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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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. -
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. -
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. -
Cabarrus County Schools is implementing a temporary enrollment cap at W. R. Odell Primary School and W.R. Odell Elementary School. -
North Carolina schools saw a decrease in crimes for the third year in a row, and saw the crime rate fall by about 8% to 7.43 incidents per 1,000 students -
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools says it’s offering new grade-level instructional materials that families can access online in the event of absences due to illness, weather or other unforeseen circumstances. -
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools says it’s planning to provide more “pass-through” funding for charter schools over the next few years. That’s a reflection of data that forecasts charter school enrollment growth.
