Ann Doss Helms
Education ReporterAnn Doss Helms covers education for WFAE. She was a reporter for The Charlotte Observer for 32 years, including 16 years on the education beat. She has repeatedly won first place in education reporting from the North Carolina Press Association and won the 2015 Associated Press Senator Sam Open Government Award for reporting on charter school salaries.
She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a master's in liberal arts from Winthrop University.
Reach her at ahelms@wfae.org or 704-926-3859.
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About 1,000 employees of Union County Public Schools are getting vaccinated against COVID-19 Friday and Saturday, an option that's not yet available to most frontline workers in the state. -
Iredell-Statesville Schools is getting money to boost energy efficiency in all schools and improve air quality in the oldest ones. School district officials and Iredell County commissioners say they’ll take out almost $9 million in loans to carry out a plan that Superintendent Jeff James presented this week.
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Cabarrus County Schools resumed in-person classes Tuesday amid controversy over whether it's safe during surging coronavirus cases.
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Attorneys for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board asked a judge Friday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by parents seeking a return to in-person classes.
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The school board voted 8-1 Thursday afternoon for a plan to bring pre-K, elementary and K-8 students back on that date — if the Mecklenburg County Public Health Department and school officials deem it safe.
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board meets Thursday morning to figure out a new plan for bringing students back to in-person classes. But that's only the most obvious sign of an education system thrown into turmoil by Mecklenburg County Health Director Gibbie Harris' surprise directive Tuesday.
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The directive, issued Tuesday, encouraged all county residents to stay home except for essential activities for the next three weeks in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
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Mecklenburg County Health Director Gibbie Harris issued a directive — but not an order — saying schools should go fully remote for the next three weeks because of “exponential growth” in COVID-19 cases in the community.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is scheduled to reopen all schools for in-person classes next week, for the first time since March. Tuesday night the school board will decide whether it’s safe to move ahead.
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Joe Carpenter, who spent 22 years as a Gaston County commissioner, died this week at age 84.
