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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Duke’s Ridge, a new affordable housing community in Charlotte’s west side will have 52 new townhomes. Four of those will be reserved for educators in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools system. -
Educators across the country are grappling with how to respond to phones’ growing impact on student attention, mental health and behavior. And there’s no real consensus on what works best. -
Some college students in western North Carolina have made their way home to families farther east. But others remain cut off from the rest of the state. The UNC system is sending aid. -
The plan was to turn the middle college programs for 11th and 12th graders at four Central Piedmont Community College campuses into early college programs that include ninth and 10th graders as well. -
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools board will consider adding new language to its harassment policy that would protect staff and students from harassment on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation. -
Magnet shuffle is approved without shifting students to Dilworth, no addition of early college seatsThe Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board voted Tuesday night to approve several changes to student assignment, mostly affecting magnet schools. But the changes did not include creating hundreds of seats in early college programs or adding more students to the already overcrowded Dilworth Elementary School.
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I’m James Farrell and, as of last week, I’m the new education reporter here at WFAE. I’m so excited to dive into this crucial beat. -
Bailey Middle School in Cornelius was evacuated and dismissed Monday after the school received a bomb threat.
