James Farrell
Education ReporterJames Farrell is WFAE's education reporter. Farrell has served as a reporter for several print publications in Buffalo, N.Y., and weekend anchor at WBFO Buffalo Toronto Public Media. Most recently he has served as a breaking news reporter for Forbes.
Farrell has an undergraduate degree from Boston College and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism.
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The North Carolina State Board of Education has approved its annual list of funding request priorities ahead of the General Assembly’s short session in April. -
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education voted to turn two pre-planned early release days — Feb. 11 and April 29 — into full instructional days. -
North Carolina schools saw a decrease in crimes for the third year in a row last school year, according to the latest numbers from the state Department of Public Instruction. -
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will return to a regular schedule Thursday, ending a nearly two-week period of cancellations, remote learning days and delayed openings prompted by recent winter weather. -
CMS will go remote again on Wednesday, Feb. 4.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has delayed or canceled in-person classes in response to winter weather for seven straight school days. So will all those missed days mean more school days added later? -
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will cancel classes again Tuesday after this weekend’s historic snow storm. -
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will operate on a two-hour delay Friday. It is the fifth consecutive day that CMS has altered its operations following a winter storm last weekend. -
More than 700 days after the North Carolina Supreme Court last heard arguments in the nearly 32-year-old Leandro school funding case, there’s still no ruling. -
It will be the fourth consecutive day where this past weekend’s winter weather has impacted operations, following a full closure on Monday and two remote learning days.
