Ann Doss Helms
Ann Doss Helms has covered education in the Charlotte region for over 20 years, first at The Charlotte Observer, and for WFAE since 2019. She has won a regional Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting, several first place North Carolina Press Association awards for education reporting, and 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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A new report on 2023 Advanced Placement exam results shows North Carolina’s public school students are taking more tests and scoring higher than they did before the pandemic. -
Sarah Stevenson, who died Tuesday at 97, has shaped generations of Charlotteans with her leadership in education, politics and civic life.
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When police descended on Charlotte-Mecklenburg's Ardrey Kell High last week, it was an example of what North Carolina officials say is a troubling trend: False reports of school shootings and other threats are on the rise.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has no chance of meeting its 2024 goal for graduates to be ready for college and careers. The superintendent proposes reducing the goal to match the current reality.
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The details vary by location: Catawba County has Mama Bears instead of Moms for Liberty. Catawba’s book protests draw a lot of religious comments, while Mecklenburg’s strike a secular note. The two districts have different rules for challenging library and classroom material. But there are common threads to the book challenges taking place across the country.
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Book ban battles in Catawba County Schools are drawing big, intense crowds as a "Mama Bear" school board member votes on challenges she has brought.
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Watching the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board wrestle with academic goals for the next five years was exhausting, painful … and fascinating. Now they’re trying again, with a lot of new board members and top district staff.
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Some educators think only low-scoring schools can rate high on North Carolina's growth index. Providence High in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools proves them wrong.
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Fourteen schools in the Charlotte region earned perfect scores for students' growth on 2023 exams.
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board spent almost five hours Tuesday hashing out new five-year academic goals for reading, math and preparation for life after graduation.
