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In Charlotte, cranes dot the skyline and “For Rent” signs line busy corridors — but for many college students, those signs signal competition rather than opportunity. The city continues to grow at one of the fastest rates in the United States. But that growth has come with a cost: rising rent, shrinking availability and increased corporate ownership of housing.
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James Farrell / WFAEAn abandoned CMS building beside Collinswood Language Academy in south Charlotte has become a growing concern for parents, who say evidence of trespassing, drug use and a recent police call involving a gun show the site poses a danger to students. -
Kate Denning/Carolina Public PressGap in male enrollment due to fewer seeking to go to NC colleges, but their reasons are complex and there’s no clear agreement on solutions.
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Starting in 2020, all North Carolina schools were required to use a framework called Multi‑Tiered Systems of Support, or MTSS, to help identify struggling students. But some families and advocates say the system is creating delays for children who need special education services. -
Students in and out of the state can expect to pay anywhere from 2% to 10% more to attend the state's universities -
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools formally presented its proposal to overhaul its school choice program at Tuesday night's school board meeting. Now, the school board will start the process of getting community feedback ahead of a potential vote in May. -
Sunday marked two years since the Leandro school funding case was last heard in court — and the state Supreme Court still has not issued a decision. It’s the latest delay in a case that goes back to 1994 — and nobody really knows what the holdup is. -
Keeping students off their devices is the new norm in many schools. We talked to students and educators at one Kentucky school to see how it's working. -
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is trying to increase scores on the DIBELS exam, a test that measures early literacy skills for students in kindergarten through third grade. One school is trying out a new strategy: teaching families how they can help prepare their children. -
Public education advocates gathered in Raleigh on Wednesday urging the North Carolina Supreme Court to end its two-year silence on the long-running Leandro school funding case. -
On average, North Carolina is slightly ahead of the rest of the country in terms of getting kids ready for kindergarten – but children from lower-income families are lagging behind their peers, new federal data shows. -
The trainings are part of a statewide initiative to address staffing shortages in the child care field. -
New data from the U.S. Education Department show the extent of international gifts and contracts to colleges and universities.
