By Art Padilla WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH (December 10, 2025) – When the Ida and William Friday Building at UNC–Charlotte was dedicated in 1982, Wilma Thornburg—Bill Friday’s elementary school teacher—sat on the platform ...

RALEIGH (December 19, 2024) – North Carolina just learned that, for the second year in a row, it ranks 48th in the nation for per-pupil funding and 49th for how ...

RALEIGH (October 4, 2024) – North Carolina legislators will soon be able to stop a massive expansion of private-school vouchers that would pose a drain on the state’s public schools. They ...

RALEIGH (September 24, 2026) – Every business leader knows that our companies are only as good as our people. But too many of us think that because North Carolina’s community ...

RALEIGH (September 18, 2024) – A debate Saturday between the candidates for North Carolina’s Superintendent of Public Instruction painted stark differences between Democrat Mo Green and Republican Michele Morrow. With little ...

RALEIGH (September 13, 2024) – Public dollars belong in public schools. So in what perverse world is it OK to divert hundreds of millions of tax dollars to private schools while ...

Dr. Robert P. Taylor Superintendent Wake County Public School System CARY (August 28, 2024) – The start of a new school year is always a time of excitement and promise. This year, as ...

RALEIGH (August 15, 2024) – Republican state legislators want to spend hundreds of millions more of our tax dollars on vouchers for students to attend private schools. Bills passed separately this ...

RALEIGH (July 11, 2024) – Amid an intense discussion of education options in North Carolina, the NC School Boards Association launched a campaign this week with a simple message: Public ...

By Mary Ann Wolf Executive Director Public School Forum of NC RALEIGH (July 3, 2024) – This year, my youngest child, Andrew, graduated from high school. And, yes, I am feeling all of ...