James Farrell

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said Thursday that they arrested a Kennedy Middle School volunteer football coach for taking indecent liberties with a student. Court records say 22-year-old Shy’mere Kavon Leroy Simms was arrested Wednesday after allegedly forcing a 13-year-old boy’s hand down his pants. The affidavit alleges Simms contacted the boy over social media. Police say the boy immediately told his family. A police affidavit states Simms was previously a behavioral technician at the boy’s school, Alexander Graham Middle School.

A new report from the group Public Schools First examines how public money is going to private schools who are allowed to prohibit certain students from enrolling.

Last school year, North Carolina officially began allowing high school student-athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness like college athletes.

A new private school opening in Charlotte this fall is making a bold claim: It says it can replace academic teachers with artificial intelligence and teach students everything they need to know in just two hours a day.

North Carolina high schools are getting ready for football season, but many schedules will look different this year after the state athletic association completed a statewide realignment earlier this spring.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools appears to be moving forward with a plan to build affordable housing for teachers.

The Department of Education released billions in already approved federal education funding after a weeks-long funding freeze prompted uncertainty.

State Attorney General Jeff Jackson was in Gastonia Tuesday, visiting a summer and after-school program that was impacted by the federal government’s recent school funding freeze.

A rundown of who filed to run for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board member Liz Monterrey Duvall said in a recent message to constituents that she wasn’t sure if she’d run for office again next year.