future of American democracy. But they also will be vitally important to the future ...Read more
- 2023: The chaos continuesRALEIGH (December 28, 2023) – It might seem strange to complain about underfunding of public education in a year when North Carolina had a $4.8 billion budget surplus.1 But it’s true. In ...Read more
- Give Roberts a chanceRALEIGH (December 20, 2023) – Give Lee Roberts a chance. As sad and needless as the departure of Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz is, UNC-Chapel Hill and the state need Roberts to succeed ...Read more
- Don Martin: Fund vouchers, but fund public education firstBy Don Martin WINSTON-SALEM (December 7, 2023) – In 2011, I served as Superintendent of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools. At that time, the school district focused on developing every school and ...Read more
- Higher Ed Works is now Public Ed Works!RALEIGH (December 13, 2023) – Higher Ed Works is now Public Ed Works. Public Ed Works focuses on increasing residents’ knowledge of public education in North Carolina. We educate state residents about ...Read more